„Our machines operate in highly diverse geological and hydrogeological conditions“ says Matthias Schwärzel, who has led several tunnelling projects for Herrenknecht in his role as Division Manager, Project Management Traffic Tunnelling. “These conditions pose challenges for clients, planners and contractors that are never the same from one project to the next. Working closely with our […]
Just short of the finish line, there was one anxious moment for “Coline”, as the miners called their TBM: 2.4 kilometers into the highly successful operation on an extremely demanding section of Lyon’s subsurface, the TBM was just a few meters from breakthrough when the monitoring systems flashed up some unexpected values. In the control […]
On the sprawling site of the Nezhinsky mine in Lyuban, Belarus – about a two hour drive south of Minsk – Marcus Winterer climbs into a metal manrider. In the past two years it has taken him vertically underground on countless occasions. Winterer is one of the supervisors for two innovative Shaft Boring Roadheaders (SBR) […]