The New Schlüchtern Tunnel is nearly 4 k m long and possesses 9 m internal diameter. It was driven using a tunnel boring machine (TBM) at a distance of 50 to 90 m from the existing tunnel [1-4]. As...
The new roughly 27 km long Semmering Base Tunnel can now be built for Austria’s supreme railway authority confirmed its environmental compatibility on May 30, exactly a year after the relevant...
The 6.4 km long Tauern Tunnel (1971/1975) on the A10 motorway was provided with a second bore (2006/2010) following the accident in 1999 while the existing bore was redeveloped at the same time. In...
1 Introduction
1.1 The St. Petersburg metro
St. Petersburg was established by Czar Peter the Great in 1703 to secure strategically important access to the Baltic Sea for Russia. The city was built on...
At present, the government of the city and island state of Singapore is massively expanding its transportation network to be able to do justice to constantly rising traffic volume on the rail and...
The work was awarded
to the JV Tunnel Schwäbisch Gemünd consisting of the companies Ed. Züblin AG, Baresel GmbH, G. Hinteregger & Söhne Baugesellschaft m.b.H. and ÖSTU-STETTIN Hoch- und...
The 17 km long Gotthard Road Tunnel possesses a 2-lane bore operating bidirectionally with a parallel negotiable evacuation tunnel. It was opened in 1980. During the next few years the surfacing and...
The Zurich cross-city link (DML) embraces the new Zurich-Alstetten – Hauptbahn-hof – Zurich-Oerlikon railway route, the 4-track underground through station Löwenstraße as well as the extension...
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...
