Greetings from Thailand. The World Tunnel Congress and 38th General Assembly (WTC 2012) will be held in Bangkok from 18th to 23rd May 2012. This is the first time that Thailand will host the ITA-AITES...
At the beginning of April 2011 Bavaria’s minister of transport and the network executive of the Deutsche Bahnen (DB) signed the contract for financing and building the roughly 10 km long 2nd main...
Work has begun on a further tunnel for the 107 km long new rail link between Ebensfeld and Erfurt designed to cope with trains travelling up to 300 km/h – involving 22 tunnels altogether 41 km in...
Monitoring TBM cutter wear without accessing the cutting face was once something discussed as a future goal in tunneling. This advancement is now near reality with a new remote cutter monitoring...
Nowadays the opportunities in modern tunnelling are apparently unlimited. Mammoth projects such as the Gotthard Base Tunnel or the rail tunnel through the Bering Strait mainly show one thing:...
Work has commenced on the installation of the rail technology for the Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT) for the north as well. On September 2, 2011 Renzo Simoni, CEO of the AlpTransit Gotthard AG (ATAG),...
The 3,756 m long, twin-track Eierberge Tunnel was broken through at its south portal on August 29, 2011 following 14 months of construction. The tunnel is part of the new and upgraded...
26th Christian Veder Colloquium, Graz/A April 28/29, 2011. Association of Underground Engineering, Group for Geotechnics Graz. Edited by: M. Dietzel, S. Kieffer, W. Schubert, F.H. Schweiger and B....
The breakthrough of the second bore for the 5.5 km long Bosruck Tunnel designed for 2 lanes took place on August 11, 2011 after only 17 months of construction. It occurred 2.5 months earlier than...
