For 40 years the STUVA has carried out a survey of tunnelling in Germany. Annually collected from clients, construction companies and designers are regularly published in consolidated form. An assignment prompted by a corresponding request from the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association [1].

The article describes the technical solutions and methodology applied to stop the heavy water ingresses in the tunnels of a Metro Line, which have been left incomplete and abandoned since several...

The Deutsche Bahn has reached another important milestone on the Stuttgart 21 project: in the middle of November 2019, after about two years of excavating the Untertürkheim Tunnel, the first of two...

Projects that go down in history. German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel reiterated this during her visit at the Herrenknecht AG on October 7, 2019. On a tour of the plant premises, company founder and...

The stock of existing tunnels in Germany is obsolete and legislators have revised the guidelines, in some cases several times. If the obsolescence of a tunnel now demands repair or a structural...

A research project on the expected costs and their development from the planning phase through tendering to invoicing was carried out in order to establish a reliable basis for the resource planning...

Norway’s mountainous topography of rivers, streams, and waterfalls is a haven for hydropower, and new initiatives are reinventing the renewable energy on a small scale. Such projects could have...

2019 is the success number of the STUVA Conference in Frankfurt am Main: 2019 regular tickets … in the year 2019? Surely someone must have "rounded" that? Let's be straight now.

He may be no recognised tunnel expert but he definitely had something to say worth listening to: former German chancellor Dr. h. c. mult. Gerhard Schröder gave the opening speech at the STUVA...

At the opening ceremony, STUVA chairman Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Ziegler awarded the STUVA Prize. The winner this year is Dipl.-Ing. ETH Felix Amberg, president of the Swiss Amberg Group. Felix...