Excavation is complete on both connecting tunnels that link the Innsbruck railway bypass, which has been operational since 1994, with the Brenner Base Tunnel. In mid-May 2017 the breakthrough of the...
Structural works in the new 909 m long Pforzheimer Tunnel on the railway line from Karlsruhe to Mühlacker have been completed. The original Pforzheimer Tunnel, built between 1858 and 1860, was no...
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...
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...
Diameter 13.91 m, weight 2000 tonnes, length 75 m – the Single Shield TBM manufactured by Herrenknecht specifically for construction of the Belchen renovation tunnel is the largest of its kind. The...
Construction of new twin metro rail tunnels will begin deep under Sydney Harbour and theheart of the central business district CBD after a major tunnelling contract was awarded by the New South Wales...
The ASFINAG has awarded a major contract to two Austrian construction companies: Swietelsky-Bau in Graz and SSB-Bau based in Carinthia will work as a joint venture to carry out the general...
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....
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...
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 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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
The initiative “Germany – Land of Ideas” and the Federal Ministry for Transport and Digital Infrastructure acknowledged the “InREAKT – Integrated Help Reaction Chains to enhance Safety in Public...
For many years, the STUVAtec GmbH has been certified by the TÜV Nord as a producer of fire protection plans for the Deutsche Bahn AG and has developed fire protection plans for numerous major projects...
On November 7 and 8, 2017, Dr.-Ing. Friedrich Krüger, STUVA Inc., will chair and also contribute to the seminar “Noise Prevention in Rail Traffic”, organized by the Esslingen Technical...
In April 2017, Dr. Rolf Bielecki died at the age of 85. German engineering has thus lost one of its most incisive and internationally regarded personalities of recent decades. Bielecki became widely...
The following companies joined the STUVA during the first half of 2017:K+S Ingenieur-Consult GmbH & Co. KG, Nuremberg (Germany)Verband der Stahlfaserhersteller e. V., Hamm (Germany)IHC Hytop B.V.,...
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...
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...
