The Imberg Tunnel is located on the Swabian Alb plateau, which is crossed by the new Wendlingen–Ulm rail link. It is 499 m long, which means it is numbered among the shortest for the Stuttgart–Ulm rail project. The ICE will only need roughly 7 seconds to pass through the tunnel. Topographical marginal conditions define the length of the 220 m central construction section, which is driven by conventional means. Cut-and-cover sections extend the tunnel at both sides. On the south side this is defined by the planned or rebuilt road network; at the north side a highly frequented game pass that crosses the track has to be catered for.
Motivation
The need to modernise and expand the existing line networks of the telecommunications and energy supply companies is growing in keeping with the advance in infrastructural networking of...
The 2017 STUVA Conference, the International Forum for Tunnels and Infrastructure, will be held from December 6 to 8, 2017 at the Messe Stuttgart. The event is one of the most important gatherings for...
Findings designed to improve the safety of pedestrians and cyclists when using railway crossings are to emerge from a research project (FE-No. 82.0613/2014). The project was commissioned by the...
A symposium took place in the Southeast Asian metropolis of Singapore on 10 November 2016, organised by the Tunnelling and Underground Construction Society Singapore (TUCSS) who had invited eight...
The first Forum on Tunnelling (Forum Tunnelbau) took place on 18 November 2016 at the RWTH Aachen University. The occasion for the event was the opening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel – a mammoth...
On December 9, 2016, the Swiss Federal Council appointed Renzo Simoni, CEO of the AlpTransit Gotthard AG (ATG), to represent the state in the governing board of the partially privatised Swisscom tele-...
Dr.-Ing. E.h. Martin Herrenknecht accepted the Werner von Siemens Ring – one of the most prestigious technical engineering awards – on December 13, 2016 in the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The Werner von Siemens Ring Foundation highlighted Martin Herrenknecht’s innovative strength in the development of tunnel boring machines and honored his technical pioneering spirit in the realization of groundbreaking engineering projects in mechanized tunnelling.
The ITA Awards from the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association were presented in Singapore on November 11, 2016 for the second time following up 2015 (in the Hagerbach Test...
