The roughly 27 km long new Semmering Base Tunnel (nSBT) on the selected Pfaffensattel alignment consists of 2 single-track tunnel bores, which are connected with one another via cross-passages every...
A second bore for the 6.6 km long Pfänder Tunnel was driven with a tunnelling machine
(S-494, Herrenknecht AG) with 11.85 m cutterhead diameter. The support was provided with 25 cm thick and 2 m...
The first upgraded section of the new Lower Inn Valley Railway between Kundl and Baumkirchen will start operating in 2012. From then on goods trains will mainly travel underground, something which...
Argentine and Chile have decided to build a railway tunnel through the Andes, which will directly link the Mendoza region in the mid-west of the Argentine with both states. An appropriate treaty was...
The plan approval decision for the construction section from Helsa-East to Hessisch Lichtenau-West of the A44 motorway also marks work starting on the 4.1 km long Hirschhagen Tunnel, the longest on...
Published by: Österreichische Vereinigung für Beton und Bautechnik (ÖVBB) 12/2009: 93 pp. A4 with 32 Ills./Tables and 16 Sources. 45 euros. ÖVBB, A-1040 Vienna, Karlsgasse 5.Fax 0043.1.504.9599.The...
Together with the Heibel GmbH trade agency the JV Katzenbergtunnel developed a novel system for laying cable protection pipes as ready-made parts in “pack form”. This saves time and space, the...
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...
