Around 1500 tunnellers from 68 countries met from 21 to 25 April, 2018 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The occasion was the 44th Annual Meeting of the ITA (International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association) in conjunction with the World Tunnel Congress (WTC) 2018.
In a ground breaking new book “Underground Spaces Unveiled: Planning and Creating the Cities of the Future” urban planner Antonia Cornaro (Amberg Engineering, Switzerland) and civil engineer Han...
On June 7, 2018, the 4th Conference on Rock Mechanics and Tunnelling took place at the WBI Center in Weinheim/Bergstr. The day-long event was staged jointly by the WBI GmbH in conjunction with the DB Projekt Stuttgart–Ulm GmbH, the DB Netze and the civil engineering section of the Württemberg Engineering Association. There was a keen response with around 300 experts taking part in the event thus contributing to its success. For the first time, all lectures were also available in English with simultaneous translation.
120 km of rail tunnels are currently under construction on the Stuttgart–Ulm rail project. Many of these tunnels are being mined according to the New Austrian Tunnelling Method (NATM). But also...
We are pleased to welcome the following companies as new members of STUVA in the first half of 2018:AQUASOIL Ingenieure & Geologen GmbH, Westheim (Germany)Dürr Group GmbH, Weinstadt (Germany)Emch +...
Under the aegis and participation of Dr.-Ing. Friedrich Krüger of the STUVA Inc. the Technical Academy Esslingen is staging a seminar on “Protection against Noise and Vibration in Rail Traffic” on...
Mechanical low-frequency vibrations caused by construction activities, blasting an traffic on rails and roads no only represent a threat to the stability of buildings. Furthermore, such vibrations...
The STUVA regularly promotes tunnel forums at the InnoTrans Convention involving high-grade podium discussions and rounds of experts. Here at international level the emphasis is on what will keep us mobile in future. The article presents the programme of this year’s Tunnel Forum.
Since the Scheibengipfel Tunnel with a length of 1.9 km was opened for traffic on October 27, 2017, the city centre of Reutlingen (Germany) has had to cope with as many as 20 000 fewer vehicles. This...
