Work has started on the southern end of northern Europe’s largest infrastructure project, the Fehmarnbelt tunnel between Germany and Denmark. The construction team includes Vinci’s Grands Projets arm and its groundworks subsidiary Soletanche Bachy International, Danish infrastructure engineer Per Aarsleff, CFE, Dutch companies BAM International and Dredging International, and German engineers Wayss & Freytg Ingenieurbau and Max Bögl.Atkins will provide consultancy services for the rail element of the scheme and a joint venture between UK consulting engineer Arup and its Danish counterpart Ramboll is acting as the project’s technical consultant.The tunnel will be 9m high and 43m wide, and will be made from 200m-long precast concrete box girders, 79 in number’ being manufactured at Rødby on the Danish side of the link. When the 18km-long immersed tunnel is completed in 2029, it will carry four lanes of traffic and two electrified rail lines between the Danish island of Lolland and the German island of Fehmarn. The rail lines will operate at speeds of up to 200 km/h, cutting the journey time between Denmark and Germany to seven minutes, and the journey from Hamburg to Copenhagen to 2.5 hours.
Work has started on the southern end of northern Europe’s largest infrastructure project, the Fehmarnbelt tunnel between Germany and Denmark. The construction team includes Vinci’s Grands Projets arm and its groundworks subsidiary Soletanche Bachy International, Danish infrastructure engineer Per Aarsleff, CFE, Dutch companies BAM International and Dredging International, and German engineers Wayss & Freytg Ingenieurbau and Max Bögl.Atkins will provide consultancy services for the rail element of the scheme and a joint venture between UK consulting engineer Arup and its Danish counterpart Ramboll is acting as the project’s technical consultant.The tunnel will be 9m high and 43m wide, and will be made from 200m-long precast concrete box girders, 79 in number’ being manufactured at Rødby on the Danish side of the link. When the 18km-long immersed tunnel is completed in 2029, it will carry four lanes of traffic and two electrified rail lines between the Danish island of Lolland and the German island of Fehmarn. The rail lines will operate at speeds of up to 200 km/h, cutting the journey time between Denmark and Germany to seven minutes, and the journey from Hamburg to Copenhagen to 2.5 hours.
