For 40 years the STUVA has carried out a survey of tunnelling in Germany. Annually collected from clients, construction companies and designers are regularly published in consolidated form. An assignment prompted by a corresponding request from the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association [1].
A research project on the expected costs and their development from the planning phase through tendering to invoicing was carried out in order to establish a reliable basis for the resource planning...
The internationally active company Bentley Systems develops construction software, which is also used on infrastructure projects like tunnels. In an interview with “tunnel”, Lutz Bettels, Vice...
Excavating the Trimberg Tunnel for the new motorway A44 Kassel – Herleshausen in Germany, the tunnellers encountered difficult geology and had to install a temporary top heading invert of shotcrete....
As an extension to the existing pump series P 215 to P 455, the German manufacturer Söndgerath Pumpen GmbH now presents two submersible pumps of the new P Series – the P 475 and the P 675. As from...
In the black of night, a train carrying eighty passengers is immobilised in one of the underground railway tunnels beneath the French city of Lyon – smoke begins to spread. The task now is to get the...
Norway’s mountainous topography of rivers, streams, and waterfalls is a haven for hydropower, and new initiatives are reinventing the renewable energy on a small scale. Such projects could have...
In recent years, the traditional festive evening on the first day of the STUVA Conference has developed into one of the highlights of the event. With 1500 seats, the booked festival hall was...
Within the framework of the STUVA Conference 2019, young engineers competed against each other on the big stage of the Young Forum with lectures on topics from their still young careers. All...
This year's STUVA Conference in Frankfurt am Main from 26 to 28 November impressively demonstrated why it is regarded as the most important fair of its kind worldwide. For the third time in a row, the...
