Saint Petersburg is the most northern megacity in the world and its metro system is one of the deepest in the world. The Station "Obwodny Canal" is located on Line 5 at a depth of…
Read moreThree minutes for the metro ride between "Überseequartier" and "Jungfernstieg" – and two more minutes to get to Hamburg Main Station. Starting in late 2013, the new Metro Line U4…
Read moreRapidly growing metropolises and overstrained traffic and transport systems are the side-effects of the economic groth and of the urbanization in China. Only an infrastructure that…
Read moreThe first successful tunnel drives on the Indian subcontinent by Herrenknecht EPB Shields startet 2002. The three machines bored a total of 7 kilometers of tunnel for this first…
Read moreHigh-quality raw water is becoming scarce in a city with a surface of 6,340 square kilometers and more than 20 million inhabitants. A network of water lines is plannend to…
Read moreMany kilometers of tunnels have to be built in Moscow for the metropolis' supply with electricity. Additional demand is generated by the fact that long streches of the network is…
Read moreA new 48-inch steel casing had to be installed underneath the Rhine River with a low overburden of three meters. The pipe was planned to serve as conduit for a water pipeline (Ø…
Read moreA spectacular project could be completed in 1997: A tunnel with a diameter of 9.4 meters for the Metro Line 2 in Cairo, with a total length of 22 kilometers and 20 metro stations…
Read moreThe community of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat between Nice and Monaco extended the 50-year-old sewage system. The entry point of the HDD operation (Sea Outfall) was located at the "Pointe…
Read moreThe north western metro in Prague is to be extended to Ruzyne Airport. The first, approximately six-kilometer-long Dejvicka-Motol section, with four new stations (Cerveny Vrch,…
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