The 1.35 km long Arlinger Tunnel is part of the first construction phase of the “Westtangente Pforzheim”, the connecting axis of the German federal roads 294 and 463 from the Black Forest to the...
Stockholm’s blue subway line is being extended from the centrally located Kungsträdgården to Nacka in the southeast of the Swedish capital as well as to Hammarby Sjöstad in the south. Implenia has...
Series 7 of ITA Tunnelling and Underground Space Awards is officially launched. Since 2015, the international competition seeks and rewards remarkable achievements within tunnelling industry....
A new transformer station for the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel has been put out for tender. Electric trains through the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel between Denmark and Germany will run on green energy supplied directly...
Extreme working conditions at an altitude of more than 3000 m above sea level, water ingress of more than 250 litre/sec, high rock pressures with extreme deformations and rapid changes in rock...
The miners in the Brenner Base Tunnel are pushing ahead rapidly with the major rail project. On March 31, 2021, they achieved a new record while excavating the main tubes in South Tyrol: 860 m of tunnel bored and lined in one month.
Following the success of the 1st PIARC International Conference on Tunnels held in Lyon, France, in October 2018, the World Road Association PIARC and the Spanish National Committee (ATC) will jointly...
On World Water Day 2021, which takes place every year on 22 March, the Brenner Base Tunnel Society (BBT SE) drew attention to a positive effect of the construction works. The insights collected...
Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions introduces the new Sandvik DD212, a compact and intelligent single-boom electro-hydraulic drill for tunneling and mining development in narrow vein drifts. This new...
