By Fehrmarnbelt Link’s tunnel design (stretching for 18 km) aimed to link Lolland Falster in Denmark to Schleswig Holstein in Germany gets a go-ahead.
The proposed immersed tunnel is arguably one of Europe’s mega-projects, designed to focus on public transport’s improvement, supporting the tourism industry and economic growth simultaneously.
The project is being delivered for Femern A/S by a consortium of VINCI Construction Grands Projets (leading contractor for the two tunnels), Per Aarsleff (leading contractor for the portal), Royal BAM Group, Solétanche-Bachy International, CFE, Dredging International, and Max Bögl Stiftung & Co.
Femern A/S invested €7 billion to build a road and rail tunnel made up of hollow concrete elements, cast on land, and assembled section by section to form the tunnel.
An 8 kilometers long trench (60 m wide x 16 m deep) in the seabed must be placed. Thereafter tunnel elements made of concrete, each weighing 73,000 tonnes, will be “towed by large tugboats before being lowered down.”
Please check the following link to see how the tunnel will be built.
