In order to ensure the highest degree of safety in underground transport facilities, integrated technical solutions in combination with constructional fire protection can be of assistance. Solutions...
This year’s Geomechanics Colloquium held by the Austrian Society for Geomechanics (ÖGG) from October 12 to 13, 2017 in Salzburg was again one of the top events in its field in the German-language...
For more than 35 years the STUVA has carried out a survey of tunnelling in Germany prompted by a corresponding request by the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association [1].
A bottleneck exists between Gretzenbach and Wöschnau as the sole remaining twin-track section on the Berne–Olten–Zurich rail route. The SBB intends eliminating the Olten–Aarau bottleneck by the end of...
With its guidance systems and services, VMT has been one of the leading suppliers in tunnel construction and industrial measurement for more than 20 years.
Over 1,000 tunnel projects throughout the world bear witness to the efficiency and innovative strength of the VMT product portfolio in the fields of navigation technology, production and logistics...
The construction of the 51 km long Abwasserkanal Emscher (AKE) sewer tunnel is the largest individual project to improve the River Emscher in the Ruhr, Germany and is technically and financially one of the greatest challenges that the Emschergenossenschaft as client and their construction partners have ever had to overcome. Among the individual construction sections of the major project, construction section (BA) 40 is exceptional, not only because of its construction with segment lining.
The International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA) has been collecting data on international tunnel and underground construction since 2011. A first global market analysis was compiled in 2014. For the second overview, presented at the WTC 2017 in Bergen, the ITA member nations (73 countries) have once again been involved in collecting and checking the data. In total, information from 89 countries and 2300 projects was included in the recent analysis. This second market analysis clearly shows that the tunnelling market has a considerable size, with a global annual output of 86 billion euros.
At the ITA Assembly 2016 in San Francisco, a new Executive Council and a new president were elected. At its first meeting in Napa, the ITA Executive Council decided to update the ITA strategy for the...
