On 22 June, the breakthrough took place in the construction of the ElbX tunnel across the Elbe, carried out on behalf of TenneT Germany and in collaboration with the project partners. The tunnel...
From 8 to 9 October, the 75th Geomechanics Colloquium of the Austrian Society for Geomechanics (ÖGG) will take place at the “Salzburg Congress” conference centre. This year’s colloquium is dedicated...
With around 600 registered companies and more than 32 000 square metres of booked exhibition space, exhibitors from the Railway Infrastructure and Tunnel Construction sectors are seeing significant...
After advancing about 3.8 km through rock that was at times extremely hard and at times brittle, the miners working on the northern section of the second tube of the Gotthard Road Tunnel reached their...
Following the derailment of a freight train in the Gotthard Base Tunnel in August 2023, SBB (Swiss Federal Railways) examined measures to mitigate the impact in the event of an incident. In mid-May...
On June 11, 2026, the 11th Rock Mechanics and Tunnelling Day took place at the WBI Center in Weinheim, Germany. This year’s well-attended conference focused on the topics “Innovations in Tunnel...
In June 2026, Hochtief has appointed Peter Hingott as Chief Executive Officer of Hochtief Infrastructure. He succeeds José Ignacio Legorburo, who has been appointed as Executive Vice President...
In April 2026, a consortium comprising Hochtief CZ, Hochtief Infrastructure, Subterra, and BeMo Tunneling was awarded the contract for the next construction phase of Prague’s Metro Line D. Delivered...
ElbX Tunnel Under the River ElbeAt the end of 2025, 50 per cent of the 5.2 km-long tunnel section of the ElbX Crossing has been successfully excavated by the joint venture ARGE Tunnel ElbX, (Porr...
Science meets mechanical engineering, theory meets practice, and academia meets industry. And Zurich meets Schwanau. Georgios Anagnostou and Martin Herrenknecht have a good reason to meet: A joint study by ETH Zurich and Herrenknecht AG on the feasibility of a tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar has been finalised and concludes that this long-cherished dream is now technically feasible. A conversation among experts.
