Issue 01/2012

A toast to the birthday child. The first issue of tunnel appeared 30 years ago. Even although some us are thinking about retiring after 30 years’...

If you believe InnoTrans 2012 deals exclusively with trains and tracks you’re making a big mistake. Admittedly the international top fair for rail...

Phase 3 – the construction phase – of the Brenner Base Tunnel was started on 18th April 2011. The following article gives an overview of the state of...

Since mid of 2011 two Earth Pressure Balance Shields are employed for the extension of Metro Line A in Prague. The tunnelling progress documents the...

Today, fixed fire fighting systems (FFFS) are an established technology to improve safety in tunnels. The following article – a lecture at the STUVA...

The 6th Tunnel Fair on “Innovation Underground” (IUT ‘11) [1] (September 14/15, 2011) held in the vicinity of Sargans (some 3,000 visitors) provided a...

The Bulgarian capital Sofia hosted the First International Conference for Geotechnical and Tunnel Construction Geo Projects 2011 between October 12th...

Tunnellers caught up with each other at the 2011 STUVA Conference. Established for many years as the “tunnellers’ get-together” and held in high...