Since the new timetable came into force at the end of 2014 the Port of Antwerp possesses a direct rail link from the right to the left bank of the Schelde. The route through the Liefkenshoek rail...
From Jan 1, 2015, ISV Industrie-Steck-Vorrichtungen GmbH has been renamed Marechal GmbH. This change only concerns the naming and the logo. The well-known sales, technical consulting and production...
The Swiss Federal Roads Office (FEDRO/ASTRA) intends increasing safety in the 3.2 km long Belchen Tunnel on the A2 motorway. Towards this end it has invested 128 million Swiss francs since 2008. The ongoing activities to enhance tunnel safety at the Belchen actually represent only the beginning of a major refurbishing programme: 500 million Swiss francs are earmarked for building an additional Belchen Tunnel (STB) for the A2 between Hagendorf in the Canton of Solothurn and Eptingen in the Basle-Land Canton in the period from 2015 to 2022. This will enable the two directionally-separate, twin-lane tunnels dating back to 1970 to be renovated one after the other without traffic being restricted.
At the end of October 2014 the final sections of track were laid in the Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT). This means that the world’s longest rail tunnel can now be negotiated over its entire 57 km length...
Tucked away on a small jobsite in a quiet neighbourhood bordering a busy interstate highway, a Robbins Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) machine underwent Onsite First Time Assembly (OFTA). On November 17, 2014 the 6.65 m (21.8 ft) TBM rumbled to life and began its journey south into the city of Seattle, Washington, USA. The machine, for contractor JCM North Link LLC (a joint venture of Jay Dee, Coluccio, and Michels) is excavating for the North Link Project, which is an extension of Seattle’s light rail system. The project requires twin 5.8 km (3.6 mi) tunnels through glacial till and sand.
The Swedish construction company NCC has been commissioned by the Norwegian Road Administration to construct the Bjørnegård Tunnel on the E16 expressway between Sandvika and Wøyen in Norway. The...
In November 2014 the Deutsche Bahn launched measures for building a new rail tunnel between Ispringen and Pforzheim on the route between Karlsruhe and Mühlacker. The existing 903 m long tunnel was...
The 4847 m long Steinbühl Tunnel and the 8806 m long Boßler Tunnel, both with single-track bores, are part of the 14.5 km long Albaufstieg 2.2 planning approval section, which is an element of the...
The part-section with the 3.1 km long, two-bore Jagdberg Tunnel between the Magdala and Jena/Göschwitz hubs has a key role to play in the upgrading and new development of the federal motorway A4 in...
The SBB (Swiss Federal Railways) awarded the main contract section for the four-track upgrading of the Olten–Aarau route in November 2014. The contract worth some 274 million Swiss francs was awarded to the Marti Eppenberg JV. It involves the roughwork for the Eppenberg Tunnel as well as its accesses in the Wöschnau and in Gretzenbach. The SBB embarked on the preliminary work for the tunnel and its access sections in early September 2014. The main operations are scheduled to start in spring 2015 and will last until late 2020. The upgrade to create a four-track route is being accomplished within the scope of the ZEB major rail infrastructure project.
