The construction of the 51 km long Abwasserkanal Emscher (AKE) sewer tunnel is the largest individual project to improve the River Emscher in the Ruhr, Germany and is technically and financially one of the greatest challenges that the Emschergenossenschaft as client and their construction partners have ever had to overcome. Among the individual construction sections of the major project, construction section (BA) 40 is exceptional, not only because of its construction with segment lining.
The International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA) has been collecting data on international tunnel and underground construction since 2011. A first global market analysis was compiled in 2014. For the second overview, presented at the WTC 2017 in Bergen, the ITA member nations (73 countries) have once again been involved in collecting and checking the data. In total, information from 89 countries and 2300 projects was included in the recent analysis. This second market analysis clearly shows that the tunnelling market has a considerable size, with a global annual output of 86 billion euros.
At the ITA Assembly 2016 in San Francisco, a new Executive Council and a new president were elected. At its first meeting in Napa, the ITA Executive Council decided to update the ITA strategy for the...
The DB Projekt Stuttgart–Ulm GmbH celebrated the breakthrough of the second (west) bore of the Bad Cannstatt Tunnel on 10 October 2017. This means that in about three and a half years, the two bores...
The 500 km long new/upgraded Nuremberg-Berlin rail route, also known as German Unity Transport Project No. 8 (VDE 8), was approved by the German Parliament in 1991 in the form of a high-speed line (up...
On 29 September 2017, the Swiss Federal Council presented the submission for the improvement stage of rail infrastructure for 2030/35. In neither of the variants with investment volumes of 7 or 11.5...
Construction work on the Albvorland Tunnel, which will be 8176 m long, officially began on 6 October 2017. Implenia has been commissioned by Deutsche Bahn to build the tunnel, a key section of the new...
Mainova AG, of Frankfurt on Main, is the largest energy utility in the state of Hesse and supplies more than a million people with power, gas, water and heat. On 10 August 2017, the new Mainova...
Even ten months in advance, an impressive repeat exhibitor rate is already apparent for the 12th InnoTrans. Current registration figures for the world‘s leading transport technology fair exceed the...
