Search Results: 'Herrenknecht'

Johann Herdina interview
21 November, 2022
With a tunnelling career spanning decades in the Alps, Johann Herdina has significant experience leading on the planning and delivery of major underground projects. He talks to Julian Champkin

Out and in at sea
31 October, 2022
Major lifts for tunnel projects have taken place at sea recently for an outfall off Kuwait and at Hinkley Point C power station, in UK

Spotlight on Innotrans 2022
26 September, 2022
Berlin is hosting InnoTrans 2022, which will feature many aspects of rail infrastructure including tunnels

Upward climbs for TBMS
26 September, 2022
Inclined shafts for hydropower tunnels are an interesting task for excavation by TBM, which have been successfully rising to varied challenges

Low Carbon, High Ambition in Paris
03 August, 2022
Grand Paris Express is striding forward for tunnelling into a low carbon future using concrete tunnel segments on Lot 16.1, as described by Benoit de Rivaz of Bekaert

Low carbon for Silvertown
03 August, 2022
Silvertown road tunnel in London will use mostly fibre-reinforced concrete with GGBS for segmental lining, reports Patrick Reynolds

Going green at high-speed
03 August, 2022
Concrete use on UK’s HS2 rail project is speeding advances in construction sustainability. Report by Patrick Reynolds

Keeping hold of the natural balance
24 June, 2022
Careful groundwater management was vital to build Copenhagen’s metro and, elsewhere, dewatering is taking on more tunnelling challenges. Report by Patrick Reynolds

Necessity fosters innovation
17 March, 2022
Whether for large- or small-diameter tunnels, utility investment calls for more underground methods, ushering in several innovative techniques in the process. Patrick Reynolds reports

Designed for change
17 March, 2022
Herrenknecht team K Bäppler, F Battistoni, W Burger, M Flora and M Schwärzel say that one of the more significant innovations in recent mechanised tunnelling is the Variable Density TBM which can lead to safer and more sustainable tunneling

Driving TBM progress
28 January, 2022
Mechanised tunnelling systems are developing both in complexity and in the number of projects on which they are deployed. Patrick Reynolds looks at a few