The Bulgarian capital Sofia hosted the First International Conference for Geotechnical and Tunnel Construction Geo Projects 2011 between October 12th and 14th, 2011. The conference was organized by...
The 6th Tunnel Fair on “Innovation Underground” (IUT ‘11) [1] (September 14/15, 2011) held in the vicinity of Sargans (some 3,000 visitors) provided a further highlight with its seminar...
Tunnellers caught up with each other at the 2011 STUVA Conference.
Established for many years as the “tunnellers’ get-together” and held in high esteem in expert circles the STUVA Conference...
1 Fixed Fire Fighting Systems (FFFS) in Tunnels
1.1 Introduction
Fixed fire fighting systems (FFFS) are an active way of combating fires in tunnels (Fig. 1). They are a new method of improving fire...
1 Introduction
Prague is the capital and also largest city of the Czech Republic. An important part of the public transportation system is the Prague Metro. The public transportation network...
1 General information on the Brenner Base Tunnel
The Brenner Base Tunnel, according to the new Strategic planning of TEN-T policy (2014 to 2020), is a part of the future TEN No. 5 corridor Helsinki...
The 5th BrennerCongress takes place on February 16 + 17, 2012 at the Innsbruck Fair parallel to the Viatec trade fair. So far the international symposium has taken place at Innsbruck in 2007, 2008 and...
If you believe InnoTrans 2012 deals exclusively with trains and tracks you’re making a big mistake. Admittedly the international top fair for rail transport technology from September 18 to 21, 2012...
A toast to the birthday child. The first issue of tunnel appeared 30 years ago. Even although some us are thinking about retiring after 30 years’ professional grind – it doesn’t mean you‘re...
The STUVA Xmas Party was scheduled for December 20, 2011. Deserved relaxation following an extremely strenuous but once again highly successful STUVA Conference for the entire team. Successful in many...
