123 year old Paris headquartered French concessions & construction giant VINCI’s subsidiary Cobra IS has signed the contract to equip the Femern tunnel with electromechanical installations. The contract is over EUR 535 million. It focuses primarily on ventilation, lighting and safety systems, plus maintenance for the electromechanical systems into the five tubes of the tunnel, two for highway road, two for high-speed rail, and one for service gallery, over the next six years.The Femern, the longest road and rail immersed tunnel in the world, is being built 40 meters below the surface of the Baltic Sea. The construction started in 2020. After its commissioning in 2029, it will link Denmark to Germany in seven minutes by train and 10 minutes by car. VINCI Construction and its partners have been awarded the main civil works design and build contract of the Femern tunnel. In this context, the precast factory construction that will produce the immersed segments of the tunnel is currently in progress.
123 year old Paris headquartered French concessions & construction giant VINCI’s subsidiary Cobra IS has signed the contract to equip the Femern tunnel with electromechanical installations. The contract is over EUR 535 million. It focuses primarily on ventilation, lighting and safety systems, plus maintenance for the electromechanical systems into the five tubes of the tunnel, two for highway road, two for high-speed rail, and one for service gallery, over the next six years.The Femern, the longest road and rail immersed tunnel in the world, is being built 40 meters below the surface of the Baltic Sea. The construction started in 2020. After its commissioning in 2029, it will link Denmark to Germany in seven minutes by train and 10 minutes by car. VINCI Construction and its partners have been awarded the main civil works design and build contract of the Femern tunnel. In this context, the precast factory construction that will produce the immersed segments of the tunnel is currently in progress.
