Publications
One of AFTES’s missions is to pass on knowledge and information through a wide range of documents. This section lists the many recommendations, journals, information sheets, reports and other documents at your disposal. These publications may be downloaded free of charge by AFTES members, and are available to purchase for non-members. They are only available in digital format (in your member area, under the downloads section).
To consult the list of published recommendations, click here.
Tunnels et Espace Souterrain magazine provides a wealth of documentation on underground structures built in France and abroad over the past 50 years. More than 500 articles describe specific tunnels or galleries, including 147 technical data sheets on tunnel-boring projects, drawn up by AFTES. To facilitate access to this information, an interactive cartography, designed in collaboration with CETU, has been put online on the AFTES website, enabling various searches and filters. Articles and fact sheets can be downloaded from the “publications” section of the site.
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AFTES Working Groups and Recommendations
FREEList of recommendations developed by the AFTES Working Groups (GT). The GTs, currently numbering 28, bring together more than 300 engineers and specialists from across the profession.
Anglo-French Glossary of Underground Civil Engineering
FREEThis French–English Glossary of underground civil engineering is a collective work produced by a small working group established by the Publications Committee of AFTES.
Guide for water protection and drainage of underground structures – Booklet 9 – GT9.C9A1
30,00€ (30,00€ Excluding tax)BOOKLET 9: Connections to existing structures
Thematic : Grouting and waterproofing
Digital publishing (Avril 2026)
Mechanical ventilation for underground structures during construction and rehabilitation – GT27.R1A2
30,00€ (30,00€ Excluding tax)Recommendations GT27.R1A2
Thematic: Transversal tasks (quality, security, logistics …)Tunnels and Underground Spaces – N°294 – October-November-December 2025
20,00€ (20,00€ Excluding tax)For this issue of TES no. 294, and for the next issue in early 2026, our Publications Committee wanted to broaden our international perspective by presenting some flagship projects in which French contractors and engineering companies are excelling. On the same international theme, you will also find a very interesting overview of radioactive waste storage around the world.
Guide for water protection and drainage of underground structures – Booklet 7 – GT9.C7A1
30,00€ (30,00€ Excluding tax)BOOKLET 7: Design of technical returns for internal waterproofing systems
Thematic : Grouting and waterproofing
Digital publishing (December 2025)
Guide for water protection and drainage of underground structures – Booklet 11 – GT9.C11A1
30,00€ (30,00€ Excluding tax)BOOKLET 11 : Compartmentalization of GBR-P and GBR-B
Thematic : Grouting and waterproofing
Digital publishing (December 2025)
Tunnels and Underground Spaces – N°293 – July-August-September 2025
20,00€ (20,00€ Excluding tax)In this edition, an article by Michel Gérard, former President of the ‘Clé de Sol’ national research project, reminds us of the success achieved by the programme when it was completed some twenty years ago, yet in his interview he also points out the many obstacles that still need to be overcome in order to implement multi-utility galleries.
Guide for water protection and drainage of underground structures – Booklet 1 – GT9.C1A1
30,00€ (30,00€ Excluding tax)BOOKLET 1 – Presentation of Water Protection Methods, Drainage Systems and their On-Site Inspection
Thematic : Grouting and waterproofingDigital publishing (October 2023)
Tunnels and Underground Spaces – N°292 – April-May-June 2025
20,00€ (20,00€ Excluding tax)This issue provides an update on the association’s activities, a technical dossier consisting of articles covering feedback and various technical advances in engineering or construction works, and an AFTES evaluation of hydrophilic Swelling Waterstops.
Tunnels and Underground Spaces – N°291 – January-February-March 2025
20,00€ (20,00€ Excluding tax)This issue provides a comprehensive overview of the association’s activities and includes a technical section with four articles (green use of infrastructure, innovative design of megastations – Melbourne, virtual reality applied to underground structures, etc.).
Wet-Mix Spayed Concrete for Permanent Application in Underground Structures – Principles and Specification Guide – GT6.R5A1
30,00€ (30,00€ Excluding tax)Prepublication digital edition, (Updated December 2023)
Theme: Conventional supports and linings
Tunnels and Underground Spaces – AFTES national technical days – Toulouse 2025
20,00€ (20,00€ Excluding tax)This special issue describes the activities of the MEP Committee, and presents the key players in this work currently underway in the Occitan region, Tisséo, project owner for the Toulouse Metro, Herrenknecht, global leader in the manufacture of TBMs, and Bessac, the only French manufacturer and operator of TBMs, operating in five continents.
Selection process for closed-mode tunnel boring machines – GT4.R8A1
30,00€ (30,00€ Excluding tax)Selection process for closed-mode tunnel boring machines
Thematic : TBM, shields and segments
Guide for water protection and drainage of underground structures – Booklet 10 – GT9.C10A1
30,00€ (30,00€ Excluding tax)BOOKLET 10 – Waterproofing of integrated structures
Thematic : Grouting and waterproofingDigital publishing (February 2025)
TBM Data no. 146
FREEGrand Paris Express Line 18 #1 – TBM2 – France – 2021-2024
The tunnel boring sheets make it possible to understand the context of the project through its characteristics, present the geological model of the associated tunnel and detail the machine used for the excavation with its technical specificities and innovations.TBM Data no. 145
FREEGrand Paris Express Line 18 #1 – TBM1 – France – 2021-2024
The tunnel boring sheets make it possible to understand the context of the project through its characteristics, present the geological model of the associated tunnel and detail the machine used for the excavation with its technical specificities and innovations.TBM Data no. 144
FREERTE Technical gallery – Saint-Denis – 93, France – 2021-2022
The tunnel boring sheets make it possible to understand the context of the project through its characteristics, present the geological model of the associated tunnel and detail the machine used for the excavation with its technical specificities and innovations.GT28 – Shallow shafts – Sheet N°002
FREEShallow Shaft – Sheet N°002 – VSM® Mechanized Sinking
Grand Paris Express – Line 15 South – T3C Contract
“ Cimetière Parisien ” ancillary shaft
France — Bagneux (Hauts-de-Seine)GT28 – Shallow shafts – Sheet N°001
FREEShallow shafts – Sheet N°001 – (Diaphragm Wall)
Grand Paris Express– Line 15 South – T3A Contract
“ Île Monsieur ” ancillary shaft
France — Sèvres (Hauts-de-Seine)AftesTuesday#LYON – December 3, 2024 – Presentation 2
FREEA look back at the design-build challenge of the 9 tunnels for the expansion of the United Arab Emirates railway network (UAE) – José Gonzáles del Tánago, SYSTRA
AftesTuesday#LYON – December 3, 2024 – Presentation 1
FREEPresentation of the TEOL Project – Geoffrey Dufour, Sarah Emmelin & Sonia Turmel, SYTRAL Mobilités
Tunnels and Underground Spaces – N°290 – October-November-December 2024
20,00€ (20,00€ Excluding tax)This issue offers a complete file devoted to development of the design and construction of LARGE-SCALE UNDERGROUND RAIL STRUCTURES in Paris.
Tunnels and Underground Spaces – N°289 – July-August-September 2024
20,00€ (20,00€ Excluding tax)This issue offers articles on: Introduction to the guide to good practices in underground spaces – Thoughts on the combination of metro and dedicated highway lanes, key to efficient urban transport – The Contribution of numerical modelling to the construction of the Saint-Maur Créteil station cavern
