With approx. 1.4 % of the surface area of South Africa, Gauteng is the country’s smallest province in terms of area. However, the province contains nearly 20 % of the country’s population. Because...
The Berlin U55 has travelled on the Metro section between the Brandenburg Gate and Berlin Central Station (Fig. 1) since the beginning of August 2009. Stepped-up safety precautions prevail in Metro...
Each year Rowa Tunnelling Logistics invites its customers to Wangen/CH to inform them about the company’s latest developments. At the end of September 2009 it was made evident that the company’s...
BASF Construction Chemicals’ business unit MEYCO Global Underground Construction, one of the world’s leading suppliers of technical solutions for TBM in underground construction, held the 3rd...
Starting Situation
The improving of mobility for the disabled and other persons with impaired movement in public transportation was already regarded as an important task in Germany prior to the...
The 6,969 m Finne Tunnel is the longest on the DB AG’s new Erfurt–Leipzig–Halle route and the sole tunnel on the entire section between Munich and Berlin, whose tubes are being constructed...
1 The TEN Axis from Berlin to Palermo
The trans-border European priority scheme TEN Project No. 1 represents a roughly 2,200 km long high-speed railway route between Berlin/D and Palermo/I. Between...
Around 280 experts from research and practice – almost half of them from abroad – as well as a number of exhibitors – accepted the invitation from Prof. Wolfgang Kusterle from the Technical...
Tunnelling as a very special and sophisticated branch of the engineering sciences is characterised by high risks during project execution. In particular tunnelling in residential areas involves...
Airport Link Brisbane in Australia whilst being a mega project in its own right is actually only 1 part of a 4 tunnel master plan designed to sort out Brisbane’s notorious traffic system and address...
