The 3.3 km long Gubris Tunnel is located in the Zurich North Bypass (A1/A4 North Ring) between the municipalities of Weiningen and Regensdorf. The road tunnel, which opened in 1985, has 2...
Currently the Handeck-Gerstenegg exploratory tunnel is under construction to secure access in winter to the Grimsel 1 and 2 power plants as well as to open up further “KWO plus” projects for the...
The almost 700 m long twin-track Old Busch Tunnel (1843) between Aachen and the Belgian border was reopened on October 23, 2011 on a single-track basis following extensive renovation work. In...
A tunnel is to be produced in Rastatt after all in conjunction with the 4-track upgrading of the Rheintal railway. It will undercut the entire bounds of the city as well as the Federbach lowland area...
It is the biggest individual project within the scope of the “Emscher Redevelopment” – a generation-spanning scheme providing the prerequisite for modernising the region’s hydro-economic...
When road tunnels must be renovated through being sealed then this can be attributed to 2 reasons: either leaks and moisture have spread in the tunnel in the course of the years – or, how-
ever,...
Intertunnel, Italy‘s premier tunnelling event, will return to Turin from 27 to 29 March 2012. The exhibition will provide the opportunity to meet the many specialists responsible for planning,...
It is the year 1325. At the foot of mighty mountains and volcanoes such as the more than 5,000 m high Popocatépeti in the Anáhuc valley in Central America. An eagle soars through the air searching...
1 The sinking City
In the past 100 years some parts of Mexico City have sunk by roughly 12 m – corresponding to the height of a 4-storey high house. The bulk of the city is constructed on swampy...
Tunnels represent important elements of an effective infrastructure for transport and supply,ranging from construction, operation, maintenance and retrofitting, in other words from the planning stage...
