Issue 08/2010

The world‘s longest rail tunnel is coming ever closer to reality: the first bore completion breakthrough in the Gotthard Base Tunnel took place in the...

The fourth “BrennerCon­gress“ is to be held from March 17 to 18, 2011, parallel to the Viatec fair, in Bolzano, Italy. This international symposium...

The tunnel-boring machine, affectionately dubbed „Sissi“, in honour of the 19th century Austrian empress, by the international team of tunnellers...

In February, 2010, the Robbins Company invited to Corpus Christi, Texas/USA, to join the launch and assembly of three EPBs for the Emisor Oriente...

Those who make a prompt decision will reap worthwhile benefits - whether as exhibitors or visitors - at the IUT '11, to be held in the Hagerbach Test...

A mobile Liebherr-mixing plant type Easymix 1.0 produces shotcrete in a tunnelling section of the “Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project” in Washington...

The heading equipment for a 4 km long inclined shaft at the project power plant Linthal 2015, consisting of a tunnel boring machine with 8 m diameter...

The Jagdberg Tunnel, a new section of the A4 Eisenach to Görlitz Highway located between the Magdala and Jena/Göschwitz junctions, has been under...

More than eight hours away from the nearest city sits China’s Qinling Mountain, part of a range soaring up to 3,767 m high. About halfway up the...

For more than 30 years, the STUVA has compiled statistics on tunnelling activities in Germany in keeping with a corresponding proposal put forward by...

The Linthal 2015 project for Kraftwerke Linth Limmern AG (KLL), Switzerland, covers the comprehensive expansion of KLL‘s facilities including, inter...

All-plastic alkus formwork facing – containing no wood whatsoever – has earned itself a good reputation thanks to its durability and the good concrete...