On the occasion of the World Tunnel Congress Herrenknecht is presenting state-of-the-art tunnelling technology with emphasis on the Latin American region. To cope with the changing ground conditions...
No matter how exciting and complex the topic of tunnelling may be, most people know relatively little about it. Unlike you, our dear readers, who have to do with tunnelling in some form or other on a...
The breakthrough of the Scheibengipfel Tunnel for the Reutlingen bypass has been accomplished. On January 27, 2014 a Max Bögl excavator broke through the last partition wall at the south portal with...
As link to the Interstate 195 and 95 freeways the 1.2 km long Port of Miami Tunnel with two bores, each with two lanes, underpasses the channel for the world’s biggest cruise ship harbour on the...
A new dumper “made in Germany” with a capacity of 25 t was introduced at the bauma in Munich last year by the family business from Meppen run by the owner. According to the manufacturer, after a...
With a 4.5 million investment Systemair – which claims to be the leading manufacturer of products and systems for comfort and safety ventilation – has further developed the significance of its...
Well over 1,600 participants and 150 leading exhibitors from home and abroad got together in late November 2013 at the ICS in Stuttgart for the 2013 STUVA Conference for an exchange of experience on...
Once again Salzburg was the venue for the Austrian Society for Geotechnics’ Geomechanics Colloquium on October 10 and 11, 2013 involving numerous participants with many also from abroad. It is still...
Stuttgart’s dead-end station is to be transformed into a through station and then link up towards the south with the 50 km long new Wendlingen-Ulm route involving four 4.8 to 8.8 km long tunnels...
Tunnelling machines change the world, urban panoramas and landscapes. They facilitate communication and connect places, which previously could only be reached with considerable difficulty. Tranquility...
