Innovation

Technical progress through pioneering spirit

Contractors around the world using Herrenknecht tunnelling technology are setting new records in tunnel construction every year. Faster, bigger, deeper, harder, safer – virtually all new superlatives involve machines from Schwanau. To ensure our project partners can continue to boldly tackle real underground challenges in the future, but also become more efficient in their daily business, we at Herrenknecht are constantly working on the major and minor innovations in mechanized tunnelling.

Our experienced engineers master the entire range of innovation – from incremental detail aspects to completely new-designed machine types for areas of application with a promising future. In Germany or together with our customers on the jobsites of this world, we develop the mechanized tunnelling technology of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. And not just to increase performance, but also in terms of key social issues such as safety, environmental protection and resource conservation. So in future new tunnel infrastructures can be planned and built safely and sustainably exactly where they are needed.

A selection of the most exciting new and further developments of recent years can be found under the following links. 

Bentonite lubrication system for effectiveness in pipe jacking:
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Our further development of the accessible cutting wheel:
All Around Online Magazine – Issue 3

Original new tunnelling concept – the MH Box machine for crossing under traffic arteries: 
Read the article (PDF)

Tunnelling technology for wind power – OFD Offshore Foundation Drilling: 
https://www.deme-group.com/news/deme-offshore-and-herrenknecht-sign-agreement-fabrication-subsea-drill-xl-monopile

U-Park - the solution for parking bottlenecks in major cities:
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Innovative training with the Erector simulator:
Read the article (PDF)

Know what's going on - with DCRM disc cutter monitoring:
Read the article (PDF)

Innovation for potential savings – energy-efficient tunnelling technology:
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Downloads:

ISP Integrated Seismic Prediction

SSP Sonic Softground Probing

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Steffen Dubé President and General Manager Herrenknecht Tunnelling Systems USA Inc.
Gerhard Goisser Commercial Manager Herrenknecht Tunnelling Systems USA, Inc.

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Steffen Dubé President and General Manager Herrenknecht Tunnelling Systems USA Inc.
Gerhard Goisser Commercial Manager Herrenknecht Tunnelling Systems USA, Inc.