Tunnel excavation material - high value raw material / Tunnelausbruchmaterial - hochwertiger Rohstoff

A project called "Recycling of Tunnel Excavation Material" has been running since November 2008, supported by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) and eminent Austrian client organisations and companies engaged in tunnelling and hydropower station construction, to investigate the possible recycling of tunnel excavation material at eleven selected Austrian tunnel and hydropower projects. This is intended to demonstrate economical and environmentally positive recycling. Test strategies are also to be developed for the evaluation of the reusability of tunnel excavation material from the point of view of construction management and economics, both for the individual projects and also relevant to the main lithologies likely to be encountered in Austrian tunnels.