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4400 Participants – STUVA Conference 2025
With Record Attendance

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A grand setting for a successful STUVA Conference 2025: The Congress Center Hamburg

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The traditional festive evening on the first day exceeded all expectations. Over 2000 participants celebrated together until late into the night

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The outcome of the STUVA Expo: enormous public interest, excellent customer contacts, and full stands on both days of the trade fair

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The major U5 project in Hamburg was awarded the STUVA Prize by STUVA Managing Director Prof. Dr.-Ing. Roland Leucker (left) and STUVA Chairman of the Board Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Ziegler (right). Jens-Günter Lang (Hochbahn) and Klaus Uphoff (U5 Projekt GmbH) accepted the award on behalf of all employees

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After more than two decades as Chairman of the STUVA Executive Board, Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Ziegler is retiring and handing over the reins to Dipl.-Ing. Tim Dahlmann-Resing, who was newly elected as Chairman by the members

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The STUVA Conference 2025 took place from November 25 to 27: two days with an extensive program of lectures and a well-attended exhibition, the STUVA Expo, and one day with numerous exciting construction site visits. Total attendance reached a new record level in 2025 with over 4400 people. There were 2500 participants at the conference event, and over 1900 participants (exhibitors and trade visitors) attended the STUVA Expo. More than 2000 people took part in the traditional gala evening this time.

STUVA Award 2025 Goes to the Major
U5 Project in Hamburg

With this year‘s award for the U5 in Hamburg, STUVA is honoring a project that exemplifies forward-looking mobility, sustainable construction, and cooperative partnership. Currently the largest subway project in Germany, it will create a high-performance east-west connection with 22 stops over a distance of around 25 km. With its fully automated operation at 90-second intervals, it will create important new links in the urban transport network. This will ensure fast, barrier-free, and reliable mobility for up to 315 000 passengers per day.

Dr.-Ing. Gabriel Lehmann Receives
the STUVA Young Talent Award

As the winner of the “Youth Forum” presentation competition, Dr.-Ing. Gabriel Lehmann, Head of the Geotechnical Engineering Department at Herrenknecht AG, won the award for his contribution “TBM tunneling in hard rock: rock preconditioning with microwaves”.

The final selection was made based on an evaluation by the audience at the presentation event, which took into account the content of the presentation, the type of visual presentation, and the manner of delivery. Gabriel Lehmann impressed in all areas. The prize consists of a trip to the extraordinary construction site of the “Snowy 2.0” underground pumped storage power plant, the largest renewable energy storage project in Australian history.

Tim Dahlmann-Resing Is the New
Chairman of the Board

After more than two decades as STUVA chairman, Univ.- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Ziegler is taking well-deserved retirement and handed over the baton to the newly elected chairman, Dipl.-Ing. Tim Dahlmann-Resing, at the STUVA Conference.

STUVA Conference 2027 – Save the Date

For the next STUVA Conference, we are heading back down from the far north to the south of Germany: From December 8 to 10, 2027, the “tunnel builders‘ family reunion” will take place at the Munich Exhibition Center.