In March 2020, a solution for the new crossing of the Fehmarn Sound (Fehmarnsund) was found; the German Federal Ministry of Transport, the state of Schleswig-Holstein and Deutsche Bahn compared all...
At the beginning of May 2020, German Railways (DB) reached another milestone in the Stuttgart 21 project: With the breakthrough of the eastern tube of the 9.5 km long Filder Tunnel, the last of four...
The construction of underground infrastructure projects is a complex and lengthy matter. Conflicts between the contracting parties often arise during the planning and especially during the execution...
For the Alphington Sewer Projekt in Melbourne, Australia, the responsible authority Melbourne Water ordered the replacement of masonry sewers more than 100 years old between Coate Park and the Latobe...
In March 2020, a solution for the new crossing of the Fehmarnd Sound (Fehmarnsund) was found; the German Federal Ministry of Transport, the state of Schleswig-Holstein and Deutsche Bahn compared all...
The restrictions on public events due to the coronavirus have affected numerous conferences in the tunnelling sector, which have been cancelled or postponed. The first to react were the organizers of...
In 2018 four organizations of both Belgium and the Netherlands hosted the first European conference on tunnel renovations. After the success of this conference with over 350 visitors and the...
Within the framework of the Stuttgart 21 project, the tunnelling work for the approximately 17 km of tunnels in anhydrite has been successfully completed. The present article is intended to provide a...
In September 2019, the German Federal Ministry of Transport and German Railways (DB) commissioned an in-depth feasibility study for a long-distance tunnel beneath Frankfurt am Main Central Station....
In January 2020, TBM manufacturer Terratec joined workers and officials in celebrating the breakthrough of the 6.39 m diameter S70 EPB machine by contractor Italian-Thai Development PCL (ITD) on one...
