Strabag consortium awarded Eisack River undercrossing contract

Construction group Strabag, in a consortium with the Italian construction companies Salini Impregilo, Consorzio Cooperative Costruzioni and Collini Lavori, has been awarded a US$379.5 million contract to build the Eisack Undercrossing section of the Brenner Base Tunnel. Work is scheduled to begin this year with a planned construction time of around eight years. The contract section is located at the southern end of the Brenner Base Tunnel near the town of Franzensfeste (Fortezza) in the Province of Bozen
October 24, 2014 Read time: 2 mins
Construction group 3861 Strabag, in a consortium with the Italian construction companies Salini Impregilo, Consorzio Cooperative Costruzioni and Collini Lavori, has been awarded a US$379.5 million contract to build the Eisack Undercrossing section of the Brenner Base Tunnel. Work is scheduled to begin this year with a planned construction time of around eight years.

The contract section is located at the southern end of the Brenner Base Tunnel near the town of Franzensfeste (Fortezza) in the Province of Bozen (Bolzano) in South Tyrol. The work comprises the construction of the two 4.3 kilometre main tubes of the future Brenner Base Tunnel, as well as two connecting tunnels to the existing Brenner Railway, adaptations and improvements to the existing infrastructure, and the environmental restoration of all areas after construction is completed.

Thomas Birtel, CEO of Strabag, said: “This is an extremely demanding project from a technical point of view, as it undercrosses the river Eisack, the Brenner Motorway, the state highway and the Brenner Railway with a very low rock overburden. We look forward to this challenge.”

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