The Stuttgart 21 project plans the creation of two additional tracks on the Stuttgart-Ulm-Augsburg route for a top speed of 250 km/h. The altogether 60 km long new route between Wendlingen and Ulm...
Since building officially began in 1993 with the first exploratory tunnel in the geologically tricky Piora Zone, altogether 152 km of tunnels, shafts and headings have been excavated. Tunnel driving...
The Koralm Tunnel KAT2 Project
The Koralm Tunnel is a central project for the ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG on the Baltic-Adriatic rail route. The altogether 32.8 km long tunnel links Styria with Kärnten in...
Earth Pressure Balance (EPB) tunneling in mixed ground conditions is a challenging prospect, as it often includes excavation in boulder fields, sections of rock, and sticky clay. A given tunnel may be...
The Falkenberg Tunnel represents an essential part of the upgraded Hanau-Aschaffenburg-Würzburg route and is being produced to the south of the existing rail line and the Schwarzkopf Tunnel. Work...
The Kennedy rail tunnel running beneath the Schelde to the south of Antwerp was built in 1969 for the Antwerp-Gent link. Owing to enhanced safety measures, which have since been introduced, the tunnel...
The InnoTrans starts in Berlin on September 23. Alongside the presentation of products and opportunities for professional advancement, the exhibition provides the chance to recruit new staff,...
The 1800 m long, four-lane road tunnel de la Croix-Rousse in Lyon between the banks of the Rhone and the Saône passes beneath the Croix-Rousse chain of hills. Owing to the age of the structure – it...
The Bioceánico Aconcagua Consortium has presented Argentina and Chile with the draft for building a roughly 52 km long rail Base Tunnel through the Andes, devised to make rail transportation between...
The 21st Darmstadt Geotechnics Colloquium at the end of March 2014 dealt with the topics monitoring and process automation, ground improvement technologies, urban construction/redevelopment and legal...
