Excavation work has begun on the main tunnel for BBT construction lot H41 Sill Gorge-Pfons, in Ahrental near Innsbruck. The Austrian Federal Minister Leonore Gewessler the patroness was ...
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On the 19/05/2022 at 13h45 an excavator broke through between lot H71 Eisack undercrossing (built by Webuild) and Lot Mules 2-3 (built by Webuild and Ghella), on the Italian side of the East line ...
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On 04/05/2022 a ground breaking ceremony was held for Lot H52 Hochstegen in the presence of Maria Lorenzatto, godmother of the tunnel, along with the various authorities and companies involved. The ...
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On 07/04/2022 about a month after the start of the excavation work, the last main tunnel below the Eisack riverbed for the future railway Brenner Base Tunnel has broken through.
A total ...
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As of January 2022, 4 main construction lots are under construction: Mules 2-3, Isarco River Underpass (Italian project area); Sill gorge, Sill gorge - Pfons (Austrian project area).
In ...
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On the 24/11/2021 TBM Serena with a diameter of 6.85m, a length of approximately 300m and weight 1,500 t has reached the Brenner Pass. The TBM has excavated over 14 km of tunnel in 3.5 years. The ...
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On the 07/09/2021, after the approval of the updated construction programme, approval was also obtained for the total costs of the BBT project, which had been updated to take the following issues ...
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On 19/04/2021 - about one month after construction works started, they broke through. The works were below the riverbed of the Isarco river for the future Brenner Base Tunnel railway. Excavation ...
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In the town of Fortezza works on the Isarco River Underpass construction site, which is the southernmost construction lot of the Brenner Base Tunnel, are proceeding at full speed. Two 25 m deep ...
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On the 6th of November 2020 an excavator with hydraulic hammer broke through the first 59 m tunnel under the Isarco river. The ground in the most southern construction lot of the ...
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After months of preparation on the Isarco River Underpass construction site, the excavation of the first few metres of the tunnel has begun.
The excavation works in this southernmost ...
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The new Brenner Base Tunnel, which is the responsibility of BBT, is being built to boost the capacity of the Verona-Fortezza access line from the south, which is being built by RFI. The line is ...
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On 06/07/20 the TBM Gunther, tunnelling from Ahrental (Innsbruck) in the north completed its 16.7 km long exploratory tunnel. The TBM averaged 11 m of tunnelling per day. The breakthrough, ...
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On the 29th of November 2019 the Brenner Base tunnel reached a milestone and is now 50 % complete. So far they have tunnelled 150km of the 230km needed to finish the project. The Brenner Base Tunnel ...
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Starting on September 18th, 2019 Martin Gradnitzer and Gilberto Cardola will take the helm of the Brenner Base Tunnel cross-border project company in Austria and Italy, replacing the ...
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Breakthrough in the Tulfes–Pfons section - On February 12th,
2019, the last breakthrough by blasting took place in the Tulfes-Pfons section.
On that occasion, a small ceremony was held for ...
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Following the recent breakthrough of the southern portal of the Brenner Base Tunnel, European Commissioner for Transport, Violeta Bulc, visited the BBT construction sites near Fortezza.
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On St Barbaras day the 4th of December 2018 the
southern portal of the Brenner Base tunnel near Fortezza Station broke through.
93 km of the total 230 km that will make up the Brenner Base tunnel ...
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This year, you have the unique chance to visit the entire
underground area between the Ahrental access tunnel, Aldrans and Ampass and to
see the different steps required to build a tunnel lining ...
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The TBM Chessie, that was custom-made by Herrenknecht for
Dragados USA Inc and Schiavone Construction Co. LLC, is now ready to begin construction
of the New Tunnel under the Thimble Shoal Canal in ...
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FLAVIA” joins “VIRGINIA”
The last large component of the TBM “Flavia” has arrived at
the Mules construction site. A short video shows the long journey that began ...
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The first 100 m of Exploratory tunnel had started being excavated for the Brenner base tunnel overnight the 24th and 25th May. The TBM Serena started at the beginning of May, has now ...
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On the 15.07.2016 the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel Commission announced that the revised technical proposals were submitted from all three teams in the competitive procurement to construct a new ...
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On the 12.07.2016 the groundbreaking ceremony was held for the main works for the Isarco River Underpass construction lot. This is at the southernmost part of the Brenner Base Tunnel just before the ...
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BBT received tenders from the following 6 groups for the construction of Brenner Base Tunnel, Lot Mules 2-3:
Astaldi SpA, Ghella SpA, Oberosler Cav Pietro SpA, Cogeis SpA, PAC SpA;
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RFI and Italferr have completed the final design for the Fortezza-Ponte Gardena access, which is part of the Brenner Base Tunnel project and filed it at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport. ...
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On the 26/09/2015 the ceremony was held for the launch of a TBM in at the Brenner Base Tunnel in Innsbruck, Austria. The cavern at the Ahrental end was used for assembly and launch. There were ...
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CIPE has approved the construction of Brenner Basis Tunnel, Lot 3 Mules-Brenner. Some EUR920 million are now available for the Brenner project to be added to EU funds. The lot involves completion of ...
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The Parallel Thimble Shoal Tunnel Project in Virginia, US currently includes the following elements of design and construction:
approximately 1,740 m of two-lane tunnel connecting previously ...
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On 24.03.2015 the Province of Bolzano approved the project for the construction of the main tunnels of the Brenner Basis Tunnel (Lot Mules) and confirmed the requirements for environmental ...
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On 20.03.2015, at Innsbruck, the joint statement on cross alpine corridors was signed. The Austria, Germany, France, Slovenia, Switzerland and Liechtenstein ministers of transport signed an European ...
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On 14.01.2015 the fourth TBM, named Maria after 19th century Aboriginal rights advocate Maria Lock, started boring for North West Rail Link in Sydney, Australia. The 900 t TBM was delivered to the ...
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Consortium Salini Impregilo/Strabag has agreed with client BBT SE to start construction of the EUR300 million Isarco River Underpass, part of the southern lot of the Brenner Base Tunnel located in ...
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Excavations on the Tulfes-Pfons construction lot began on 18.09.2014 with a solemn ceremony.
The BBT project along the 9,000 km north-south corridor from Helsinki to La Valletta is very important ...
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On 12.09.2014 was held the final conference of the three-year Interreg Italy-Austria IBBT project on flooring, lining and innovative lighting for tunnels. The project, co-funded Interreg IV ...
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Excavation work by Swietelsky construction company has started on the access tunnel in Wolf, near Steinach, Austria with the first blast on December 4th, St. Barbara's Day.
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