The Swiss Elkuch Group has been awarded with the replacement of emergency doors in the Great Belt Tunnel (Storebælttunnelen) in Denmark by Sund & Bælt Holding A/S. The two tubes of the Great Belt...
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. The tunnel is...
The Greek Tunnelling Society organizes the World Tunnel Congress (WTC) 2023 from 12 to 18 May 2023 in the city of Athens. The WTC is the premier annual event of the International Tunnelling...
The CEM III/A 52.5 N-SR cement developed by Schwenk sets new standards in tunnel construction in terms of environmental compatibility. Thanks to a lower proportion of clinker, around 160 000 t of CO2...
Gigantic construction projects with ground-breaking engineering achievements are nothing unusual in London: infrastructure projects such as Crossrail, Thames Tideway and HS2 have set milestones in...
For more than 40 years the STUVA has carried out a survey of tunnelling in Germany. Annually collected from clients, construction companies and designers are regularly published in consolidated form....
In 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 11 km of the Klagenfurt...
Herrenknecht AG received the bauma Innovation Award 2022 in the category “Machine Technology” for the new development of continuous tunnelling. The award was given for the next innovation boost in 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...
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...
