Dr. Karl Morgen. 1st vice-chairman of the STUVA board received the HTG lifetime achievement award of the Werner Möbius Foundation at the HTG Congress 2019 in Lübeck, Germany. He was honoured for his...
Implenia has been commissioned by Deutsche Bahn to build the 8-km Albvorland Tunnel, a key section of the new railway line between Stuttgart and Ulm. The breakthrough of October 29 in the southern...
The Deutsche Bahn has reached another important milestone on the Stuttgart 21 project: in the middle of November 2019, after about two years of excavating the Untertürkheim Tunnel, the first of two...
The stock of existing tunnels in Germany is obsolete and legislators have revised the guidelines, in some cases several times. If the obsolescence of a tunnel now demands repair or a structural...
Projects that go down in history. German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel reiterated this during her visit at the Herrenknecht AG on October 7, 2019. On a tour of the plant premises, company founder and...
The following companies joined the STUVA in 2019:DigitalTwin Technology GmbH, Cologne (Germany)Gall Zeidler Consultants, LLC, Ashburn (USA)Geoconsult Deutschland GmbH, Berlin (Germany)
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...
