Interview: Construction in urban areas
Every construction project has specific features that must be taken into account. With years of experience of implementation in the most challenging locations and under the most difficult conditions, the experts from PICHLER PROJECTS also know what to look out for in particular when it comes to implementation and execution in urban areas. In an interview with SI Urban, Tanja Pichler explains exactly where things can get difficult and which materials are especially suitable for use in city projects.
Cable Car & Software – Digital System maintenance
Since its inception, the funicular in Luxembourg has used digital maintenance software SAMBESI. Thanks to the maintenance programme from Swiss company REMEC, the funicular service runs smoothly – even though the operators are new to the industry.
The marketplace for urban cable cars
Cable cars are on the rise. More and more cities are incorporating the cable-drawn transport system into their transport planning. Yet, because the cable car is new to the urban sphere, there is still a lack of key interconnections. Specialist trade fair with integrated congress CABLE CAR WORLD hopes to tackle precisely this issue and to bring together a broad range of stakeholders and decision-makers from politics, administration, planning, science, economics and urban society in Essen, and so to achieve widespread knowledge sharing. On 7th and 8th February 2022 at Essen exhibition centre, it will therefore be all about the subject of the cable car.
WORLD’S FIRST BEACH CABLE CAR
Vidanta Nuevo Vallarta Resort hotel in Mexico always wants to offer guests the best possible comfort. The latest idea for this is a roughly six-kilometre-long cable car, which will carry hotel guests to the nearby beach within only a few minutes.
A traditional cable car in a new guise
Bayerische Rundfunk (Bavarian broadcasting, or “BR” for short) based in Munich is one of the best known broadcasters in the German-speaking region. It is the only broadcasting company in Germany to own a cable car – the cable car that runs up Grünten mountain, on which TEUFELBERGER-REDAELLI fitted new suspension cables in June.
Bartholet – Ski fun with a sea view in Croatia
First BARTHOLET system on the popular Croatian sport mountain.