The long-standing head of the City of Dortmund’s foundation engineering office stepped down from his position on March 14, 2014. Schließler is now semi-retired, having entered the passive phase of...
Just in time for InnoTrans a new publication on light rail systems will appear in the so-called „Blue Series“ of the Association of German Transport Companies (VDV). The overall processing was...
The DIN working group NA 005-01-11-01 “Barrier-free Construction – Public Transportation and free Spaces” of the Building and Civil Engineering Standards Committee (NABau) undertook the final...
Once again highly topical subjects relating to mobility and tunnelling will be dealt with by the International Tunnel Forum at the InnoTrans in Berlin this year. The STUVA – the Research Association for Underground Transportation Facilities Inc. – is once again responsible for the organization and content of this Forum. Different aspects and in all likelihood different views will be presented and discussed during the two days of the Forum. Every participant will consequently receive stimulation and recommendations for his own activities.
Since the mid-19th century the River Emscher in the German Ruhr District has been used for disposing of wastewater. In the early 1990s, it was decided to replace the existing open wastewater system with a sewer system and to restore the River Emscher to its natural state. The major Emscher conversion project is divided up into a large number of individual schemes, with construction phase 30 being the biggest. By applying the pipe jacking method interlinking conduit sections with section lengths in excess of 1100 m are produced.
In mid-June Tunnel Boring Machine Ellie broke through into a cavern 40 m beneath Stepney Green, in the East End of London. The breakthrough marked the structural completion of tunnels for Crossrail’s north east spur, between Whitechapel and Pudding Mill Lane. According to Andrew Wolstenholme, Crossrail Chief Executive, over 80 per cent of the new rail tunnels for Europe’s largest infrastructure project had been completed with the breakthrough at Stepney Green. Roughly one month later another two percentage points were added to this quota, when Crossrail announced at the end of July that the last of 250 000 concrete segments, used to line the tunnels of Europe’s largest infrastructure project had been manufactured.
The Deutsche Bahn opened the new single-track Kaiser Wilhelm Tunnel on the Moselle route near Cochem on April 7, 2014. Work on the new 4242 m long tunnel started four years ago.
Tunnelling as one of the most complex tasks of civil engineering will be an essential component of the econstra 2014. On October 22 and 23 the fair for construction engineering, architecture and...
Gerlinde Kretschmann, the wife of the Baden-Württemberg regional premier, Winfried Kretschmann, as tunnel sponsor officially inaugurated the start of building for the Albabstieg Tunnel at the end of...
The Kurhessenbahn Railway’s Zierenberg Tunnel which opened back in 1897 has a single track and is 816 m long. As renovation is uneconomic a new 937 m tunnel bore is to be set up parallel 13 to 20 m...
