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 the miners and workers, the
representatives of the construction consortium, the local construction
supervisors and the BBT SE.
The works in the Tulfes-Pfons section began in summer
2014. Mechanical excavation in the
exploratory tunnel continues southwards with the tunnel boring machine. If works proceed on schedule, the excavation
of the exploratory tunnel will be concluded in August 2019, with the
dismantling of the tunnel boring machine and a vacated construction site by the
end of November 2019.
In the construction lot Tulfes - Pfons, 42 tunnel kilometres
will be driven, 15 kilometres of which in the exploratory tunnel from Ahrental
towards Pfons using mechanical excavation.
A 3.5-kilometre tunnel
and a 2-kilometre tunnel connect the Brenner Base Tunnel with the
Innsbruck by-pass. A 9 km long emergency tunnel was realised parallel to the
Innsbruck railway by-pass in order to conform to the latest safety requirements
and to allow not only freight traffic but
also passenger traffic to travel from the lower Inn Valley to the Brenner Pass
on the railway line.
For further information
on the Brenner Base Tunnel please click here, at/16 and it/103 for the tunnelbuilder archive. Also visit
https://www.bbt-se.com/en/. 08/19.
Links
https://tunnelbuilder.com/News/Brenner-Base-Tunnel-European-support-for-the-project.aspx
https://tunnelbuilder.com/Archive/Projects.aspx?&projectcode=at%2f16
https://tunnelbuilder.com/Archive/Projects.aspx?&projectcode=at%2f16
