Operators are deciding ever more frequently to equip their tunnels with a water-mist fire-fighting system (water-mist FFS). Here, water-mist FFS should not be regarded as “add-ons”, but should,...
Tunnel structures are not only among the most demanding construction projects on engineering criteria, their investment costs also put them amongst the most expensive. Another aspect to be added is...
On May 30, 2019 Richard James Robbins, President and CEO of The Robbins Company from 1958 to 1993, passed away surrounded by family in Seattle, Washington, USA. Richard (Dick) Robbins was widely...
The DB Projekt Stuttgart–Ulm GmbH celebrated the start of the excavation for the part of the Rosenstein S-Bahn Tunnel to be driven from the bank of the Neckar on July 16, 2019. The future suburban...
Around 2000 participants from 73 countries gathered in Naples, Italy from May 3 to 9, 2019. The occasion was the 45th General Assembly of the ITA (International Tunnelling and Underground Space...
More than 1000 ambulance and fire service personnel, 300 actors and more than 200 referees, observers and guests: the exercise in the Fleckberg rail tunnel in Thuringia, which took place on 22 June...
Dr.-Ing. Friedrich Krüger of the STUVA will chair a seminar on “Noise and Vibration Protection for Rail Traffic” featuring the slogan “Farewell Railway Bonus – Which Effects does this have on...
In April 2019, a 3.5 m diameter open-type Main Beam TBM and its crew broke through at the Galerie des Janots Tunnel in La Ciotat, France. The 2.8 km long tunnel, excavated in limestone known to have...
Together with Porr Bau GmbH, MC Bauchemie has developed a new TBM backfill grout based on a geopolymer that is suitable for use in swelling rock formations. This cementless annular gap filler prevents...
