The tunnel under construction is part of the extended Schuman-Josaphat S-Bahn network around Brussels/B. This network is intended to improve the train frequencies and speeds on the rail lines up to 30...
1 Introduction
The moment had arrived on August 27, 2009. Practically almost 9 months after work officially began on the tunnel on September 26, 2008, the official breakthrough of the first of the 2...
1 Introduction
On August 8, 2009, the new Metro section between the Central Station and the Pariser Platz was opened by the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (Fig. 1). This means that the first part-section...
The Swiss Tunnelling Society (FGU) of the Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA) once again staged its 8th convention, the Swiss Tunnel Congress in Lucerne/CH on June 17th and 18th, 2009 in...
The new “HafenCity” district being built in Hamburg has necessitated the construction of a new underground railway line to link it to the city centre. The U4 line runs from the existing...
Bypassing the centre of the town of Neckargemünd represents the most extensive project on a county road in the history of the Rhein-Neckar District – work has been in progress here since 1999....
In addition to their proven products such as segment moulds/pre-cast concrete segment production plants and tunnel formwork systems Ceresola TLS AG incorporated around 3 years ago the “canopy pipe...
The bauma from April 19 to 25, 2010, International Trade Fair for Construction Machinery, Building Material Machines, Mining Machines, Construction Vehicles and Construction Equipment will again be...
Frequently sensitive buildings are located within the sphere of influence of tunnels, which have to be correspondingly secured against irreconcilable effects. The inter-actions between the existing...
The absence of muck cars allows for continual operation behind TBMs, factoring into recent weekly EPB advances as high as 210 m.
“The Robbins-supplied tunnel conveyor system performed remarkably...
