The Indian mass-transit operator Metro Link Express for Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad (MEGA) has commissioned Siemens to electrify a 39.2 km metro line (Ahmedabad Metro Rail Project Phase 1) in the Indian...
On the 2017 Christmas weekend, Egyptian President H.E. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi inaugurated very significant development projects at the Suez Canal. These included two gigantic twin-tube road tunnels...
Implenia, in partnership with Norwegian infrastructure construction company Risa AS, has won a contract from energy company Agder Energi. The consortium will build a dam and a new transfer tunnel for...
Major construction work has begun on Victoria’s multi-billion dollar West Gate Tunnel in Melbourne. CPB Contractors was selected by road operator Transurban and the State Government of Victoria as the...
Nepal welcomed its first TBM ever in summer 2017: a 5.06 m diameter Double Shield machine for the Bheri Babai Diversion Multipurpose Project (BBDMP). The Robbins TBM underwent its factory acceptance...
Whoever thinks that the InnoTrans is only concerned with trains and tracks can learn otherwise from 18 to 21 September 2018. The world’s leading trade fair for railway transport technology has now...
Tunnels are technically complex to produce and represent cost-intensive infrastructure projects. Their technical qualities must be maintained in order to ensure that the mobility of traffic is assured...
Currently in the south-east of the Dutch capital The Hague the Rotterdamsebaan road project is being tackled at a cost of some 272 million euros, almost ten years after the Hubertus Tunnel was opened....
Along the majestic scenery of northern Norway, PNC Nordic Construction Norge (PNC) since autumn 2016 are creating a new road that will travel through two mountains and over one lake. It’s the first...
The 419 m long Krohnstiegtunnel is a road tunnel running under the runway of the Hamburg Airport. It offers passage for vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists. Since the tunnel was equipped with advanced...
The following companies joined the STUVA during the second half of 2017:New Environmental Technology GmbH, Mannheim (Germany)FBI GmbH, Geislingen (Germany)Ring – Consultancy in Tunnelling, Stockdorf...
For a long time the date had been marked in red in the calendar of many engineers. For after all, the STUVA had issued an invitation to come to Stuttgart from December 6 to 8, 2017 – to attend the...
What would the STUVA Conference be without the traditional gala evening? The event has been numbered among the highlights of the STUVA Conference for many years. After all the relaxed and intimate...
During the construction of the Tunnel de Champel in Geneva, MasterEase from Master Builders Solutions proved to be a well suited superplasticizer for sprayed concrete. MasterEase reduces the viscosity...
„Le Grand Paris” is a project creating space in Paris, Europe’s most densely populated city. The project is uniting the capital with multiple neighbouring communities – not only territorially, but...
On 14 December 2017, the SCAUT consortium under the leadership of the Elkuch Group introduced the project “Crosscut Closure Module” to an expanded SCAUT audience in the Hagerbach Test Gallery (VSH)....
