Serious accidents involving fatalities and high economic impact have regularly resulted in protracted discussion of tunnel safety in the event of fire...
The drainage system of Mexcico City's metropolitan region is no longer sufficient to maintain an adequate water discharge, especially due to the increasingly unfavourable gradient of the Emisor Central wastewater tunnel, caused by the sinking process. To back up the old drainage system the construction of the Tunel Emisor Oriente (TEO), with a length of 62 km and an average diameter of 7 m began in 2008. The work schedule for the tunnel has a final completion date of June 2015.
In Russia’s capital city of more than 12 million people, the average Muscovite has become accustomed to daily commutes of two hours or more. To ease...
From May 9th to May 15th 2014, Brazil will be the focus of the international tunnelling community. The country and the whole Latin American region have already called the world‘s attention due to the expansion in infrastructure and the number of ongoing projects involving tunnels.
The execution of underground works requires an early assessment of all risks going along with the planning phase and its comprehensive control during construction to establish acceptable levels of security. This is achieved by placing a sensor network to register a series of values of the most significant parameters of the machines – TBMs and auxiliary tools – geotechnical measurements and existing structures that may be affected during progression of works.
Based on more than 50 years of experience and the technological know-how of a leading provider of concrete pumping and placing equipment, Putzmeister...
CBE Group designs, manufactures and assembles segment moulds for concrete tunnels, handling equipment and segment precast plants worldwide.The range...
For more than 20 years, NFM Technologies has been designing and manufacturing large diameter tunnel boring machines ranging from 4 m to more than 15...
In 2013 Normet introduced concrete spraying simulators for machine-operator training. There are different versions available from just laptop display...
The Südbahn represents a significant inner-Austrian railway link and is at the same time a part of the pan-European Corridor VI from the Baltic states...
The STUVA team would like to wish Prof. Martin Ziegler all the best on the occasion of his 60th birthday at the end of February. We take avail of this...
Start of construction and construction halted in the same month: work on the first contract section of the Semmering Base Tunnel had scarcely begun in...
In December 2013, a 4.3 m (14.1 ft) Robbins Double Shield TBM broke through according to plan after boring a 9.3 km (5.8 mi) tunnel in Turkey’s Adana...
One of the biggest urban European infrastructure projects was completed in 2013, ten years after work started on building the 1.5 km long Leipzig City...
The InnoTrans Fair will take place in Berlin again from September 23 to 26 and this time around there’s something to celebrate: for the 10th time the...
Crossrail is currently Europe’s largest infrastructure project – from Maidenhead and Heathrow in the west to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east of...
