Zurich/Dübendorf/Bastrop – Swissloop Tunneling has won the Not-a-Boring-Competition 2024 in Texas and claimed the Champion Award. The team from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich was supported by the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology.
Swissloop Tunneling has won the third edition of the Not-a-Boring-Competition held in Bastrop, Texas. The competition is the brainchild of Elon Musk and is organized by The Boring Company, which he owns. The aim is to construct efficient tunnel infrastructure, including for Musk’s high-speed transportation system known as Hyperloop. In order to achieve this, innovative solutions must first be developed to increase the speed of tunnel boring machines and cut the construction costs.
Swissloop Tunneling won the Innovation Award in 2021 and 2023 and finished in second place overall. This year, the team from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology inZurich has managed to win the competition and the Champion Award title for the first time, further details of which can be found in a press release. Alongside Swissloop Tunneling, two other teams from the USA as well as one each from the UK and Bangladesh made it through to the final. The Swiss project has had the support of industrial partners for several years. The Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology provides workshops and testing grounds in Dübendorf in the canton of Zurich.
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