Animateur: Lars Babendererde

Babendererde Ingenieure GmbH
Markt 2
DE-23611 Bad Schwartau
Germany

Phone: +49 451 300 939 11
Fax: +49 451 300 939 29

E-Mail: lb(at)bab-ing.com

Vice-Animateur: Felix AMBERG

Amberg Engineering Ltd
Rheinstrasse 4
CH-7320 Sargans
Switzerland

Tel: +41 81 725 31 31

E-mail: famberg(at)amberg.ch

Standards-Manuals of mechanized tunnelling 2007

ITA WG-14 published “Recommendations and Guidelines for Tunnel Boring Machine” in 2000, which consists of four individual reports covering the wide variety of mechanized tunnelling from soft ground machines to hard rock machines. We think that it provides the common ground of understanding about mechanized tunnelling in the international society.
Since then, we discussed the universal recommendation of mechanized tunnelling and come up to the conclusion that it is impractical to make the universal one, since social conditions are quite different by the countries. For instance, degree of infrastructure development varies and tolerable limits of environmental disturbance both during construction and after completion are quite different. Not only technical conditions but also these social conditions shall be well considered for the machine selection, since they have big impacts to total project costs.
Instead of the universal recommendation, we decided to make the report to introduce standards and manuals of mechanized tunnelling in member nations. We hope that this report is used as reference guides for prospective owners of tunnel projects. ( download the publication)