AFTES 2026 | Lille, France

Your underground experts 

• Rail tunnels, including high-speed rail
• Metro lines
• Tunnel and shaft infrastructure
• Caverns with large cross-sections
• Energy storage and utilities 

Engineering at its best 

• Numerous services for your entire project cycle, from feasibility, planning and construction to renewal of your infrastructure
• Trained specialists and experts in planning and design, geotechnics, and project management

Infrastructure experts 

• Rail, metro and tunnels
• Underground spaces
• Mining and shafts 

Systems and solutions 

• Slab track, tamping, mapping, surveying and inspections
• Tunnel machine guidance
• Tunnel profile measurements and stakeout
• Undulation
• Layer thickness control
• Surface inspection
• Geological predicting during tunnel excavation
• Surveying, data analysis and maintenance

Digital infrastructure experts 

• Data acquisition and processing
• Monitoring
• Measurement of geotechnical tasks
• Maintenance and operation
• Process optimisation and digital continuity 

Solutions and services 

• Geo-monitoring
• Mobile mapping
• Geomatics
• Inspection services
• Digital construction

Smart cities and construction logistics experts

• Manage stakeholders across the value chain
• Improve construction mobility in dense cities
• Unlock up to 50% of the true potential of assets
• Integrate circular economy principles into construction
• Use smart data throughout the supply chain 

Solutions for construction sites 

• End-to-end digital logistics processes
• Rapid prototyping and smart sensors (IoT)
• Logistics concept and manual (3D/4D)
• Integration of logistics data
• Logistics insights management (LIM)
• Construction logistics management (CLM)
• Management of external hubs and consolidation

Design and construction experts 

• Design and BIM integration
• Coordination between different disciplines
• Information workflow setup
• Facility management and BIM integration
• Visualisation 

Services 

• BIM implementation and creation of models
• Clash detection, coordination and clash resolution
• Construction documentation and shop drawings
• 4D simulation and 5D estimation
• Underground utilities
• Laser scan to as-built models
• IT solutions – BIM integration with FM application

VersuchsStollen Hagerbach - The underground future lab 

Recently named a research infrastructure of national importance, we have been providing the space and expertise to turn visions into innovations for over 50 years. 

Your analysis and testing requirements 

• Real scale test and prototype environment
• Analysis of construction material
• Training facility
• Unique location for your event 

Our facilities and services 

• Various test sites, test procedures and management
• Concrete and rock laboratory
• Training environment and syllabus
• Seminar rooms, event cavern and restaurant

AI agent as a service for the construction industry 

• AI agent dedicated to the AEC industry
• Easy access to complex project information
• Helps in taking confident, informed decisions
• Opens data silos, unlocks all content and uncovers context
• Effortless interaction with your most valuable asset – your collective knowledge 

Solution and services 

• AI agent as a service
• Strategic consulting and training
• Development of tailored solutions