Only a few years ago it was hard for graduates to find an appropriate job as a construction engineer immediately after finishing their studies. Often jobs as “trainees” were accepted, which in...
Mixing and grouting systems made by Häny are being used to construct the new Alstetten – Zurich Main Station - Oerlikon cross-city underground link in Switzerland. In contract section 3 (Weinberg...
The existing Zentralbahn route between the locations of Grafenort and Engelberg in Switzerland possesses extremely steep gradients and thus only low travelling seeds are possible. As a result a...
The International Congress on Traffic and Safety in Road Tunnels was held in Hamburg for the fifth time. Pöyry Infra Traffic stages the congress as a platform for an exchange of experience among experts, for the answering of questions posed by interested parties and for companies, which wish to present their products and solutions to problems.
The Südbahn represents an important rail link within Austria and at the same time is an element of the pan-European Corridor VI from the Baltic states leading to the north of Italy.
Tunnels throughout Europe are tested each year within the scope of the ADAC Tunnel Test. As a result a data bank has been created containing details on safety in numerous tunnels. The results of this year’s test were announced recently and are presented in the following.
Safety in tunnels is being accorded ever greater importance – and this for good reason. This
applies equally to road and rail tunnels throughout the world. In the following report a smoke removal system for the Central Station in Antwerp in Belgium is presented.
For constructing the Bjørvika Underwater Tunnel in Oslo/Norway (Fig. 1) extremely high demands are placed on fire protection. The following report presents them in brief.
Artificial subsurface freezing for creating statically sustainable and watertight frost zones has proved itself on many occasions in the past as an accompanying measure in tunnelling and has actually...
An initial description of the contract sections 3.1 and 3.2 was published in tunnel 4/2008. The following report deals with further progress made by work on this important inner urban project.
