By rosebell
Providing a Lego model of the 18km Fehmarnbelt tunnel using more than 800,000 Lego bricks, Legoland is opening the exhibition in Billund this year in collaboration with Sund & Bælt.
With the aim of telling the story of the tunnel’s construction in a new and fun way, Sund & Bælt and Legoland have joined forces, whereas geting more young people interested in vocational training and, in the long term, attract more apprentices to the construction industry is one of the goals.
According to Sund & Bælt CEO Mikkel Hemmingsen: “At Sund & Bælt, we are committed to educating the workforce of the future. The Fehmarnbelt project alone will train several hundred apprentices, but young people are in high demand today.By partnering with Legoland, we hope to inspire young people in a fun and engaging way to explore the opportunities within vocational training.”
The scheduled date for openning Fehmarnbelt tunnel exhibition that is currently being assembled in Miniland at Legoland in Billund is June 2025. Miniland is a large area in the middle of the park with miniature versions of famous cities, buildings, monuments and infrastructure from around the world built from Lego bricks.
Including the tunnel factory, work vessels, immersion of tunnel elements as well as local landmarks from both Lolland-Falster and northern Germany, the tunnel construction site model is going to cover an area of more than 250m2.
While the first nine of the tunnel’s 89 tunnel elements have been cast at the real construction site, the first element is expected to be immersed this year.
The Fehmarnbelt Tunnel will have a dual carriageway in each direction and two electrified railway tracks for high-speed trains following completion and it is due to take 10 minutes to drive from Denmark to Germany by car and seven minutes by train, while the tunnel will make it possible to travel by train between Hamburg and Copenhagen in just 2.5 hours.
