A tunnel excavator must take advantage of constricted space and in the process usually fulfil rigorous work for a good 24 h without a break. Generally this machine is subjected to particular...
In an opening address the FGU president Felix Amberg dealt with the introduction of the current safeguarding instruments roughly 15 years ago in conjunction with the major construction projects for...
In Germany up until the end of 2008 more than 2.5 million m² of excavated area – pertaining to the external diameter of tunnels – was permanently secured using a single-shell, watertight...
The Yalong River one of the main tributaries of the Yangtze is situated in the southwest of the Province of Sichuan. It often flows in deep gorges through the mountainous Tibetan high plateau and the...
The Brightwater Project in Seattle, King County, is numbered among the largest building projects in the USA, which are part of a national project for the comprehensive renovation and expansion of the...
Budapest operates Europe’s second oldest Metro system and the oldest one on the mainland. Back in May 1896 on the occasion of the millennium celebrations marking a thousand years of Hungary, the...
Welcome dear participants to the ITA-AITES World Tunnel Congress 2009, dear professional readers and colleagues. Part of it entails paying a visit to the Hungarian Republic, which is situated in...
The 4-track upgrading of the section between Mainz Central Station and Mainz-Süd belongs to the development of the Mainz-Mannheim route. After the new 2-track Mainz Tunnel was commissioned in October...
Sandvik has unveiled its new tunnelling jumbo series, initially intended for selected markets in Europe, North and South America and the Far East. The DTi series tunnelling jumbos embrace 4 different...
The city of Oslo/N decided in 1983 to improve traffic along its fjord (the bay of Bjorvika)
(Fig. 1). They used this opportunity to give much more room to urban development, but also to create a more...
