Projects that go down in history. German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel reiterated this during her visit at the Herrenknecht AG on October 7, 2019. On a tour of the plant premises, company founder and...
The Deutsche Bahn has reached another important milestone on the Stuttgart 21 project: in the middle of November 2019, after about two years of excavating the Untertürkheim Tunnel, the first of two...
Implenia has been commissioned by Deutsche Bahn to build the 8-km Albvorland Tunnel, a key section of the new railway line between Stuttgart and Ulm. The breakthrough of October 29 in the southern...
Dr. Karl Morgen. 1st vice-chairman of the STUVA board received the HTG lifetime achievement award of the Werner Möbius Foundation at the HTG Congress 2019 in Lübeck, Germany. He was honoured for his...
The line from Dresden to Prague is an important connection for cross-border rail traffic for Germany and the Czech Republic as well as for the neighbouring countries to the southeast. The intention is...
As an extension to the existing pump series P 215 to P 455, the German manufacturer Söndgerath Pumpen GmbH now presents two submersible pumps of the new P Series – the P 475 and the P 675. As from...
Excavating the Trimberg Tunnel for the new motorway A44 Kassel – Herleshausen in Germany, the tunnellers encountered difficult geology and had to install a temporary top heading invert of shotcrete....
The internationally active company Bentley Systems develops construction software, which is also used on infrastructure projects like tunnels. In an interview with “tunnel”, Lutz Bettels, Vice...
Norway’s mountainous topography of rivers, streams, and waterfalls is a haven for hydropower, and new initiatives are reinventing the renewable energy on a small scale. Such projects could have...
For 40 years the STUVA has carried out a survey of tunnelling in Germany. Annually collected from clients, construction companies and designers are regularly published in consolidated form. An assignment prompted by a corresponding request from the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association [1].
A research project on the expected costs and their development from the planning phase through tendering to invoicing was carried out in order to establish a reliable basis for the resource planning...
The stock of existing tunnels in Germany is obsolete and legislators have revised the guidelines, in some cases several times. If the obsolescence of a tunnel now demands repair or a structural...
In the black of night, a train carrying eighty passengers is immobilised in one of the underground railway tunnels beneath the French city of Lyon – smoke begins to spread. The task now is to get the...
The following companies joined the STUVA in 2019:DigitalTwin Technology GmbH, Cologne (Germany)Gall Zeidler Consultants, LLC, Ashburn (USA)Geoconsult Deutschland GmbH, Berlin (Germany)
