Dear friends, colleagues,
I have been away for longer than a year due to a serious illness. I am now better and hope to recover in time.
I would like to thank to all friends and colleagues who had sent me a message, an email, called me and who...
The contemporary art show is centred around the theme of the Metro Tunnel Project. It will run from April 1 thru May 7.
Making the Metro Tunnel: reflections by contemporary Australian artists captures the process of building this...
Norway's Bergen is gearing up to open the world’s longest purpose-built pedestrian and bicycle tunnel.
https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/03/07/car-free-future-europes-longest-cycle-tunnel-aims-to-cut-traffic-in-this-norwegian-city
A mammoth report from New York University’s Transit Costs Project makes a good case that the numbers are indeed astronomical, and there’s something we can do about...
Whereabouts of Herrenknecht Jet from public domain information.
Aircraft: Embraer 505 Phenom 300
Serial #: 50500419 Reg: D-CHMD
Photo taken in Oct 16, 2022 by T. Rosskopf at München Franz Josef...
After a project time extended to almost 15 years and more than doubled cost (from 1,4 Billion euros to 3,1 Billion euros) and some 17th century buildings sunk as a result of somewhat sloppy Tunnel Boring Machine operation, CNN looks at the bright...
Paper in English. It is useful in general for tunnel operations work. In English and full text open without paying.
Operational And Maintenance Features Of The Sv. Tri Kralja Tunnel
Zvonimir Deković
Boris Cviljak
Igor...
Two Spanish transport executives have been fired after a train fiasco that saw the design of 31 trains that were too big for the tunnels on the line where they would...
A 1:87 scale model of a Gripper TBM model is for sale at Railway Model Store. It is very cute, isn't is? I think it is. It costs £299.95 incl VAT. `Some assembly required`, basically gluing a few parts.
Obviously there is...
The Suez Canal tunnel construction scheme is the largest tunnel project in the history of Egypt and the Middle East.
https://see.news/heres-all-on-suez-canal-tunnel-construction-project
A friend of mine forwarded this to me.
Sandvik describes it as "Sandvik DT821-SC is a two boom electro-hydraulic jumbo for fast and accurate drilling in tunneling and cavern excavation. The hydraulic controlled drilling system with added...