The first tunnel boring machine (TBM) “Sibylle” completed its work at the Albvorland Tunnel between Kirchheim unter Teck and Wendlingen am Neckar in early August 2019. In just over a year and a half,...
On May 23, 2019, the 5th Rock Mechanics and Tunnelling Day was held at the WBI-Center in Weinheim an der Bergstraße. The informative brief conference with high-grade lectures was staged jointly by the...
The Red Line is the first line of the Tel Aviv urban railway. 2 x 2.7 km tunnels were driven using two EPB tunnel boring machines (EPBs) from Herrenknecht for the eastern section of the Red Line. It...
Operators are deciding ever more frequently to equip their tunnels with a water-mist fire-fighting system (water-mist FFS). Here, water-mist FFS should not be regarded as “add-ons”, but should,...
Tunnel structures are not only among the most demanding construction projects on engineering criteria, their investment costs also put them amongst the most expensive. Another aspect to be added is...
On May 30, 2019 Richard James Robbins, President and CEO of The Robbins Company from 1958 to 1993, passed away surrounded by family in Seattle, Washington, USA. Richard (Dick) Robbins was widely...
The DB Projekt Stuttgart–Ulm GmbH celebrated the start of the excavation for the part of the Rosenstein S-Bahn Tunnel to be driven from the bank of the Neckar on July 16, 2019. The future suburban...
Around 2000 participants from 73 countries gathered in Naples, Italy from May 3 to 9, 2019. The occasion was the 45th General Assembly of the ITA (International Tunnelling and Underground Space...
More than 1000 ambulance and fire service personnel, 300 actors and more than 200 referees, observers and guests: the exercise in the Fleckberg rail tunnel in Thuringia, which took place on 22 June...
