Following the success of the 1st PIARC International Conference on Tunnels held in Lyon, France, in October 2018, the World Road Association PIARC and the Spanish National Committee (ATC) will jointly...
MBCC Group, one of the leading suppliers of construction chemicals and solutions worldwide, and TPH Bausysteme GmbH signed a purchase agreement for the acquisition of TPH by MBCC Group in March 2021....
On World Water Day 2021, which takes place every year on 22 March, the Brenner Base Tunnel Society (BBT SE) drew attention to a positive effect of the construction works. The insights collected...
Generation change at the management level of the Stuttgart-Ulm rail project: Michael Pradel (47) will join the executive board of DB Projekt Stuttgart–Ulm GmbH (PSU) on 1 May 2021, where he will take...
In the municipality of Fortezza works on the Isarco River Underpass construction site, which is the southernmost construction lot of the Brenner Base Tunnel, are proceeding at full speed. The complex...
In mid-March 2021, the Swiss Federal Roads Office (FEDRO) has awarded the 86.6 million Swiss francs (78.5 million euros) contract to build a 4 km access shaft for the second Gotthard tube (Lot 243) to...
In March 2021, the Swiss construction group Implenia was awarded the contract for the construction of the Lysaker–Fornebu railway tunnel in Norway. The contract consists of planning and building a...
Since the 6th Rock Mechanics and Tunnelling Day could not take place in 2020 due to the Corona pandemic, the event is now planned for 10 June 2021. However, the regulations to be expected due to the...
The largest ever Robbins Crossover (XRE) TBM in China launched in late March 2021 in Guangzhou for contractors Sichuan Jinshi Heavy Equipment Leasing Co., Ltd and CREC Bureau 2. The 9.16 m diameter...
On 26 February 2021, DSI Underground SMART, a wholly owned subsidiary of DSI Underground completed the acquisition of the virtual reality training specialist Edvirt. Edvirt provides products and...
The world´s largest known resource of polyhalite minerals is located in northern England in the county of North Yorkshire, close to Whitby. To unearth the mineral, which is used in the production of...
At the Auberg Tunnel in Bavaria, Germany, the connection reinforcement between the tunnel invert and the vault constructed later above it was skipped (Fig. 1). The arrangement of an unreinforced...
Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions introduces the new Sandvik DD212, a compact and intelligent single-boom electro-hydraulic drill for tunneling and mining development in narrow vein drifts. This new...
Effective cost and risk management is critical to the success of large infrastructure projects. Significant cost overruns in major projects show that risk management is not being given the importance it should have. In order to be able to measure and control current cost and the schedule against set targets, it is necessary to assess risks in a transparent manner and to consider them appropriately. The insight is not new – every reader will certainly have heard this or similar statements. But why do we get the impression that nothing changes and that we – paraphrasing Einstein – do the same thing over and over again and still expect different results?
The wear of tunnelling tools successively reduces their excavation capability, which slows down the penetration rate of the tunnel-boring machine (TBM) and eventually requires a replacement of the...
In 2020 the International Fire Academy (ifa) published the German-language edition of the textbook “Firefighting Operations in Railway Tunnels“. It is the second volume in the series “Interventions in...
