According to Brenner Basistunnelgesellschaft (BBT SE), despite intensive negotiations and efforts in recent months, no agreement could be reached between BBT SE and the contractor, ARGE H51 regarding...

The article describes the technical innovative supporting technologies that helped to safely drill and waterproof cross-passages under the sea in a major road tunnel project in Hong Kong, the Tuen...

As part of the virtual World Tunnel Congress 2020 from 11 to 17 September, the General Assembly of the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA) with representatives of the 78...

Due to the constantly changing situation regarding the coronavirus pandemic and the resultant lack of planning certainty, InnoTrans is to be postponed until 2022. After consulting with international...

On 3 November 2020, the German Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig dismissed all appeals against the planning approval decision for the construction of the Fehmarn Belt Tunnel, thus giving the...

Four out of five major projects are not completed within the planned time and the budgeted costs. The reasons for this great uncertainty lie in the lack of integration of a quantitative risk analysis...

CFH GmbH, based in Gladbeck, Germany, together with ventilation specialist Korfmann Lufttechnik GmbH from Witten, Germany, has set a common course for the future. The cooperation between the...

After months of preparation on the Isarco River Underpass construction site, the excavation started in early October 2020. The excavation works in this southernmost construction lot of the Brenner...

The 27.3 km-long twin-tube Semmering Base Tunnel in Austria has been under construction since 2012. On contract SBT 2.1, a good 8 km of each tube is driven using two shielded hard rock tunnel boring...

MBCC Group has emerged from the former BASF Construction Chemicals business after its acquisition by Lone Star Funds and start operations on October 1, 2020. MBCC Group had been carved-out from BASF...