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...
On July 1, 2022, 57-year-old civil engineer Dr.-Ing. Karsten Gruber was appointed Managing Director of Obermeyer Infrastruktur GmbH & Co. KG. He left Sweco GmbH, where he was a member of the...
With Dipl.-Ing (FH) Martin-Devid Herrenknecht (35), a member of the family is taking over a strategic Board of Management portfolio in the family business led by founder and CEO Dr.-Ing. E.h. Martin...
For two years, the Swiss Tunnel Congress (STC) could not be held with personal attendance due to the pandemic. Accordingly, the organisers of the Swiss Tunnelling Society (STS) had reason to be...
At the end of June 2022, WBI GmbH was once again able to invite participants to the Rock Mechanics and Tunnelling Day at its company headquarters in Weinheim, Baden-Württemberg – a forum for exchange...
The World Tunnel Congress 2022 will be held in the Danish capital Copenhagen from 2 to 8 September 2022 – more than three years after the last WTC, which ended in Naples, Italy, on 7 May. The...
On 28 June 2021, the government and the majority of political parties in the Danish parliament agreed on the Infrastructure Plan 2035 – with a planned investment volume of more than 22 billion euros, the Danish Infrastructure Plan 2035 is the largest in the history of the Scandinavian country, which will host the World Tunnel Congress in Copenhagen in 2022.
The Tunnel Feuerbach project between Stuttgart‘s main railway station and the Feuerbach station, which was commissioned at a cost of around 187 million euros, has been completed. The breakthrough of the 3 km long tunnel in June 2020 was followed by the complex and innovatively designed extension of the tunnel inner shells and the widening structure near Feuerbach station...
Due to their organisational structure and contracts, conventional project delivery models reach their limits in complex large-scale construction projects. In this context, Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) is an alternative regarding a joint project realisation...
The Czech Tunnelling Association hosts the 15th international conference Underground Construction Prague 2023, which will be held in the capital of the Czech Republic from 29 to 31 May 2023.
