{"id":3041,"date":"2021-03-05T08:31:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T08:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2021-03-05T08:31:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T08:31:39","slug":"implenia-and-webuild-jv-set-for-bb-tunnel-railway-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/?p=3041","title":{"rendered":"Implenia and Webuild JV set for BB Tunnel railway extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An Implenia and Webuild joint venture has been chose as best bidder for constructing and designing a \u00a3924M (\u20ac1.07bn) high-capacity railway that would expand 22.5km from the Brenner Base (BB) Tunnel between Ponte Gardena and Fortezza, Italy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mostly, the underground expansion on the Verona-Fortezza line is going to run from the southern end of the BB Tunnel along the Munich-Verona railway axis. It would also comprise underground interconnections for Ponte Gardena.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Already, Webuild is working on three main construction sites for the BB Tunnel: the major section at the Italian end of the tunnel with 75km of tunnels; Lot Tulfes-Pfons that contains underground civil works for 38km of tunnels; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geplus.co.uk\/news\/brenner-base-tunnel-tunnelling-enters-next-stage-16-10-2020\/\">underground crossing of the Isarco River<\/a>, behind the southern exit of the BB Tunnel before the Fortezza station, and Mules 2-3.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new extension is going to upgrade the Munich-Verona line by rising the speed of the current line.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 64km Brenner Base Tunnel is going to be the longest railway tunnel in the world and an essential part of the Scandinavian-Mediterranean Corridor of TEN-T (the Trans-European Network), meant to improve railway connections over the continent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Currently, a research is underway to discover <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geplus.co.uk\/news\/brenner-base-tunnel-could-supply-geothermal-energy-25-02-2021\/\">whether the drainage water from the Brenner Base Tunnel could provide geothermal energy<\/a> to Innsbruck in Austria or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Implenia and Webuild joint venture has been chose as best bidder for constructing and designing a \u00a3924M (\u20ac1.07bn) high-capacity railway that would expand 22.5km from the Brenner Base (BB) Tunnel between Ponte Gardena and Fortezza, Italy. Mostly, the underground expansion on the Verona-Fortezza line is going to run from the southern end of the BB Tunnel along the Munich-Verona railway axis. It would also comprise underground interconnections for Ponte Gardena. Already, Webuild is working on three main construction sites for the BB Tunnel: the major section at the Italian end of the tunnel with 75km of tunnels; Lot Tulfes-Pfons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-project-show-case","post--single"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tunnelingworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}