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...
In 2020 the International Fire Academy (ifa) published the German-language edition of the textbook “Firefighting Operations in Railway Tunnels“. It is the second volume in the series “Interventions in...
At the Auberg Tunnel in Bavaria, Germany, the connection reinforcement between the tunnel invert and the vault constructed later above it was skipped (Fig. 1). The arrangement of an unreinforced...
The world´s largest known resource of polyhalite minerals is located in northern England in the county of North Yorkshire, close to Whitby. To unearth the mineral, which is used in the production of...
In mid-March 2021, the Swiss Federal Roads Office (FEDRO) has awarded the 86.6 million Swiss francs (78.5 million euros) contract to build a 4 km access shaft for the second Gotthard tube (Lot 243) to...
Generation change at the management level of the Stuttgart-Ulm rail project: Michael Pradel (47) will join the executive board of DB Projekt Stuttgart–Ulm GmbH (PSU) on 1 May 2021, where he will take...
