The 2024 Olympic Games in Paris also drew the world‘s attention to Saint Denis and Le Bourget, where the Olympic Village and the Press Village were set up. Saint Denis and Le Bourget are both part of...
At the end of July 2024, the ceremonial start of tunnelling for the Forbach pumped storage power plant project took place. As part of the conversion of the Rudolf Fettweis plant in Forbach from a...
As of September 2, 2024, the Gotthard Base Tunnel is once again fully open to rail traffic. Almost 13 months after the derailment of a freight train on 10 August 2023, the world's longest railroad...
The grid expansion project SuedLink of the two transmission system operators TenneT and TransnetBW will transport electricity over 700 km from Brunsbüttel in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany, to...
Trafikverket, the Swedish transport infrastructure authority, has awarded Implenia a construction section of the Haga project within the new West Link connection in western Sweden. The complex...
Cargo trains with semi-trailers with a corner height of four metres are planned to reach Basel via France in future. The aim is to shift additional freight transport from road to rail. The Swiss...
The ITA – International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association, an international organisation of 80 member nations, is recruiting for a dynamic leader as its Executive Director. The position is...
On June 13, 2024, the 9th Rock Mechanics and Tunnelling Day took place at the WBI Center in Weinheim, Germany. This year, the very well-attended event focused on rock mechanics, tunnelling and...
After celebrating its 50th anniversary last year, the Swiss Tunnelling Society (STS) returned to its traditional format with the Swiss Tunnel Congress 2024: two days of colloquium and congress, as...
In April 2024, DB Projekt Stuttgart-Ulm GmbH submitted the planning approval documents for the construction of the Pfaffensteig Tunnel to the Federal Railway Authority. The groundwork has thus been...
