Issue 05/2011

In autumn 2011 STUVA and tunnel are jointly embarking on a new series of events captioned the “German tunnel-Forum”. We are pursuing the aim of...

A visit by Brazilian tunnelling experts represents a particular highlight at the IUT ’11. They are visiting the IUT in order to establish contacts,...

13.5 km – this is the length of the intake tunnel for the new Palomino hydro-electric plant in the Dominican Republic. “Anacaona”, the technically...

The following article gives an overview over the differences between EPB and Slurry TBMs and shows innovations and limitations of these two...

Sochi is the venue for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. This article was a paper of the Swiss Tunnel Conference 2011 in Lucerne/CH and includes a...

The following article contains a summary of the history of underground construction in Brazil as well as a summary of present opportunities in the...

Concrix® is the first bi-component high-performance fibre for reinforcing concrete. Thanks to the performance range of the macrofibres the technical...

STUVA Conference 2011 Correction regarding early Registration In the last edition of STUVA News in tunnel 3/2011 (May issue) an error crept into the...