Excavation of Turkey’s longest water tunnel came to an end in December 2018. To get there, a 5.56 m diameter Robbins Crossover (XRE) TBM and the contractor JV of Kolin/Limak had to overcome dozens of...
In February 2019 the China Railway Engineering Equipment Group (CREG) and French multi-service vehicle (MSV) manufacturer Metalliance have announced a strategic partnership comprising a cooperation in...
The Swiss Tunnelling Society will stage the Swiss Tunnel Congress (STC) for the 18th time this year. From June 4 to 6, 2019, the STC will be held in Lucerne’s Culture and Convention Centre (KKL) in...
On 1 January 2019, Dipl.-Ing. Lars Langmaack (49) joined MC-Bauchemie as Technical Director TBM within the company’s “Tunnelling Systems” unit. In this function, he is responsible for product and...
Tunnel link to the future Main Station underthe former Railway Directorate The DB Projekt Stuttgart–Ulm GmbH is making rapid progress with one of the technically most complex parts of the Stuttgart 21...
The final double breakthrough of the two Herrenknecht tunnel boring machines „Anna“ and „Magda“ (Double Shield TBM, Ø 9,900 mm) in the Norwegian Ski completed the excavation of both 20-kilometer-long...
Special regulations have to be observed with regard to safe railway operation while carrying out work such as pipe-jacking or tunnelling under railway tracks. Towards this end, what is known as safetoring must be undertaken by means of a suitable measuring system and method. Safetoring is (deformation) monitoring with directly coupled measurement data evaluation so that the existing track position and the availability of the infrastructure can be assessed at any time, thus enabling direct intervention in the railway and construction activities should the limit or alarm values be exceeded.
On the Berne-Olten-Zurich railway line in Switzerland, the stretch between Gretzenbach and Wöschnau, which is the sole remaining twin-track section, forms a bottleneck. This situation is to be rectified by late 2020 by widening the line between Olten and Aarau to provide four tracks. This upgrade will increase the route’s availability and capacity as well as it will attain more flexibility. We reported on the 3.1 km long Eppenberg Tunnel in issue 8/2017 of tunnel. This article thus merely provides a brief summary of the overall project and concentrates on the findings obtained from the construction sections already completed as well as the current status.
In the event of a fire in an underground transport station, smoke gas flows are mostly cleared to ground level through the entrances and exits. This not only pollutes the escape and rescue routes inside the station with smoke gases but also the assembly places above ground, surrounding buildings and potential working areas for the emergency services. In the Orpheus research project, possibilities have been investigated of minimising the pollution above ground through the layout of the exits and an intentional control of the smoke gases.
In mid-2018 the two tubes of Hamburg’s Wallring Tunnel were opened to traffic again after four years of extensive modernisation. MC-Bauchemie’s fibre-reinforced concrete replacement product Nafufill...
For the refurbishment of the 1545 m long Pians-Quadratsch tunnel system on the Arlberg Schnellstraße S16 in Austria, the fire protection boards were fixed using Multi-Monti screw anchors from Heco....
Cities are facing more challenges than ever before as growing populations put stress on transportation systems, social services, energy infrastructures and other vital aspects of daily life. If...
The STUVA is currently working under a commission of the German Environment Agency on the research project “Acoustic evaluation of the Acoustic Vehicle Alerting System (AVAS)”. This is a system for...
We send heartfelt STUVA greetings to our chairman Prof. Martin Ziegler, who celebrated his 65th birthday at the end of February. Prof. Ziegler has been active on the board of STUVA since 2001 and took...
From 26 to 28 November 2019, the STUVA invites you to Frankfurt for the “Family meeting of the tunnelling industry”. Once again, about 3000 experts from more than 20 countries are expected. For two...
The German DIBt (technical institute serving the construction sector) has awarded TPH’s Rubbertite acrylate gel its certificate for complying with stability requirements on structural facilities in accordance with MVV TB, A 1.2.3.2 (DAfStb Guideline for the Repair of Concrete Components – October 2001) as one of the first repair products for concrete parts.
Professor Jinxiu (Jenny) Yan is currently the vice president of the ITA, vice president of the Chinese Tunnelling and Underground Works Society of CCES and deputy general manager of China Railway...
