The Indian mass-transit operator Metro Link Express for Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad (MEGA) has commissioned Siemens to electrify a 39.2 km metro line (Ahmedabad Metro Rail Project Phase 1) in the Indian...
The 419 m long Krohnstiegtunnel is a road tunnel running under the runway of the Hamburg Airport. It offers passage for vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists. Since the tunnel was equipped with advanced...
Implenia, in partnership with Norwegian infrastructure construction company Risa AS, has won a contract from energy company Agder Energi. The consortium will build a dam and a new transfer tunnel for...
During the construction of the Tunnel de Champel in Geneva, MasterEase from Master Builders Solutions proved to be a well suited superplasticizer for sprayed concrete. MasterEase reduces the viscosity...
From April 20–26, 2018, the World Tunnel Congress will take place at the International Convention and Exhibition Center in Dubai, UAE. The organizers, the national Society of Engineers – UAE and its...
With a schedule of just less than two years of construction time, the ASFINAG started on the upgrading of the Plabutsch Tunnel on the A 9 Pyhrn Autobahn in Austria in December 2017. The tunnel is...
An important milestone for the 4 m corridor: On 29 November 2017, the tunnel boring machine broke through the last few metres of the Bözberg in Effingen. Due to the presence of unstable rock at the...
The 12th conference on shotcrete with parallel exhibition will take place at the Alpbach Congress Centrum in Tyrol, Austria, on January 11–12, 2018. Conference chair is Prof. Wolfgang Kusterle, topics of the conference will be: ...
The Tunnelling Pocketbook is a practice-related guide for clients, designers and contractors. The current 2018 edition deals with numerous contributions referring to projects, divided up into various...
