THE BEST TUNNEL BUILDING EXPERTS ARRIVED TO BUDAPEST

About one thousand experts arrived on the weekend to Budapest from 53 countries to the Congress Centre in order to get in known with the Hungarian civil engineering projects and to share the professional experiences among themselves in this year’s Tunnel Building World Congress. The four days Conference has given the possibility to present simultaneously the applied technologies and the methods that facilitate the safety of the tunnels to be built at one section under the Danube and the built-in surface of metro 4.
Hungary was awarded by the World Organization of the professional tunnel building, the International Tunneling and Underground Space Association with the organization law to hold this year the Tunnel Building World Congress. According to Kocsonya Pál information president of the Hungarian Tunnel Building Association and that of the organizational committee of the Congress, the world’s most eminent experts from 53 countries have arrived in Budapest to share their experiences among themselves, and to get in known with the Hungarian tunneling projects – amongst other things the grandiose tunnel system of Bátaapáti, the underground sections of M6 Motorway simultaneously with the tunnels of metro 4. In the life of a two million metropolis, the transport especially, that of the rail mounted transportation system development is inevitable. Due to the high density of building the demand for mitigating the surface load - more present as a trend –has diverted the attention worldwide toward the tunnel building over the last few years.

The organizers couldn’t have picked a better day from that of now thus the building of the metro 4 has arrived at half way, the building of the tunnel got finished on the side of the city of Buda, and the south drill was launched under the Danube a few days ago. This section presents no bigger threat than hitherto thus the track is heading under built surfaces and old buildings that is why the metro construction works had to be managed very careful. Consequently, half of the metro tunnels were completed without any major events thus Klados Gusztáv, the DBR Project manager who was also present at the event made no comments regarding any breaks, demolition or moving establishments.

Budapest, 25th May2009
DBR Metro Project Directorate