Conventional Tunnelling
The construction of tunnels using conventional construction methods has always been a challenge to every engineer. Here, the engineer’s most important task is the evaluation of the geology and the selection of the right means of securing the excavation face until final completion of the inner lining. Wayss & Freytag already rose to this challenge in 1905 when building a railway tunnel using the conventional tunnelling method in Wasserburg/Inn in gompholite (Nagelfluh) and gravel.
The range of conventional tunnelling reaches from soft rock tunnelling (e. g. a metro tunnel in Munich gravel) and tunnelling in compressed air (e. g. Ostbahnhof metro station in Munich in Tertiary formations below groundwater) to classic drill and blast drives (e. g. Rennsteig Tunnel on the A 71 motorway, which, with a length of 8 km, is the longest motorway tunnel in Germany).
Related Projects
Due to an advantageous layout of tunnel portal and tunnel excavator is was possible to do without shunting bays and laborious shunting during the construction of the single-track railway tunnel.
The long-expected bypass in the Swabian town of Darmsheim will ensure an improved quality of life, since HGV traffic with approx. 23,000 vehicles will not pass through the town in future.
Below the protected monument, the „Kaufhof“ building at Kö in the heart of Dusseldorf, a tunnel with a connecting platform to the existing railway station „Heinrich-Heine-Allee” is built, which is exactly situated in the middle of the new “Wehrhahn” line.
The centrepiece of the 125 km long, double-track high-speed line between Graz and Klagenfurt is simultaneously the key project for the Baltic-Adriatic-Corridor. The Koralm Tunnel improves the traffic link between Graz and Klagenfurt.