The “Förbifart Stockholm” bypass is creating a new north-south link on the edge of Sweden’s capital. The Swiss construction and construction services company Implenia is to handle the first...
The BLS AG invited tenders for planning the further development of the Lötschberg Base Tunnel on August 17, 2015. The planning work is due to start in 2016. It will embrace the double-track development from Ferden-Mitholz and the complete development of Ferden-Frutigen as an option. Within the scope of the FABI (= financing and development of the rail infrastructure) submission the Swiss Federal Assembly has already provided funding.
The newly built operations control centre Betriebsleitzentrale (BLZ) in the Canton of Graubünden will operate 24 hours a day for the safety of all national and cantonal roads and will also support the control centre of the canton police and fire service operations in case of incidents; it has two workplaces provided with the most modern equipment
200 kilonewtons press down on a 20 cm wide, 30 cm high and 3.60 m long reinforced concrete beam. There is creaking and cracking, pieces splinter off, the first cracks can be observed. If there were...
An important phase has been completed in the construction of the approximately 2 km long, two-track Rosshäusern Tunnel on the line from Berne to Neuchâtel. After the decision to change the method of construction, the last blast took place in the upper half of the tunnel (top heading) 181 m west of the tunnel middle at the start of June 2015.
After more than a year of tunnelling, the second bore of the 8320 m long Gleinalm Tunnel, the third longest road tunnel in Austria, was broken through in the middle of 2015. After the planned completion of lining work in autumn 2016, the east bore should be opened for traffic in 2017.
The two shafts that will allow tunnelling to proceed towards Gloggnitz and Mürzzuschlag are now being built at Lot 2.1 of the Semmering Base Tunnel in Fröschnitzgraben, Austria. At the end of July Federal Minister Alois Stöger, State Governor Michael Schickhofer, State Councillor Karl Wilfing, CEO of ÖBB-Holding AG Christian Kern and, representing the construction consortium, the Head of Implenia’s Business Unit Infrastructure Rene Kotacka celebrated the start of work on the shafts with invited guests.
Crossrail’s final tunnelling machine, Victoria, is being dismantled 40 m below Farringdon in central London following the completion of Crossrail tunnelling.
On July 10th 2015, the European Parliament confirmed the European Commission‘s 13 billion euros CEF (Connecting Europe Facility) infrastructure investment plan. 1.18 billion euros of these funds are earmarked for the Brenner Base Tunnel, which is thereby the most heavily funded infrastructure project in Europe
The STUVA Conference, the international forum for tunnels and infrastructure, has really become a must on the agenda of committed tunnellers and tunnel operators. The next STUVA Conference will be...
