Issue 02/2011

After an almost 10-year construction period the single-track Engelberg Tunnel between Grafenort and Engelberg was opened on December 12, 2010...

Representing the Swiss Underground Community, the Swiss Tunnelling Society picked up the NCE International Tunnelling Award for the Project Gotthard...

Compared to 2-track tunnels, single-track long tunnels with a slab track, which can also be used by emergency vehicles, fulfil the highest demands...

The Asian city state of Singapore has experienced an enormous economic growth over the past few years. The requirements placed on the transportation...

On the occasion of the IUT ’11 Underground Fair from September 14 to 15, 2011, an accompanying seminar on “Tunnel Redevelopment and Renovation” will...

The Weinberg Tunnel in Zurich, part of Swiss Federal Railways’ “Diameter Line Project”, was successfully broken through on 22nd November 2010. After...

The 11th International Conference on Underground Construction Prague 2010 was held in the modern hotel Clarion in the capital of the Czech Republic...

Warmly welcome to Helsinki for the ITA-AITES 2011 World Tunnel Congress “Underground spaces in the service of a sustainable society” and the 37^th...

According to present planning a new part-section of the A52 from the Essen-East junction linking up with the A42 at the current Essen-North motorway...

Since Bulgaria joined the European Union construction activities have grown enormously. The following report presents a number of projects in brief...

The Gotthard Road Tunnel (GRT), just under 17 km in length and part of the Swiss freeway system, opened to traffic in 1980, and used by more than 160...

In the Essen Underground system the old covers for cable troughs made of timber and concrete slabs were replaced by special glass fibre light...

Unfortunately the construction schedule is not available. The 64 km long Brenner Base Tunnel (BBT) is a flat trajectory railway tunnel between...

Europe’s largest artificial lake landscape and a new tourist region are being created where formerly excavators won brown coal by opencast mining:...

The fourth TBM Conference organised by MEYCO Global Underground Construction and tailored specifically to the needs of tunnel-boring machines...