Austria

New Semmering Base Tunnel:
Work commences

The 27.3 km long new Semmering Base Tunnel, which will link Mürzzuschlag in Styria with Gloggnitz in Lower Austria, is one of Europe’s biggest infrastructure projects. After obtaining permission for building a year ago, work started in April 2012. The first construction activities are taking place at the Gloggnitz portal zone; these include the building of a number of rail and road bridges as well as site yards for the tunnel drives in addition to structures for protection against flooding.

The new Semmering Base Tunnel will be provided with 2 parallel single-track tunnel bores with a...

Issue 01/2015 Austria

New Semmering Base Tunnel: Gloggnitz Preliminary Work finished

The 27.3 km long New Semmering Base Tunnel (SBTn) is a major element of the new Austrian southern rail route. Its two bores are to be linked every 500 m by cross-passages and an emergency halt with...

Issue 05/2015 Austria

Semmering Base Tunnel: Start of Work on the Tunnel Shafts at Lot 2.1, Fröschnitzgraben

The two shafts that will allow tunnelling to proceed towards Gloggnitz and Mürzzuschlag are now being built at Lot 2.1 of the Semmering Base Tunnel in Fröschnitzgraben, Austria. At the end of July...

Issue 07/2011 Austria

Semmering Base Tunnel: Construction approved

The new roughly 27 km long Semmering Base Tunnel can now be built for Austrias supreme railway authority confirmed its environmental compatibility on May 30, exactly a year after the relevant...

Issue 04/2015 Austria

Semmering Base Tunnel: Implenia, Hochtief and Thyssen to build Tunnel Gloggnitz

At the Semmering Base Tunnel (SBT) ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG has awarded a joint venture of Implenia, Hochtief Infrastructure Austria and Thyssen Schachtbau the contract for section SBT1.1 Tunnel...

Issue 02/2014 Austria

Construction halted at Semmering Base Tunnel‘s North Portal

Start of construction and construction halted in the same month: work on the first contract section of the Semmering Base Tunnel had scarcely begun in January when the Austrian administrative court...

tunnel 07/2012