Search Results: 'Strabag'

Canada’s project of the year
12 December, 2013
As tunnels went to press the Tunnelling Association of Canada's annual awards were in full swing. The award for best Canadian tunnelling project for 2013 went to a project that had to endure some of the toughest ground conditions, consistently varying, and continually testing the skills and knowledge of the teams involved.

Albabstieg Tunnel contract awarded
08 August, 2013
Strabag subsidiary Ed Züblin has been awarded as lead JV member a EUR 250M (USD 334M) contract by Deutsche Bahn to build the 5.9km Albabstieg Tunnel along the new Wendlingen–Ulm rail line in Germany.

Strabag's CEO resigns
02 May, 2013
Dr Hans Peter Haselsteiner, the CEO of Strabag, has resigned from the company at a meeting with the supervisory board earlier this week. Haselsteiner's resignation is effective with the end of of the 2013 Annual General Meeting on 14 June this year.

Underground explosion injures workers
26 April, 2013
A methane explosion on Toronto¹s Southeast Collector (SeC) Sewer Project injured four men working on the A2 TBM drive on 10 April 2013.

The sweet spot
26 April, 2013
Canada is a great place for work with projects in nearly every major province and an influx of foreign companies who have taken notice. Tunnels North America spoke with several to see what they are seeking.

Back to Bauma
05 April, 2013
Bauma in Munich, UC in Prague, and thoughts from the largest contractor in Central and Eastern Europe as Tunnels looks to the region in this focus.

Pointing North
28 February, 2013
Alex Conacher speaks to Ari Laitinen, Sandvik area manager for Scandinavia for his impressions of the quirks of operating in Europe’s northern extremity

TBM LIFTS
19 February, 2013
Robbins technical writer Desiree Willis looks at the pivotal role of cranes in TBM assembly

Rohtang praying for rock
17 January, 2013
The Rohtang Pass tunnel in India’s northern Jammu & Kashmir region is an ambitious project to provide year-round access to a remote group of communities. The Strabag- Afcons JV has hit woeful ground conditions and braved the worst the Himalayas can throw at it as work on this infrastructure lifeline slowly progresses. Alex Conacher speaks to Peter Reichenspurner, Strabag’s technical area manager for Asia and Africa, tunnelling division

Niagara gears up for final chapter
09 January, 2013
The Niagara Tunnel Project is expected to be completed this year with the flooding of the tunnel due in mid to late March, Ontario Power Generation (OPG), Strabag and Robbins revealed earlier this month.

Which ever way you slice it
08 January, 2013
Increasingly since the 1980s, contracts in the U.S. and Canada are taking on projects with TBMs and precast segments already procured by the owners. Gerhard J. Urschitz, of Strabag and based in Niagara Falls, Ontario, looks at who benefits from client procurement of TBMs