Preparations are in full swing for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Apart from sports facilities and accommodation, an ultra-modern and efficient traffic infrastructure is also being built....
The 57 km long Gotthard Base Tunnel with its 2 single-track bores and 2 Multi-Function Stations 1/3rd and 2/3rds of the way along the tunnel with emergency stops and crossovers given up to 2,500 m...
The German tunnel Forum got off to a successful start on October 18, 2011 at the Hotel Günneweg in Cologne. STUVA and the Bauverlag magazine tunnel began this series of events with the intention of...
On the twin-track Lahntal route the 319 m long Hollrich Tunnel and the 232 m long Langenau Tunnel between Nassau and Obernhof were built in 1860 and are located some 1,000 m apart. After more than 150...
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),...
