A large number of infrastructural schemes are being executed in the region for the 2014 Winter Olympics to be held in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. These include a roughly 13 km long bypass for...
In March 2009 the Herren-knecht Formwork Technology GmbH issued an invitation to attend a series of lectures captioned “Innovations and State of the Art for Tunnelling with Segments” at the...
Around 1,100 tunnellers from all over the world assembled in Budapest/H, from May 23rd to 28th, 2009, for the 35th Annual Meeting of the ITA – International Tunnelling and Underground Space...
For temporary (outer) tunnel shells the construction method using steel fibre shotcrete (SFRS) is state of the art and facilitates an initial support without undertaking work in the unsecured area....
1 Location and Traffic Situation
The Pfänder Tunnel forms the bypass for the Bregenz/A area and is located on the A14 Rhine Valley motorway, which is the most important north-south connection in...
Only a few years ago it was hard for graduates to find an appropriate job as a construction engineer immediately after finishing their studies. Often jobs as “trainees” were accepted, which in...
Mixing and grouting systems made by Häny are being used to construct the new Alstetten – Zurich Main Station - Oerlikon cross-city underground link in Switzerland. In contract section 3 (Weinberg...
The existing Zentralbahn route between the locations of Grafenort and Engelberg in Switzerland possesses extremely steep gradients and thus only low travelling seeds are possible. As a result a...
The International Congress on Traffic and Safety in Road Tunnels was held in Hamburg for the fifth time. Pöyry Infra Traffic stages the congress as a platform for an exchange of experience among experts, for the answering of questions posed by interested parties and for companies, which wish to present their products and solutions to problems.
The Südbahn represents an important rail link within Austria and at the same time is an element of the pan-European Corridor VI from the Baltic states leading to the north of Italy.
