More than 1500 tunnellers from 52 countries met in Bergen, Norway, from June 9 to 14, 2017. The occasion was the 43rd Annual Meeting of the ITA (International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association) in conjunction with the 2017 World Tunnel Congress (WTC). The Tunnel Congress organised by the NFF (Norwegian Tunnelling Society) in collaboration with the ITA bore the slogan “Surface Challenges – Underground Solutions”. 52 of the 74 ITA member nations were present in Bergen.
The start of excavation for the Koralm Railway’s Untersammelsdorf Tunnel in Carinthia, Austria, took place on July 7, 2017. According to Klaus Berger, ÖBB’s project manager, the last of six tunnels in...
The 9.5 km long Filder Tunnel connects Stuttgart Central Station, lying in a valley basin, with the Filder plateau located some 155 m higher. The four sections of its two tunnel tubes are being driven...
The 27.3 km long new Semmering Base Tunnel is the key structure of the new Austrian Südbahn line. On 30 June 2017, tunnelling works started on the third and last tunnel section, Grautschenhof.
At the north portal of the Ceneri Base Tunnel, installation of railway equipment in the east bore started in summer 2017. The 15.4 km long base tunnel between Camorino and Vezia will be equipped in the next few years with railway installations such as track, overhead, traction power and electricity supply, telecommunications and safety systems and control systems.
Los Angeles suffocates in traffic during rush hour. For this reason the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) is pushing ahead at full speed with the expansion of local transport...
An inrush of mud in the running ground causing excavation to come to a standstill for 15 months: this incident was documented during the construction of the existing metre gauge railway tunnel 117...
Jaipur, India’s tenth most populous city, is a cultural melting pot of 6.6 million people. The city’s heart is encircled by a wall six meters high and three meters thick, with seven gated openings....
The “Transjurane” is one of the most challenging road projects in Switzerland. With a length of 84 km, the new national autobahn A16 crosses the Jura mountains, running through numerous smaller and...
“Half of our job is done now and the end of the transport is foreseeable“, stated Wolf-Dieter Tigges, manager of the central construction logistics (ZBL) on the DB project Stuttgart–Ulm. His...
