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...
In the course of the visit to China by the German Minister of Economy and Energy, Sigmar Gabriel, a contract was signed on April 23, 2014 in Kunshan (Jiangsu Province) for the delivery of two tunnel...
The 7th BrennerCongress held in late February 2014 was organised by the University of Innsbruck and the Bolzano Chamber of Engineers, in cooperation with the Galleria di Base del Brennero Brenner...
For the third time after 2009 and 2011 the segment as a precision product took centre stage at the by now well established Formwork Days Conference, which took place at the end of March 2014 in the...
At present the Vogelfluglinie ferries travel between Puttgarden on the German island of Fehmarn and Rødby on the Danish island of Lolland. In the process, they cross the 19 km wide Fehmarn Belt....
The 3,576 m long Old Schlüch-
tern Tunnel on the main line between Frankfurt and Fulda was opened in 1914. With a total of 260 passenger and goods trains daily it was one of Germany’s busiest rail...
At the end of April Crossrail announced that Simon Wright has been appointed as new Programme Director. Simon Wright, currently Project Development Director at Network Rail, and previously Director of...
When it opens the 57 km long Gotthard Base Tunnel between Erstfeld in the Canton of Uri and Bodio in Ticino will be the world’s longest rail tunnel. Its two single-track tunnel bores are linked with...
After only three months of work a Robbins 6.15 m (20.2 ft) diameter EPB machine finished its excavation task in China’s capital Beijing. The machine had bored through 2.3 km (1.4 mi) of soft soils,...
Conveyance of the excavated material from the cutting wheel towards the rear must therefore be carried out by a circuitous route with the material first being lifted by the cutting wheel and then...
