Tunnel Weseraue Porta Westfalica, B61n   Tunnel Weseraue Porta Westfalica, B61n 1. General In Porta Westfalica, the federal highway B 61 runs through a landscape of Germany that is worth seeing and is unmistakable in its kind. Here the...  

Tunnelling underneath Frankfurt Kreuz hub   Tunnelling underneath Frankfurt Kreuz hub The route of the Deutsche Bahn AG new Cologne-Rhine/ Main line passes beneath the A 3 and A 5 motorways at the Frankfurter Kreuz hub. The Frankfurter Kreuz...  

U-Bahn Baulos 1S4, Undercutting the Wilhelm-Marx-Haus   U-Bahn Baulos 1S4, Undercutting the Wilhelm-Marx-Haus The Wilhelm-Marx-Haus was built between 1921 and 24 as Germany's first high-riser made of reinforced concrete brickwork. It is 56 m high and has...  

U-Bahn Berlin, Lot D 79- Undercutting the Karl-Bonhoeffer-Hospital   U-Bahn Berlin, Lot D 79- Undercutting the Karl-Bonhoeffer-Hospital The U-Bahn construction Lot D 79 embraces an underground section divided into two separate, single track tunnel tubes with the...  

U-Bahn München, U 2-Ost Baulos 1, Josephsburg   U-Bahn München, U 2-Ost Baulos 1, Josephsburg The altogether 3,700 m long tunnel tubes are being driven by a shield tunnelling machine (diameter 7.35 m). The geology comprises alternating beds of...