Tunnel or not? Tunnel construction divides the Swiss village
The community in the wine growing Swiss village of Twann is divided by the plans for constructing a tunnel. The village lies by the beautiful lake of Biel. But it separated...Reply on topic: Slovenia Karavanke Tunnel: DARS shortlists 3 bidders
My bet is consortium of CGP Kolector gets it. Cangiz might be the lowest bidder but Slovenia cannot digest giving the contract to a non-Slovenian builder unless it is Austrian or Swiss,Reply on topic: Ceneri Base Tunnel construction nearing completion
Great pictures from the Ceneri Base Tunnel: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8026143/The-Swiss-Alpine-railway-project-nears-completion.htmlReply on topic: Switzerland builds a gigantic water battery with 17 km tunnels to store electricity
https://www.alpiq.com/alpiq-group/media-relations/media-releases/media-release-detail/commissioning-of-nant-de-drance-an-essential-cog-in-the-wheel-for-swiss-and-european-security-of-supplyReply on topic: Tunneling Memorobilia: Swiss postal stamp for the Gotthard Tunnel
Nice. People who travel everyday in subways, train tunnels, highway tunnels take things so granted. They do not really thinks much about how much effort and sacrifice tunnellers put to build these things. Nice to see some appreciation in whatever form. Thanks Swiss postal services, Thanks.Decision Support System for an Intelligent Operator of Utility Tunnel Boring Machines
I think it is a pretty interesting paper. Most of the authors are from the Swiss university of ETH Zurich. One from MIT. I think this is the Cornell University website. Not sure. There is a link to the PDF version of the full paper. https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.02463Reply on topic: Ceneri Base Tunnel construction nearing completion
I read Ceneri is open: Switzerland opened its Ceneri tunnel on Friday -- completing a mammoth project cutting a new route through the Alps which should transform rail links between northern and southern Europe. https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/swiss-alps-tunnel-set-transform-123000086.html
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