Käthchen, the tunnel boring machine (TBM), which the DB Projekt Stuttgart–Ulm GmbH is using to drive the Boßler Tunnel on the new Wendlingen–Ulm rail route, embarked on its second shield passage on...
The 1950s vintage Alaskan Way Viaduct has long been considered one of the most important thoroughfares along Seattle‘s waterfront in Washington, USA. As a replacement for the elevated viaduct that is...
The heavily used main A13 road runs through Roveredo, a small town in the Misox Valley in Switzerland. To bypass the town, the Swiss Road Traffic Authority (ASTRA) decided to build the 2.5 km long...
What exactly do we mean when we talk about Building Information Modeling – and what are we going to do with it? The subject of BIM has ultimately reached the tunnelling industry in the German-speaking...
2017 marks the 40th jubilee of the setting up of the Herrenknecht Concern, but for its founder and board chairman there was a further reason to celebrate: on June 24, 2017, Dr.-Ing. E.h. Martin...
The ASFINAG has awarded a major contract to two Austrian construction companies: Swietelsky-Bau in Graz and SSB-Bau based in Carinthia will work as a joint venture to carry out the general...
Structural works in the new 909 m long Pforzheimer Tunnel on the railway line from Karlsruhe to Mühlacker have been completed. The original Pforzheimer Tunnel, built between 1858 and 1860, was no...
The initiative “Germany – Land of Ideas” and the Federal Ministry for Transport and Digital Infrastructure acknowledged the “InREAKT – Integrated Help Reaction Chains to enhance Safety in Public...
For many years, the STUVAtec GmbH has been certified by the TÜV Nord as a producer of fire protection plans for the Deutsche Bahn AG and has developed fire protection plans for numerous major projects...
In April 2017, Dr. Rolf Bielecki died at the age of 85. German engineering has thus lost one of its most incisive and internationally regarded personalities of recent decades. Bielecki became widely...
