Mechanical tunnelling has gained increasing importance over the past years. This tunnelling method, e.g. with a shield machine, provides a high degree of security for the tunnelling team. With...
At around 50 km, the Channel Tunnel between Co-quelles, in France, and Folke-stone, England, is currently the world‘s longest rail tunnel. It is used by Eurostar trains on their route from London to...
1 Introduction
Despite the high present-day level of automation and mechanization, mechanized tunneling begins to encounter its limitations in shield-machine operations with no active rockface...
The 9,500 m long Filder Tunnel with two single-track bores built as an S-Bahn tunnel to Stuttgart Airport within the scope of the Stuttgart 21 Project can also be used for main line trains. The...
Readers wishing to get the latest information, any time, any place, on ongoing preparations for the IUT ’11, again to be held at the Hagerbach Test Gallery near Sargans, Switzerland, on September 14...
The two-track Lichtenholz Tunnel with a length of 931 m located in the District of Lichtenfels is part of the 107 km long new railway line between Ebensfeld and Leipzig (with a total of 22 tunnels),...
The 107 km long Deutsche Bahn AG new line from Ebensfeld to Leipzig is part of the new and upgraded route from Nuremberg to Berlin, the German Unity Transport Project No. 8, which will become...
Prof. Heinz Wind died, after a severe illness, on August 20, 2010, shortly before his 80th birthday.
During his thirty-seven years in the construction industry, Heinz Wind played a definitive role as...
For generations Silvaplana has represented an important traffic hub between North Bünden and the Engadin. Transit traffic is increasingly being seen as a burden. At the end of 2007 an outline project...
The tunnels of the 1,800 km Swiss national road network are among the safest in the world. However, standards and guidelines evolve continuously. The Swiss Road Authority (ASTRA) is addressing this...
