Issue 07/2011

The metre-gauge Zentralbahn (zb) is being provided with a more efficient infrastructure with several tunnels in Lucerne in the form of a twin-track...

Both exhibitors and visitors were again of the opinion that Innovation Underground was once again able to prove itself as a focal point for the...

New Research Project “Accessible Crossing Points on Main Traffic Arteries” The Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Urban Development (BMVBS)...

The former diploma course at the RWTH in civil engineering has now also been replaced by the consecutive Bachelor/Master course of studies. The Master...

At present, the government of the city and island state of Singapore is massively expanding its transportation network to be able to do justice to...

Once completed, the new Albania-Kosovo Highway will link Kosovo with the seaport of Durres on the Adriatic Sea, crossing Albania. The travel route...

The Pörzberg Tunnel at Schaala in Thuringia is a comparatively small tunnel. Notwithstanding here too the highest safety requirements must be...

The metro tunnels in St. Petersburg are running very deep. Several of the stations on the system had not been taken into service, because construction...

Redevelopment of the ceiling of the historic Metro Station Fehrbelliner Platz in Berlin calls for a high degree of precision. Cracks and spalling had...

The Swiss Tunnelling Society (FGU) within the Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA) held its 10th congress (June 8 + 9, 2011) once again in...

Prof. Bernhard Maidl, Dr.-Ing. E.h. Martin Herrenknecht, Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Maidl, Dr.-Ing. Gerhard Wehrmeyer, 2nd completely revised and amended...