Search Results: 'Deutsche Bahn'

Ground conditioning over the decades
27 November, 2023
Lars Langmaack, Technical Director (TBM) of MC-Bauchemie Müller GmbH’s tunnelling business unit, gives a personal review of EPB tunnelling development, including the development of soil conditioning additives in recent decades, and ways ahead

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

Digital drive
29 October, 2021
Digital technology promises multiple benefits and is making huge inroads in many sectors but its take-up in tunnelling and other infrastructure projects is still at relatively early stages. Report by Patrick Reynolds

Trans Euro Express
17 July, 2020
The Magistrale is a 1,500km high-speed rail project that will link France, Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary. Julian Champkin reports on the tunnelling through Germany’s Swabian Alps.

Deutsche dip
19 June, 2018
Alex Conacher speaks to Stuva’s managing director Roland Leucker about the current challenges facing metro work in Europe’s largest economy

ULM Approach Tunnel
29 March, 2017
Excavation of Germany’s Albabstieg tunnel was completed in December representinga major milestone in the creation of a new high speed rail line to Stuttgart

Going Live
30 January, 2017
Tunnellers must advance through a ring of frozen ground protecting a live railway in order to build the Rastatt Tunnel and create vital new capacity along this crucial European transport corridor

Filder tunnel
30 October, 2015
Progress is good so far on the Filder, biggest of the Stuttgart 21 rail project tunnels in southern Germany.

Where the work is
18 October, 2011
As T&TI goes to press the general and business media are awash with stories of economic gloom and dire predictions, and yet the tunnelling industry in Western Europe seems relatively buoyant. Can this comparatively happy state continue? Maurice Jones checks on the major current and planned projects and the prospects for some big players headquartered in Western Europe

Channel Tunnel risk profile for policy
13 April, 2011
This article is based on a the presentation by Richard Clifton to the 2nd Annual Fire Protection and Safety in Tunnels Conference held in Milan, Italy, in October 2010. The presentation was entitled ‘Case Study: An exploration of Channel Tunnel design and operation, factoring in risk profile, to assess key safety policies’. Richard Clifton is chairman and head of the UK delegation to the Channel Tunnel Safety Authority within the Office of Rail Regulation, UK

Saving the tunnel customer
19 October, 2010
Although passing through tunnels is statistically one of the safest means of transport, major incidents have given the impression of wider potential danger. The aftermath of the Mont Blanc Tunnel fire and tunnel safety surveys have highlighted real areas of concern. Much of the subsequent attention has been on protecting tunnel structure by so-called ‘passive’ means, but humanitarian concerns must be focused on the speed of getting travellers away from the hazardous areas as soon as possible, for the dangers to life work much more quickly than dangers to structure. Maurice Jones reviews some best practice and developments to improve the chances of survival

Compressed air for top down
01 February, 2004
Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Schwarz, head of Heavy Civil Engineering for Walter-Bau AG, merged with DYWIDAG, and Dr.-Ing. Florian Hehenberger, of Hehenberger Consulting & Management, discuss the benefits of utilising compressed air for top down construction of tunnels in the presence of ground water

Blasting above the Brandleite
01 July, 2002
When completed in spring 2003 the Rennsteig tunnel, at 7.9km, will be the longest highway tunnel in Germany. The twin tube tunnel is the most expensive element of the new A71/A73 highway, connecting Erfurt with Schweinfurt and included crossing the 112 year old Brandleite railway tunnel with only 6m of cover. G. Denzer of DEGES and R. Maidl, Ingenieurbüro Prof. Dr.-Ing. B. Maidl - Dipl.-Ing. R. Maidl, describe the project

German tunnelling - analysis and outlook
01 July, 2002
For nearly 25 years, STUVA, the German research organisation, has compiled statistics on tunnelling activities in Germany(1). The research programme was triggered by a suggestion from the International Tunnelling Association (ITA). Prof. Dr-Ing. Alfred Haack examines the latest statistics and reviews the outlook for the German tunnelling industry

Better safe than sorry
11 January, 2002
Bavarian passengers wanting a high speed connection north must wait a little longer than expected for the new InterCity Express line from Munich to Nuremberg reports Adrian Greeman.

Tunnels for HS railways in Germany
15 October, 2000
Rupert Sternath, project director for tunnel construction with Deutsche Bahn (German national railways – DBProjekt), describes the context in which a large expansion of the high-performance network is under way. He also describes tunnelling work on one of the big projects, the Cologne-Rhine/Main high-speed link

North-south in Berlin
25 January, 2000
Changes to design and the near catastrophic flooding of a main tunnel caisson have resulted in the construction of central Berlin's missing transport route - the north-south rail link - slip from its original planned completion of 2002 to latest estimates of 2005. However, with the start of the final set of TBM tunnel drives, Lot 3 construction supervisor Lahmeyer International believes the project is now on the home stretch.