1 Background
High permeabilities entail the risk that perhaps it is not possible to secure the required support needed for the face during the drive as well as in the case of compressed air accesses....
According to a communication sent by the Administrative Council of the AlpTransit Gotthard AG (ATG) to the NEAT Supervisory Authority (the body responsible for the new Alpine transport routes) the...
With the final breakthrough in the western bore the two 57 km long main bores of the Gotthard Base Tunnel have been completely excavated. On Wednesday March 23, 2011, the tunnellers proudly and...
Project Background
Eastern areas of India’s Andhra Pradesh state receive only 20 cm of rainfall per year - an amount comparable to Africa’s Kalahari Desert. The Andhra Pradesh Irrigation...
New trends in the field of tunnel lining were discussed on the 3rd and 4th of March, 2011 in the Europa Park in Rust. Designers, representatives of construction companies and precast concrete segments...
The next STUVA Conference will be held from December 6 to 8, 2011 (the General Assembly and Executive Council session, which are not open to the public, will take place on December 5) at the Berlin...
The Tunnelling Roadheader MT520 is being operated in the scope of the “Linea 3” project in Bilbao, in Northern Spain.
In September 2010 the Bilbao Metro has 40.61 km of rail tracks, with 38...
On March 23, 2011 at 20 past 12 noon the tunnel boring machine broke through from the Faido western bore into the Sedrun part-section (title page); in this connection the deviations from the intended...
“We planned to welcome around 150 experts”, told Dr. sc. Davorin Kolic (Fig. 1), president of the Croatian Assoviation for Tunnels and Underground Structures ITA Croatia, in an interview with...
Reserve a space in your calendar for October 18, 2011 in Cologne or October 20, 2011 in Hamburg. For the very first time the international journal tunnel in conjunction with the Research association...
