Engineering construction is becoming ever more important within the construction branch. It deals with planning and design, production and maintenance of special technical structures. For the first...
The Milchbuck Tunnel (1985) is one of the most important traffic arteries within the bounds of the city of Zurich. It is numbered among the most frequently used single-bore tunnels in Switzerland....
More than 600 experts from Brazil and other countries are expected to participate in the 3rd Brazilian Congress on Tunnels and Underground Structures (3rd CBT) to be held in São Paulo, 20 to 22 March...
At the beginning of February 2012 the German Federal Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel and the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited the Herrenknecht Works (HTE) in Guangzhou/China. Top technology from...
The 3.7 km long Saas Bypass on the A28 national highway with the 2.6 km long, 2-lane Saaser Tunnel (= 69 % of the route) and the parallel 2.3 km long safety tunnel was opened on October 21, 2011...
The 3.3 km long Gubris Tunnel is located in the Zurich North Bypass (A1/A4 North Ring) between the municipalities of Weiningen and Regensdorf. The road tunnel, which opened in 1985, has 2...
Currently the Handeck-Gerstenegg exploratory tunnel is under construction to secure access in winter to the Grimsel 1 and 2 power plants as well as to open up further “KWO plus” projects for the...
The almost 700 m long twin-track Old Busch Tunnel (1843) between Aachen and the Belgian border was reopened on October 23, 2011 on a single-track basis following extensive renovation work. In...
A tunnel is to be produced in Rastatt after all in conjunction with the 4-track upgrading of the Rheintal railway. It will undercut the entire bounds of the city as well as the Federbach lowland area...
It is the biggest individual project within the scope of the “Emscher Redevelopment” – a generation-spanning scheme providing the prerequisite for modernising the region’s hydro-economic...
