The 2010 Winter Olympics have come and gone providing worldwide media exposure to the City of Vancouver. Approx. 15,000 journalists have been accredited to cover the 2010 Olympic games, almost twice...
Months before the start of the InnoTrans scheduled for September 21 to 24, 2010 it is evident that the trail-blazing international fair for rail transport technology is growing even further. At the...
The traditional D-A-CH meeting involving tunnellers from the 3 German language-speaking countries Germany, Austria and Switzerland was held for the 23rd time namely at Langenlois in the Wachau/A on...
A second bore was produced for the 5.1 km long, single-tube Roppener Tunnel near Imst for the motorway in the Tyrolean Upper Inn Valley. It was created largely by mining means (drill+blast with full...
The Koralm Railway is the extension of the trans-European corridor VI and part of the axis from Danzig via Warsaw and Vienna to Triest, Venice and Bologna, in other words the link between the Baltic...
One of the Austrian Federal Railways’ (ÖBB Infrastruktur AG) biggest safety technical projects is being tackled in the 10.5 km long twin-track Arlberg railway tunnel (built between 1879 and 1894)...
Adalsbanan and Bothniabanan
North Sweden’s link to the south has been substantially improved along the country’s eastern coastline thanks to the development of the railway infrastructure. The Adal...
In the Gotthard Base Tunnel’s Erstfeld section a fully hydraulic and flexibly adjustable tunnel forming carriage served to execute the inner shell for 2 branching structures, which tapered greatly...
May 13, 2011 marked the completion of the world’s largest hard rock TBM drive at Canada’s Niagara Tunnel Project. A well-attended ceremony celebrated the final breakthrough of the 14.4 m diameter...
With investments of some 1.8 b. CHF (1.2 b. euros) the new Nant de Drance pump storage station is being built within the catchment area beneath the 2 dams at Emosson, operational since 1955 and 1975...
