1 Introduction.- 2 Tunnelling - the need for technological development and innovation.- 3 Improved site investigation.- 4 Advanced pre-processing methods.- 5 Thermochemomechanical material model for shotcrete.- 6 Material model for soil and applications.- 7 Damage mechanics of jointed rock in tunnelling.- 8 Parameter identification and its application in tunneling.- 9 Soft-computing-based parameter identification as the basis for prognoses of the structural behaviour of tunnels.- 10 Quantification of stress states in shotcrete shells.- 11 Compressed air tunnelling - determination of air requirement.- 12 A coupled FE-model for tunnelling by means of compressed air.- 13 A multilaminate model for finite element analysis of tunnel excavation.- 14 Advanced post-processing methods.- 15 Application of numerical simulation at the tunnel site.- 16 Summary and outlook.