Date: |
20 Jan 2026, 5.30PM – 7.30PM |
duration: |
2 hrs |
Venue: |
The Birdcage Tavern |
Address: |
133 Franklin Rd Auckland |
Cost: |
Free event |
Join us for a seminar and presentations, followed by refreshments.
The global underground construction industry is facing tremendous opportunities. Sustainable underground structures are becoming essential foundations for socio-economic transformation, ensuring a secure future for urban living and the reliable supply of energy, water, raw materials, and mobility.
Within this context, mechanized tunnelling technology stands out as one of the key technologies of the 21st century. It has the potential to revolutionize numerous applications in underground infrastructure, the vital arteries of modern environments. Mechanized tunnelling is a future-proof solution that accelerates excavation processes, enhances safety, and contributes to the sustainable quality of infrastructure and urban life, particularly in major metropolitan areas.
Large and super-large tunnel diameters are no longer a mere vision; they have been a reality since the 1990s, when the first supersize TBM (Ø14.2 m) excavated the Fourth Elbe Road Tunnel in Hamburg. The trend toward ever larger diameters in mechanized tunnelling continues to grow.
The presentation will also highlight the Huanggang Road Tunnel project in Jinan, a road tunnel crossing beneath the Yellow River. This tunnel was excavated using a supersize TBM with a maximum excavation diameter of 17.5 m, making it the largest TBM ever deployed in mainland China.
Presenter: Dr. Karin Bäppler, Head of Business Development and Presales, Traffic Tunnelling Group, Herrenknecht AG.
A presentation from Herrenknecht on the current state of the art in large diameter mechanized tunnelling using case studies from around the world.
Join us for a seminar and presentations, followed by refreshments.
The global underground construction industry is facing tremendous opportunities. Sustainable underground structures are becoming essential foundations for socio-economic transformation, ensuring a secure future for urban living and the reliable supply of energy, water, raw materials, and mobility.
Within this context, mechanized tunnelling technology stands out as one of the key technologies of the 21st century. It has the potential to revolutionize numerous applications in underground infrastructure, the vital arteries of modern environments. Mechanized tunnelling is a future-proof solution that accelerates excavation processes, enhances safety, and contributes to the sustainable quality of infrastructure and urban life, particularly in major metropolitan areas.
Large and super-large tunnel diameters are no longer a mere vision; they have been a reality since the 1990s, when the first supersize TBM (Ø14.2 m) excavated the Fourth Elbe Road Tunnel in Hamburg. The trend toward ever larger diameters in mechanized tunnelling continues to grow.
The presentation will also highlight the Huanggang Road Tunnel project in Jinan, a road tunnel crossing beneath the Yellow River. This tunnel was excavated using a supersize TBM with a maximum excavation diameter of 17.5 m, making it the largest TBM ever deployed in mainland China.
Presenter: Dr. Karin Bäppler, Head of Business Development and Presales, Traffic Tunnelling Group, Herrenknecht AG.
