An inrush of mud in the running ground causing excavation to come to a standstill for 15 months: this incident was documented during the construction of the existing metre gauge railway tunnel 117...
Jaipur, India’s tenth most populous city, is a cultural melting pot of 6.6 million people. The city’s heart is encircled by a wall six meters high and three meters thick, with seven gated openings....
The “Transjurane” is one of the most challenging road projects in Switzerland. With a length of 84 km, the new national autobahn A16 crosses the Jura mountains, running through numerous smaller and...
“Half of our job is done now and the end of the transport is foreseeable“, stated Wolf-Dieter Tigges, manager of the central construction logistics (ZBL) on the DB project Stuttgart–Ulm. His...
The Austrian Strenger Tunnel in Tyrol was fitted with passive fire protection in 2016 within the scope of a rehabilitation scheme. The selected solution involving fire protection boards also includes...
Käthchen, the tunnel boring machine (TBM), which the DB Projekt Stuttgart–Ulm GmbH is using to drive the Boßler Tunnel on the new Wendlingen–Ulm rail route, embarked on its second shield passage on...
The 1950s vintage Alaskan Way Viaduct has long been considered one of the most important thoroughfares along Seattle‘s waterfront in Washington, USA. As a replacement for the elevated viaduct that is...
The heavily used main A13 road runs through Roveredo, a small town in the Misox Valley in Switzerland. To bypass the town, the Swiss Road Traffic Authority (ASTRA) decided to build the 2.5 km long...
What exactly do we mean when we talk about Building Information Modeling – and what are we going to do with it? The subject of BIM has ultimately reached the tunnelling industry in the German-speaking...
2017 marks the 40th jubilee of the setting up of the Herrenknecht Concern, but for its founder and board chairman there was a further reason to celebrate: on June 24, 2017, Dr.-Ing. E.h. Martin...
