1 Project Overview
1.1 Constructing in an urban Built-up Area
The City Ring project perimeter consists of the Lehnen Viaduct running along the Reuss in the north, the roughly 600 m long Reussport...
1 Background and Aims of the Working Group
The Working Group on “Tunnel Redevelopment” was prompted by the findings obtained from carrying out the first 2 projects concerned with enlarging the...
1 Introduction
Tunnel lining with segmental rings behind TBMs are reinforced concrete elements and must be calculated and designed according to the standards of reinforced concrete constructions....
At the end of December 2011, as foreseen 670 m of the 15.4 km long Ceneri Base Tunnel had been excavated by drill+blast for the north drive started in June 2009 at Vigana (Camorino). At the beginning...
As from late 2011 a roughly 2 km long tunnel is being driven to explore the largest Alpine fault zone, the Periadriatic Seam, as part of the 64 km long Brenner Base Tunnel project. It will take some 2...
The 4,019 m long Saverne Tunnel will be provided with 2 single-track bores, which will be linked every 500 m by cross-passages. This is where the Vosges range is at its narrowest. The 2 tunnel bores...
The Wehrhahn Line, a 300 million euro Metro project, is intended to relieve traffic in downtown Düsseldorf once it opens in 2015, for it will replace several tram routes operating on the surface. For...
The more than 4.2 km long twin-track Kaiser Wilhelm Tunnel (1877) between Cochem and Ediger-Eller had to be redeveloped. As a result it was decided to build a new Kaiser Wilhelm Tunnel set some 15 m...
Within the scope of the Linthal 2015 project, the capacity of the Linth-Limmern AG Power Station is being augmented by 1,000 MW through adding the Limmern pumped-storage hydro station. At present the...
On January 19, 2012, the joint ESIMAS project was inaugurated at the Federal Highways Research Institute (BASt). ESIMAS (Echtzeit-Sicherheits-Management-System) stands for Real Time Safety Management...
