Flashes of Light at the End of the Tunnel
Aug 10, 2012
Excavation of a complex tunnel system for the XFEL European research facility in metropolitan area Hamburg was successfully completed in early June when the Herrenknecht AMELI tunnel boring machine entered its last target shaft. AMELI and its TBM sister TULA had to be relocated several times for the eleven tunnel sections between the research center DESY in Hamburg Bahrenfeld and Schenefeld in the district of Pinneberg. Exact laser technology provided by the Gesellschaft für Vermessungstechnik (VMT) kept the two TBMs perfectly on course over the route totaling 5.78 kilometers.
Other key projects in Hamburg
1985 – 1987 | Herrenknecht delivered its first Mixshield for the Hadron-Elektron-Ring-Anlage (HERA): HERAKLES. | |
Diameter: 5.95 meters | Tunnel length: 6,300 meters | |
1997 – 2000 | Herrenknecht Mixshield TRUDE (deep under the Elbe) masters the fourth tube of the Elbe Tunnel. | |
Diameter: 14.2 meters | Tunnel length: 2,560 meters | |
2004 – 2006 | SOFIA (German acronym for: Olsdorf-Airport suburban railway in progress) burrows through construction sections 5-8 of the Hamburg Airport suburban railway line (S1). | |
Diameter: 6.87 meters | Tunnel length: 3,413 meters | |
2008– 2010 | The Mixshield VERA excavated for the U4 metro line (from the Elbe toward the Alster). | |
Diameter: 6.57 meters | Tunnel length: 5,620 meters |
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