The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM) has informed the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA) that World Tunnel Congress 2020 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is cancelled.

Munich’s Franz-Josef Strauß airport in the Erdinger Moos is increasingly important as an economic factor for the region of Bavaria as well as a transfer location for passengers and freight all over...

The east tunnel of the Swiss Lötschberg base tunnel has already had to be closed three times this year due to water and mud ingress: In February, March and most recently at the end of April 2020. The...

In March 2020, a solution for the new crossing of the Fehmarn Sound (Fehmarnsund) was found; the German Federal Ministry of Transport, the state of Schleswig-Holstein and Deutsche Bahn compared all...

For the Alphington Sewer Projekt in Melbourne, Australia, the responsible authority Melbourne Water ordered the replacement of masonry sewers more than 100 years old between Coate Park and the Latobe...

According to the German tram regulations BOStrab [1], constructional fire protection for underground transport structures in urban areas has to be paid particular attention. In addition to endangering...

In autumn 2017, excavation of the bypass tunnel around the centre of Küssnacht, Switzerland, had to be stopped due to obstruction of the works by heavy slurry inflow and a cave-in. Intensive...

At the beginning of May 2020, German Railways (DB) reached another milestone in the Stuttgart 21 project: With the breakthrough of the eastern tube of the 9.5 km long Filder Tunnel, the last of four...

And once again the Stuttgart 21 project: Driving for the Feuerbach Tunnel, which connects the existing railway lines to and from Mannheim, Karlsruhe and Paris with the future Stuttgart Central...

For the reorganisation of the Stuttgart rail junction, the structural work has progressed so far that the next phase of the project can be started: Deutsche Bahn has now awarded the first contract for...