International engineering federation FIDIC (the International Federation of Consulting Engineers) and ITA-AITES (the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association) have teamed up to...
In April 2019, a 3.5 m diameter open-typ, Main Beam TBM and its crew broke through at the Galerie des Janots Tunnel in La Ciotat, France. The 2.8 km long tunnel, excavated in limestone known to have...
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...
For the redevelopment of the Maroggia Tunnel in Switzerland, the Multiripper 220 multifunctional machine fitted with a hydraulic hammer ensured that the amount of time needed to remove the existing...
On Thursday 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. He is survived by his wife...
In April 2019, a Robbins 3.5 m diameter Main Beam TBM broke through into open space, completing the 2.8 km long tunnel Galerie des Janots in France. It was not the first time the machine had...
The development company FinEst Bay Area Development in Helsinki intends to build a rail tunnel with two tubes under the Gulf of Finland between the Estonian capital of Tallinn and the capital of...
A tunnel inspection today still means a lot of manual work – long deployments, often at night, on closed tracks or roads. And after the elaborate inspection, the often very subjective data is time-consuming to process. Digitalization will make these processes easier in the future. In a research project, Amberg Technologies and Amberg Engineering, both companies of the Swiss Amberg Group, have developed a cloud-based platform, which uses artificial intelligence for automatic damage detection.
