On 18 March 2024, the official tunnel breakthrough of the 2nd tube of the Karawanken Tunnel between Austria and Slovenia took place. This marks the completion of the tunnelling work on the 7.9 km long...
The second tunnel boring machine (TBM) building the HS2 high-speed railway line’s Chiltern Tunnel broke through at the tunnel’s northern portal on 21 March 2024, completing a journey that began in...
The Rudolf Fettweis plant in the Murg Valley in Baden-Württemberg will be converted from a storage and run-of-river power plant into a pumped storage power plant by 2027 – a milestone in the energy...
InnoTrans is the leading international trade fair for transport technology, which takes place every two years in Berlin. The 14th InnoTrans will take place at the Berlin ExpoCenter City exhibition...
Half-time at the Grand Paris Express project. The manufacturer Tsurumi has been supplying dewatering pumps right from the beginning. Now heavy-duty KTZ pumps are being added.The ambitious...
Large-scale projects involve a high investment volume, a high degree of uncertainty and extended delivery schedules. A digital project risk twin is an advantage in this regard, allowing uncertainties...
Metro Line 3 in Panama is setting new standards for public infrastructure projects in Latin America. And that’s not only because this project is the largest construction project since the expansion of...
For the systematic analysis of a large number of settlement measurements of international tunnel projects with different project boundary conditions regarding TBM type, tunnel diameter, depth of the...
The Swiss Tunnelling Society (STS) organizes annually the Swiss Tunnel Congress (STC) in Lucerne. Over the years, the STC has developed into the main congress for tunnelling experts in Switzerland. On...
The STUVA-YEP general meeting on the evening before the STUVA Conference is by now a fixed date in the calendar for many young engineers. Thanks to the support of the Department of Concrete and...
In February 2024, Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Ziegler celebrated his 70th birthday. Given his vitality, that number is quite hard to believe. Wasn‘t it just “yesterday” that his 60th birthday was...
