The Swiss Tunnelling Society (STS/FGU) as part of the Swiss Engineers and Architects Association (SIA) staged the 15th Swiss Tunnel Congress at the Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre from June 15 to 17, 2016. Around 800 visitors took part in the lecture programme. The Swiss Tunnel Colloquium for students, young engineers and technicians on the previous day attracted 400 participants, making the 15th Swiss Tunnel Congress (STC) the one to have attracted the largest attendance figure.
The Herrenknecht AG has been honoured with Germany’s oldest prize for innovation. Dr.-Ing. E. h. Martin Herrenknecht, founder and chairman of the board,
accepted the Diesel Medal in the...
The Samnaunerstraße connects the Lower Engadine with the town of Samnaun in the Swiss canton of Graubünden (Grisons). Particularly at the current Val Pischöt gallery, the road no longer meets...
On November 10 and 11, 2016, the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA) is presenting the second edition of its ITA Tunnelling Awards. Participation has been highly competitive this year, with 98 entries from 25 countries competing for awards in nine categories. The judging panel with 17 experts, chaired by ITA President Tarcísio Celestino, concluded the review of entries in July; 33 entries have been selected as finalists.
At the end of April 2016, the enlarged and modernised St. Maurice Tunnel in the Swiss canton of Valais was reopened. For this project, which is part of the modernisation and redesign of the Simplon Line, the tunnel profile was enlarged for the passage of double-decker trains.
An agreement between The Robbins Company and the Chinese Northern Heavy Industries (NHI) Group was finalized on June 28, 2016 in Shenyang, capital of northeast China’s Liaoning Province. This initial agreement is the first step of a three-phase merger process and gives NHI minority interest in The Robbins Company. Based in Shenyang, NHI employs 10 000 people and is among China’s top three heavy machinery manufacturers.
Since December 2013 a 4.8 km freeway tunnel is under construction to link Hong Kong to the new Liantang/Heung Yuen Wai border crossing with mainland China. The tunnel is built by Dragages Hong Kong...
Altogether 500 million Swiss francs will be invested for redeveloping the 3.2 km long Belchen Tunnel. The scheme began in 2015. A JV comprising the companies Marti Tunnelbau, Marti Basel und Marti Solothurn is charged with building the new tube on the Swiss A2 motorway between Hägendorn in the Canton of Solothurn and Eptingen in the Canton of Basle-Land on behalf of the Swiss Federal Roads Office (FEDRO/ASTRA). Once completed in 2022, the new tunnel will enable the two directionally-separate, two-lane tubes of the original Belchen Tunnel dating back to 1970 to be refurbished without restricting traffic.
The Austrian Ministry of Transport announced in mid-March 2016 that the green light had been given for constructing the east section of the S 7 Fürstenfelder Expressway following the issue of a...
The new construction of the Karawanken tunnel is picking up speed also from an architectural point of view. The tunnel construction is scheduled to start at the end of 2017 or beginning of 2018. The tunnel portals will be architecturally redesigned after completion of the new and the refurbishment oft he existing tunnel. Hertl, an architecture firm based in Steyr, Upper Austria, won the competition, which was initiated throughout Austria by the ASFINAG.
