Since 2015, the international competition “ITA Tunnelling Awards” seeks and rewards groundbreaking innovations and outstanding projects in tunnelling and underground space use. In November 2019 the...
Christian Späth (51) is taking over as head of the civil engineering division at Implenia, Switzerland’s leading construction and construction services company, as of 1 January 2020. He also joins...
From 22 to 25 September 2020, the leading trade fair for transport technology InnoTrans will once again have a dedicated area for the segment Tunnel Construction: whether manufacturers of tunnel...
Since summer 2019 two track-mounted jaw crushers plants (a GIPOBAC B 1185 PB FDR and a GIPOBAC B 1385 PB FDR) and a feed point on runners from the Swiss company GIPO are being used for material...
The 6th Rock Mechanics & Tunneling Day will be held on 7 May 2020 at the WBI-Center in Weinheim (Bergstraße), Germany. It is organized by WBI Consulting Engineers together with the German Railway (DB)...
Malaysia has emerged as an innovative tunnelling countrie in the last decade having won at least three major global tunnelling innovation awards. This year, the World Tunnel Congress (WTC) will be...
DB Breaks through to the Main Station from the South with the First TunnelThe next breakthrough on the Stuttgart 21 Project: on 11 February 2020, the tunnel drive from the south arrived at the future...
Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology has launched its latest development for tunneling excavation, the DT1132i jumbo. The new Sandvik DT1132i tunneling jumbo itself is a three-boom, electro-hydraulic...
The Norwegian city of Bergen has contracted the construction of Løvstakktunnel, a 3 km long metro tunnel and a parallel multi-use pedestrian and cycling tunnel, which is connected by six passages and...
The B31 is one of the main roads with the heaviest traffic in the administrative district of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg (Germany). The 7 km long section between Immenstaad and Friedrichshafen should...
In autumn 2018 the Abu Dhabi Sewerage Services Company (ADSSC) commissioned the UK construction company Joseph Gallagher International with the project “Construction of Deep Gravity Line” in Abu Dhabi...
Safety first in mining and tunnelling: For this reason, the German machine manufacturer GHH is pushing the use of radio remote controls where ever it suits the application. Its T-RX100J model is...
Construction of the new two-track Bözberg rail tunnel is the largest individual project of the SBB on the 4-m corridor along the Gotthard axis between Basle and Chiasso. Switzerland. It is intended to...
In a pilot project, the company Marti GmbH Deutschland investigated which BIM-based applications should be implemented in conventional tunnelling, and the process of recording the condition of the...
The STUVA Conference in Frankfurt am Main from 26 to 28 November 2019 impressively demonstrated why it is regarded as the most important fair of its kind worldwide: More than 2000 registered...
On behalf of German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, North Rhine-Westphalia’s Prime Minister Armin Laschet awarded Prof. Adolf Müller-Hellmann the “Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class” on 31...
For his achievements in teaching as well as his professional and scientific merits, the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) awarded the title of Honorary Professor to Roland Leucker, managing director of...
The Taschenbuch für den Tunnelbau (Tunnelling Pocketbook) is a practically oriented source of advice for clients, designers and contractors that deals with current developments and innovative problem...
