After a long wait, the time had come on October 21, 2023: we received the official letter of assignment from the client, the Stuttgart Regional Council (Department 47.1), for the project “B39 Schemmelsberg Tunnel, main construction measure: construction of a rescue tunnel and tunnel repair work, technical equipment for the main tunnel tube and rescue tunnel”.
Together with our partners Leonhard Weiss and PORR Verkehrstechnik, we submitted the offer on 11.07.2023. The total order volume amounts to approx. EUR 35 million (gross), AUGUST REINERS’ share is approx. EUR 17 million (gross).
The approx. 670 m long Schemmelsberg tunnel no longer meets today’s safety requirements and is to be rebuilt in line with the current state of the art. The core of the project comprises the construction of a 414 m long rescue tunnel with 2 cross-passages to the existing road tunnel, including the construction of a portal structure with an integrated extinguishing water basin, which will be implemented by us as the technical lead in the project.
The first construction activities started at the beginning of November. For the time being, our consortium partner Leonhard Weiss is busy preparing the construction site area. At the start of 2024, our tunnel construction team will also get to work and start securing the embankment at the pre-cut so that tunnel driving can begin at the beginning of March.
We would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone involved an accident-free construction site and, as they say in tunnel construction, a hearty “Good luck!”