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#112 Hagerbach – The Bat Cave of Tunnelling

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#112 Hagerbach: The Bat Cave of Tunnelling

6/17/21 by Reby Media

Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/124557747
Episode: https://media.blubrry.com/engineeringmatters/content.blubrry.com/engineeringmatters/TTP_HAGERBACH_mixdown_mp3_VERSION_1_ENG.mp3

Every good superhero universe has its origins story. Hagerbach’s begins with Rudolf Amberg, looking to innovate and find new efficiency savings for his iron mine. So began a 50-year journey from testing equipment and explosives, to fire and tunnel safety simulations, and ever more creative uses for underground space. Ultimately the mining industry in Switzerland failed, but Hagerbach survived, and is still an iconic test site for the mining and tunnelling industries. This year it will celebrate its history and look towards its future with the NXT 50 Festival. And some of the ideas on display will push the use of underground space to greater heights than ever before. Guests Antonia Cornaro, Business Development Manager, Amberg Engineering Felix Amberg, President, Amberg Group Michael Kompatscher, CEO, Hagerbach Test Gallery Resources For more information on the Hagerbach NXT 50 Festival, click here For a previous episode of The Tunnelling Podcast that covered underground farming in Hagerbach, click here and a video explaining the concept can be found here For information about Mission Earth First click here

For the International Tunnelling Association’s Committee for Underground Space, click here
And to learn more about Edge Computing Underground, click here Supporters The Amberg Group is a unique knowledge, engineering and technology provider of logistics and infrastructures for smart cities, hubs and networks through innovative combinations of above and underground space usage. Its products and services cover in a digitalized manner the entire life cycle of the infrastructures and all engineering and technology aspects. ACO is the leading supplier for drainage solutions in the building industry. Drainage Solutions for the tunnelling industry is one of the core competencies of ACO. The combination of unique materials with the ACO safety concept for tunnels offers the optimal solution for every project. The prefabricated systems are built to the individual design of every project and ensures an easy and fast installation.

So Long to the Hotel Pennsylvania

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So Long to the Hotel Pennsylvania

The Hotel Pennsylvania is going to come down, Steven Roth has told his Vornado shareholders. That’s not a shock. It’s an old-fashioned hotel with a great many small rooms, on an extremely valuable site directly across from Pennsylvania Station, fronting on Seventh Avenue. Because it’s lost some luster over the years, the hotel probably has a rough time drawing business travelers. I stayed there as a young person around 1984, and by that time it was passable but dowdy. Judging by some of the recent reviews on TripAdvisor (e.g., “a real life episode of American Horror Story” and “there were blood stains on the pillows”), it’s slipped further since then. Eight years ago, Roth said that he was planning to renovate and turn it into something great, but we live in a different economic climate now, and the empty air above that giant site at 401 Seventh is apparently just too tempting to resist. A 1,270-foot tower, bearing the not-at-all-phallic name of PENN15, is its likely replacement.

Concrete Catholic church completes years-long $2.5M upgrade – mlive.com

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Concrete Catholic church completes years-long $2.5M upgrade – mlive.com

NORTON SHORES, MI - A years-long effort to renovate?and expand St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church, a "world recognized work of architectural art," to the tune of $2.5 million has been completed.

The Norton Shores church known for its poured concrete facade?now has a more visible main entrance along with other improvements.

"We have a church here that's a world recognized work of architectural art?but there was no good door to get in," said the Rev. Charles Hall, of St. Francis.