Almost 400 experts from the field of tunnelling joined the first Southeast Asian Conference and Exhibition in Tunnelling and Underground Space (SEACETUS) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 18th to 19th...
The next STUVA conference will take place from 6 to 8 December 2017 in Stuttgart. At this “family meeting of the tunnelling industry”, more than 1800 high-ranking experts will attend and altogether 65...
A Replacement for the Alaskan Way Viaduct
After the Alaskan Way Viaduct had suffered considerable damage due to a major earthquake in 2001, initial preparations were made for a replacement. Eight...
40 Million Tonnes of Spoil on the Overall Project
Altogether about 20 million tonnes will be produced by the part project Stuttgart 21. The eight million tonnes to be transported through the central...
Geology and Gate Structures
Chandpol gate, one of the seven, is directly above the bore path for the Line 1 extension, and serves as a historical landmark (Fig. 1). Contractor Continental Engineering...
Atlas Copco has agreed to acquire part of Mobilaris MCE AB, a Sweden-based company that provides advanced software that optimizes underground mining operations.
Atlas Copco will acquire 34% of...
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...
High mountains, long fjords and steep valleys. A demanding landscape and tough climate with abundant precipitation meaning infrastructure construction is a severe challenge in Norway, host of the World Tunnel Congress 2017 from June 9 to June 15 in Bergen. The especially demanding circumstances became all the more obvious as roads and railways started to replace the sea routes as the standard means of travel in Norway. The first Norwegian road tunnel was built in 1884. The great breakthrough for traffic tunnelling came with the construction of the Bergen Railway in 1909: 182 tunnels were constructed as part of this first rail connection between east and west of Norway. Today Norway has more than 1800 road and rail tunnels, whose total length is well over 1000 km.
The U5 project in Berlin is one of the most important ongoing infrastructural schemes in Europe for Implenia. On March 22, 2017 the final concrete wall separating the new U5 tunnel from the Brandenburg Gate Metro Station was penetrated. In this way, the gap between U55 (Central Station–Brandenburg Gate) and the traditional U5 (Alexanderplatz–Hönow) has been closed and the tunnel roughwork has been completed, which commenced with the start-up of the “Bärlinde” tunnel boring machine (TBM) back in 2013.
In Malaysia, tunnelling took on an important change in 2003 when there was an acute need to address major flooding issues in the city of Kuala Lumpur. With the city densely built up to the brims, the...
