Traffic safety, relieving congestion and maintaining the existing infrastructure represent the aims of the Austrian state-owned motorway operator ASFINAG. This year the company is investing no less...
The Administrative Council of the AlpTransit Gotthard AG (ATG) elected Dieter Schwank as its new board chairman in mid-February 2017. Currently Dieter Schwank is in charge of the department for legal...
The Hamburg HafenCity is the biggest inner-urban development project in Europe. On behalf of the Hamburg Hochbahn AG the Metro Line U4 is currently being extended in the direction of the bridges over...
Executing a tunnel drive beneath an existing railway line allows the tracks very little room for settling. The excavation must be devised in keeping with these marginal conditions. Furthermore, continuous checking of the track settlement must be assured for control purposes. By installing a corresponding monitoring system, it is possible for the driving operations to be monitored permanently by all those involved and adapted to the given situation.
In 2017 and 2018 work on several new metro line and extension projects will either be started or are currently underway in Bangkok. Services of these new lines and extensions will commence between 2017 and 2023. The additional network will be constructed underground as well as on elevated tracks.
After spending several years with MC-Bauchemie in Brazil, Nicolaus Müller (31), son of Dr.-Ing. Claus-M. Müller, Managing Partner of MC-Bauchemie Müller GmbH & Co.KG, has been appointed Managing...
The DB Projekt Stuttgart-Ulm GmbH started work in mid-February 2017 at the Rosensteinpark in Stuttgart in the vicinity of the Ehmannstraße employing mining means to produce the intersecting structure...
Numerous factors must be considered when planning and building a tunnel. This applies particularly when tracks or a motorway run above it. As for instance in the case of the metro extension beneath...
In Germany, tunnel projects with a relatively constant cumulated length of about 170 km per year are to be expected. From the formwork manufacturers’ point of view these projects will be of great...
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