In October 2022, China Overseas Engineering Group Co. Ltd and China Railway No. 2 Engineering Group Co Ltd launched a 6.4 m diameter Robbins Double Shield TBM. It is boring the 13.1 km headrace tunnel...
A consortium consisting of Züblin (technical lead) and the Max Bögl group of companies has been awarded the contract for the construction of the approx. 660 m long Wendlingen Tunnel.
On 7 November, Austria's ASFINAG (Motorway and Expressway Financing Joint-Stock Company) launched the installation of state-of-the-art LED tunnel lighting along a total of eleven kilometres of the...
The modernization of Line 4 of the Paris Metro has been completed with the highest grade of automation and the automatic driverless metros have now begun revenue service. The digitalization and...
Peri’s Bauma exhibition hall on the open-air site North (stand FN 719) in Munich will be themed “Shaping the future” from 24 to 30 October 2022, with exhibits, live demonstrations, individual...
“It‘s dark in front of the pick” – this old German miners’ proverb applies to all types of underground work. Whether it‘s ore mining, fossil fuel extraction or transport and infrastructure tunnelling...
In the tunnel industry, sustainability is no longer just a buzzword. The International Tunneling and Underground Space Association (ITA) itself has taken up this subject and plans to pursue it...
This article describes the development of a high early strength anchor mortar that is to be used in tunnel construction to secure the outer lining of the tunnel. Anchor mortars currently available on...
Extension of the U3 in NurembergOn 23 March 2022, the breakthrough on the last convetionally excavated tunnel section for the extension of underground line 3 in Nuremberg was completed exactly on...
A Kemroc KR 165 rotary drum cutter in combination with a heavy special Liebherr R 960 tunnel excavator became one of the key machines in Nuremberg for driving metro tunnels. Alternating with a classic...
