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...
Climate change, limited natural resources, and a persistent shortage of skilled labour: the global construction machinery industry too must face up to the major problems of the present times. Modern...
When it comes to traffic safety in a tunnel, optimal lighting makes a big difference. To enable the human eye to adapt to the vastly different lighting conditions outside and inside, it’s essential...
The 5.7 km long Kerenzerberg Road Tunnel on the A3 national road is undergoing a safety upgrade and maintenance 35 years after it was opened. A key element of this maintenance is the new construction of a parallel safety gallery. The standard cross section of the safety gallery is characterised by combined usage as a service tunnel with an escape tunnel as well as an exhaust duct.
After numerous digital workshops with lectures and subsequent discussion rounds, it was finally back to the construction site for us, the members of the Forum for Young Engineering Professionals...
The Swiss Federal Roads Office (FEDRO) has announced its decision to award the Gotthard main northern section to the JV “secondo tubo” (Implenia 60%/Frutiger 40%). The order for the 7.9 km long...
There was a sense of relief written all over the organisers‘ faces when, after a delay of more than two years, the 7th Munich Tunnelling Symposium was finally able to open its doors at the University...
On 7 September, Professor Arnold Dix has been elected as the new President of the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA-AITES) during the ITA’s 48th General Assembly held in Copenhagen ...
Für außergewöhnliche und extreme Einsatzbereiche Tunnelbau- und Spezialmaschinen sind das Kerngeschäft von Schöller Special Machines (SSM). Das 2014 gegründete deutsche Unternehmen konstruiert und...
ITC SA, located in the heart of the Alps in Martigny, Switzerland, is a tunnelling equipment designer and supplier. Its application areas are roadway, highway, railway and subway tunnels, tunnels for...
