From May 9th to May 15th 2014, Brazil will be the focus of the international tunnelling community. The country and the whole Latin American region have already called the world‘s attention due to the expansion in infrastructure and the number of ongoing projects involving tunnels.
The STUVA team would like to wish Prof. Martin Ziegler all the best on the occasion of his 60th birthday at the end of February. We take avail of this opportunity to thank our board chairman for the...
The execution of underground works requires an early assessment of all risks going along with the planning phase and its comprehensive control during construction to establish acceptable levels of security. This is achieved by placing a sensor network to register a series of values of the most significant parameters of the machines – TBMs and auxiliary tools – geotechnical measurements and existing structures that may be affected during progression of works.
The Südbahn represents a significant inner-Austrian railway link and is at the same time a part of the pan-European Corridor VI from the Baltic states to Upper Italy, connecting the Baltic Sea with...
The InnoTrans Fair will take place in Berlin again from September 23 to 26 and this time around there’s something to celebrate: for the 10th time the event will welcome the railway branch – but...
One of the biggest urban European infrastructure projects was completed in 2013, ten years after work started on building the 1.5 km long Leipzig City Tunnel. The core of the new 5279 m long,...
Start of construction and construction halted in the same month: work on the first contract section of the Semmering Base Tunnel had scarcely begun in January when the Austrian administrative court...
Crossrail is currently Europe’s largest infrastructure project – from Maidenhead and Heathrow in the west to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east of the English capital – involving a new 118 km...
In December 2013, a 4.3 m (14.1 ft) Robbins Double Shield TBM broke through according to plan after boring a 9.3 km (5.8 mi) tunnel in Turkey’s Adana Province for the Yamanli II Hydroelectric...
Based on more than 50 years of experience and the technological know-how of a leading provider of concrete pumping and placing equipment, Putzmeister has developed a range of tunneling and mining...
