Six new rescue trains with modernised locomotives and backed up by a reserve train are foreseen for the tunnels on the Hanover–Würzburg and Würzburg–Mannheim–Stuttgart high-speed lines. With a...
The DB Projekt Stuttgart–Ulm GmbH passed the 20 km mark for tunnelling on the Stuttgart 21 project at the end of September 2016, meaning that more than a third of the tunnels for the reorganisation...
The international formwork company Doka based in Amstetten, Austria, has appointed graduate construction engineer and experienced industry expert Jens Günther as the newest member of its board. From...
Since May 2016, about 150 employees have been at work on the drill and blast excavation of the nearly 3000 m long second Perjen Tunnel in Austria. A site visit in the middle of October showed that all...
Approximately 20 km south of Innsbruck, near the town of Steinach am Brenner, the Wolf 2 construction lot and access tunnel of the same name are situated. The Wolf access tunnel, one of the most...
For a number of years now bright top layers have been installed on tunnel carriageways in Luxembourg – in order to enhance safety while at the same time cutting back on energy required for lighting....
In the course of the refurbishment of the Swiss Zuben Tunnel on the Grimsel Pass road near Innertkirchen, the existing chloride-damaged concrete lining of the road tunnel, which was built in the...
Classical music sounded from the loudspeakers down into the site, but could not drown out the chorus and whistling of the demonstrators in the background: scraps of speech and insults were still...
A number of years ago the Great Beirut Water Supply project (GBWSP) was established to improve the drinking water provision of the greater Beirut area and strengthen the weakly structured southern...
On September 25, 2016 Qatar Rail completed tunnelling on the Doha Metro project with the final breakthrough of the “Red Line South” with the seven meter tunnel boring machine “Msheireb”, taking place at Terminal One of Hamad International Airport. It was the last of 76 breakthroughs in the gigantic project Doha Metro. The TBM breaking through marks the finale of one of the most ambitious tunnel structures in the world. Cleverly master-planned by client Qatar Rail, it took just 26 months to provide the capital of Qatar with three city-wide metro lines including 111 km of ultra-modern tunnel systems.
