Issue 03/2019

Start of Tunnelling Works at South Exploratory TunnelOn 29 March 2019 tunnelling work for the fourth drilling of Lot H51 Pfons–Brenner began on the south exploratory tunnel, marked by a drilling...

In April 2019, a Robbins 3.5 m diameter Main Beam TBM broke through into open space, completing the 2.8 km long tunnel Galerie des Janots in France. It was not the first time the machine had...

The second article about the Rotterdamsebaan project in The Hague continues from the publication in tunnel 1/2018 „The Rotterdamsebaan Project in The Hague“ and provides an overview of the further...

The Eurasia Tunnel (Fig. 1) is the first underground road connection to cross the Bosporus. Since late 2016 this important traffic artery has linked the Asian and European parts of the Turkish...

A tunnel inspection today still means a lot of manual work – long deployments, often at night, on closed tracks or roads. And after the elaborate inspection, the often very subjective data is time-consuming to process. Digitalization will make these processes easier in the future. In a research project, Amberg Technologies and Amberg Engineering, both companies of the Swiss Amberg Group, have developed a cloud-based platform, which uses artificial intelligence for automatic damage detection.

This report deals with the refurbishing of the Petersberg Tunnel. In this connection, for the first time within the scope of a pilot project, the tunnel-in-tunnel method was applied on an electrified...

After more than 60 years of use, refurbishment of the road tunnel between Neuhaus and Spitzingsee bei Schliersee, Germany, was urgently necessary. The waterproofing directly behind the shotcrete inner...

As from now the provisional programme for the two parallel lectures series on Tunnelling and Tunnel Operation/Planning can be accessed on the homepage and downloaded (...

Running concurrently with the STUVA Conference, the Hypermotion will take place at the Frankfurt fairgrounds for the third time. Rapid digitalisation in many sectors of life poses a challenge to us...

On April 9, a seminar-workshop was held in Düsseldorf by the STUVA in conjunction with the VDV – the Association of German Transport Companies (Fig. 1). The topic was: “Availability of Public...

In mid-March 2019, the member of the Forum for Young Engineering Professionals (STUVA-YEP) convened for the third time. The event was captioned “New Infrastructure under the Challenges of existing...

Following an 18-month period of construction, the time had come in March 2019 for the entire STUVA and STUVAtec GmbH team to pack their moving boxes and switch to the recently completed new building....