In a pilot project, the company Marti GmbH Deutschland investigated which BIM-based applications should be implemented in conventional tunnelling, and the process of recording the condition of the...

Construction of the new two-track Bözberg rail tunnel is the largest individual project of the SBB on the 4-m corridor along the Gotthard axis between Basle and Chiasso. Switzerland. It is intended to...

Due to the spreading coronavirus in Asia-Pacific and recently also in Europe, the organisers decided on 26 February to shift the date of the ITA/AITES World Tunnel Congress 2020 and associated events...

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...

For his achievements in teaching as well as his professional and scientific merits, the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) awarded the title of Honorary Professor to Roland Leucker, managing director of...

Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology has launched its latest development for tunneling excavation, the DT1132i jumbo. The new Sandvik DT1132i tunneling jumbo itself is a three-boom, electro-hydraulic...

The Norwegian city of Bergen has contracted the construction of Løvstakktunnel, a 3 km long metro tunnel and a parallel multi-use pedestrian and cycling tunnel, which is connected by six  passages and...

The B31 is one of the main roads with the heaviest traffic in the administrative district of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg (Germany). The 7 km long section between Immenstaad and Friedrichshafen should...

In autumn 2018 the Abu Dhabi Sewerage Services Company (ADSSC) commissioned the UK construction company Joseph Gallagher International with the project “Construction of Deep Gravity Line” in Abu Dhabi...

Safety first in mining and tunnelling: For this reason, the German machine manufacturer GHH is pushing the use of radio remote controls where ever it suits the application. Its T-RX100J model is...