In early 2022, Dr.-Ing. Carsten Peter has become a member of the management team at Bung-PEB Tunnelbauingenieure. Carsten Peter graduated in civil engineering from the Ruhr University Bochum in 1996....
Scaling in drainage systems has been a major problem for a long time. In the past decades, research in this field has focused on the construction materials used and the common construction techniques....
After a break in 2020 due to covid and a hybrid conference at the Congress Center Rosengarten in Mannheim in 2021, the 7th Rock Mechanics and Tunnelling Day on 23 June 2022 will once again take place at the WBI Center in Weinheim.
At the end of January 2022, Obermeyer Infrastruktur GmbH & Co. KG was awarded the contract by DB Netz AG for the planning of the new railway line between Innleiten and Kirnstein (Germany). The company will work on this contract in a consortium with Amberg Engineering AG.
In December 2021, Implenia was awarded a contract by project owner Wärme Hamburg to build a tunnel under the River Elbe for Hamburg’s new district heating network. The project is worth around E72 million euros, and Implenia is responsible for the detailed design and basic construction of the tunnel and the district heating pipe, as well as for planning and installing the required operating technology.
Hochtief UK has been awarded a 207 million British pound (240 million euros) power supply tunnel project by National Grid in Wales. The project is part of the Visual Impact Provision project in the Snowdonia National Park near Porthmadog in the north of the country.
In the presence of numerous guests of honour, the underground research centre ZaB – Zentrum am Berg was officially opened and taken into operation on 18 October 2021 at the Styrian Erzberg. With the completion of the ZaB – Zentrum am Berg, Austria is signalling a forward strategy with unquestionably positive effects for both the scientific and the economic sectors.
In the presence of numerous guests of honour, the underground research centre ZaB – Zentrum am Berg was officially opened and taken into operation on 18 October 2021 at the Styrian Erzberg.
For the first time in STUVA history, two first-place winners in the “Youth Forum” competition were awarded at the STUVA 2021 Conference (Image,left: award winner Sebastian Kube, M. Sc.; right: award...
