Issue 03/2011

With the final breakthrough in the western bore the two 57 km long main bores of the Gotthard Base Tunnel have been completely excavated. On Wednesday...

“We planned to welcome around 150 experts”, told Dr. sc. Davorin Kolic (Fig. 1), president of the Croatian Assoviation for Tunnels and Underground...

Fire is a physical and dynamic phenomenon! Fire-protection concepts should consequently be oriented to physics under dynamic boundary conditions. The...

Europe’s biggest urban development project, the HafenCity, is to be linked with the Hamburg transit network by the U4 metro line, which is in the...

As a result of the ever-greater spread in fields of application for TBM drives in tunnelling, the process technology of the driving methods must also...

Porous phyllite, heavy water inflows, and faulted geology have been just a few of the challenges at India’s Pula Subbaiah Veligonda Tunnel Project....

Since end of 2008 the biggest infrastructure project in Belgium is under construction as a Public Private Partnership project in the Antwerp sea port...

The following article from the organizing Finnish Tunnelling Association welcomes the participants at the ITA-AITES World Tunnel Congress 2011 in...

The Tunnelling Roadheader MT520 is being operated in the scope of the “Linea 3” project in Bilbao, in Northern Spain. In September 2010 the Bilbao...

New trends in the field of tunnel lining were discussed on the 3rd and 4th of March, 2011 in the Europa Park in Rust. Designers, representatives of...

The next STUVA Conference will be held from December 6 to 8, 2011 (the General Assembly and Executive Council session, which are not open to the...