The people of Copenhagen can relish the thought of continuing to enjoy distance heating. Towards this end the power company Københavns Energi undertook its biggest construction project so far:...
Following the opening of the STUVA Conference bearing the motto “Tunnels – Key to sustainable Mobility” and the opening speech on “The new HafenCity Hamburg: Urban Planning Concept and Traffic...
The Metro network in downtown Düsseldorf will be rounded off by the Wehrhahn line, towards this end the existing Heinrich-Heine-Allee Metro Station will be intersected and will gain great importance...
The roughwork execution and the concreting operations for the inner lining also progressed parallel to the drive at all construction sites. At the end of 2009, 85 from 176 cross-passages had been...
Significance of the Ceneri Base Tunnel
The ramps of the present railway route at the Ceneri possess gradients of up to 26 ‰. If the Ceneri Base Tunnel were not to be built additional locomotives...
Requirements on Surveying
At the very most 25 cm crosswise and along the tunnel and 12.5 cm in elevation are tolerated as deviations for the Gotthard breakthroughs. In order to remain inside these...
Major Structure on a constricted Space
The Gotthard Base Tunnel’s northern access has been under construction in the Reusstal since 2005 – a valley which already contains important transit routes:...
The rail technology embraces all components and systems, which belong to the “actual rail technical system”: the track, electric installations for supplying power for the rail technology and the...
On April 9, 2010 Ministerialrat Dipl.-Ing. Joachim Naumann, the head of the section for bridges, tunnels and other engineering structures in the highways department at the Federal Ministry of...
The Asfinag as operator of the motorway in Austria has commissioned the construction of a second tunnel bore with 5 breakdown bays and
11 cross-passages (6 of them negotiable with vehicles) for the...
