With a schedule of just less than two years of construction time, the ASFINAG started on the upgrading of the Plabutsch Tunnel on the A 9 Pyhrn Autobahn in Austria in December 2017. The tunnel is...
From April 20–26, 2018, the World Tunnel Congress will take place at the International Convention and Exhibition Center in Dubai, UAE. The organizers, the national Society of Engineers – UAE and its...
An important milestone for the 4 m corridor: On 29 November 2017, the tunnel boring machine broke through the last few metres of the Bözberg in Effingen. Due to the presence of unstable rock at the...
The 12th conference on shotcrete with parallel exhibition will take place at the Alpbach Congress Centrum in Tyrol, Austria, on January 11–12, 2018. Conference chair is Prof. Wolfgang Kusterle, topics of the conference will be: ...
For more than 25 years, the company MAT Mischanlagentechnik has supplied the latest mixing and separation plants, also for complex and challenging projects. On the large Eppenberg Tunnel project in...
The company formerly known under the name Erket from Hämbach, Germany, showed under their new name Kemroc at the STUVA-Expo in Stuttgart at the start of December. Some examples from their product...
Superlatives are commonplace in tunnelling. Records are regularly established at some place or other around the globe. Tubes many kilometres in length penetrate mountain ranges, deep under the earth...
The road maintenance department of the municipal cleaning services in the French capital – Propreté de Paris – have been working for several years working with the Mercedes-Benz Unimog. To this end...
The Bergmann 5025 has shown its worth for huge projects such as Stuttgart 21 and the Brenner Base Tunnel. Now the specialists from Meppen, Germany, have also presented their top product to a wider...
Companies often find themselves stretched to their limits in foundation engineering, mining and below ground. Whether it’s excessively low halls, bridges or tunnels, construction measures simply...
A bottleneck exists between Gretzenbach and Wöschnau as the sole remaining twin-track section on the Berne–Olten–Zurich rail route. The SBB intends eliminating the Olten–Aarau bottleneck by the end of...
For more than 35 years the STUVA has carried out a survey of tunnelling in Germany prompted by a corresponding request by the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association [1].
In order to ensure the highest degree of safety in underground transport facilities, integrated technical solutions in combination with constructional fire protection can be of assistance. Solutions...
This year’s Geomechanics Colloquium held by the Austrian Society for Geomechanics (ÖGG) from October 12 to 13, 2017 in Salzburg was again one of the top events in its field in the German-language...
The Tunnelling Pocketbook is a practice-related guide for clients, designers and contractors. The current 2018 edition deals with numerous contributions referring to projects, divided up into various...
