On account of the intensive use of the Port of Antwerp/B, especially on the left bank of the River Schelde where 7.5 mill. containers are handled each year, a considerable increase in goods...
1 Arteries for Europe
The European high-speed railway network (Trans-European Network) is being continuously expanded. The major project Stuttgart 21 – Wendlingen–Ulm is located centrally on the...
Owing to increased requirements posed on operating technology and safety in traffic tunnels (RABT 2006 and Direc-tive 2004/54/EC) an ever greater number of installation systems must be taken into...
The liner segments for installation in the second tube of the Pfänder Tunnel near Bregenz/A are precast elements produced from high-quality concrete by a Compactmix 1.0 mixing plant. They are cast at...
The city of Brisbane on the East Coast of Australia is Queensland’s industrial, economic and financial center. Many service companies are located in the city center. Brisbane Central Business...
A large number of infrastructural schemes are being executed in the region for the 2014 Winter Olympics to be held in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. These include a roughly 13 km long bypass for...
In March 2009 the Herren-knecht Formwork Technology GmbH issued an invitation to attend a series of lectures captioned “Innovations and State of the Art for Tunnelling with Segments” at the...
Around 1,100 tunnellers from all over the world assembled in Budapest/H, from May 23rd to 28th, 2009, for the 35th Annual Meeting of the ITA – International Tunnelling and Underground Space...
For temporary (outer) tunnel shells the construction method using steel fibre shotcrete (SFRS) is state of the art and facilitates an initial support without undertaking work in the unsecured area....
1 Location and Traffic Situation
The Pfänder Tunnel forms the bypass for the Bregenz/A area and is located on the A14 Rhine Valley motorway, which is the most important north-south connection in...
