Albvorland Tunnel

The Albvorlandtunnel is a planned 8.176 km long railwail tunnel of new Wendlingen–Ulm high-speed railway in Baden-Württemberg. It will underpass part of town Kirchheim-Lindorf and also Bundesautobahn 8 with junction Kirchheim-East in the industrial area of Dettingen unter Teck [1] The 8176 m long building is between kilometer 26,077 und 34,253. It is on the boundary of Wendlingen am Neckar, Kirchheim unter Teck, Lindorf and Dettingen unter Teck. It underpasses motorway 8 (km 32,259 bis ca. 33,9) and also a high pressure gas line and a NATO fuel line.

The tunnel traverses under and middle layers of black jura. The biggest superposition is 65 meters.[2] The smallest superposition is 9,50 m. High water pressure is expected.

The call for competition European-wide had 8 bidders. The order has an amount of 380 million € and was given on 18. December 2015 the Swiss company Implenia.[3]

The work should be finished within 46 months.

In a planning paper from the Deutsche Bahn (March 2012) they thought plan approval could be achieved in 2014, start of work 2014 and end of work in 2021.[4] In May 2012 plan approval was announced for end of September 2012. In spring 2014 the company said plan approval should be finished till the beginning of year 2015. Work should start in 2016.

Albvorlandtunnel Wendlingen Preparation of the building site July 2016

Costs

The costs of 270 million € were announced in a newspaper in April 2014 . The Cabinet of Germany said this could be true.[5] In April 2009 the rough costs were calculated by 16,5 millionen € per kilometer and tube. The total cost of section 2.1 will be 798,7 millionen € (state 2010).

References

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  1. ↑ 24 Stunden am Tag wird gebaut. In: Der Teckbote, 14. Mai 2009.
  2. ↑ Hany Azer, B. Engel: Stuttgart 21 und NBS Wendlingen–Ulm. In: Tunnel, Heft 7/2009, ISSN 0722-6241, S. 12–24 (PDF, 290 kB).
  3. ↑ Bahn vergibt Auftrag für den Bau des Albvorlandtunnels. Presseinformation vom 18. Dezember 2015.
  4. ↑ Thomas Wüpper: Bahn rechnet intern mit weiterer Verspätung. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung, Jg. 68, Nr. 93, 21./22. April 2012, S. 21 (ähnliche Fassung online).
  5. ↑ Michael Deufel (12 4 2014), [online "Graben im Akkord"] (in German), Stuttgarter Nachrichten (86): pp. 20, online
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