Lötschberg Base Tunnel
General Information
| Structural Type: |
Tunnel
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| Function / usage: |
Railroad (railway) tunnel
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| Other name(s): | Lötschberg-Basistunnel |
| Built: | 1994 - 2007 |
| Status: | in use |
Geographic Information & Related Structures
| Location: |
Frutigen, Berne, Switzerland, Europe Raron, Valais, Switzerland, Europe |
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| Connects to |
Raron Rail Bridge (2004)
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Technical Information
Dimensions
| total length of bored tunnels (tubes and crosstubes) | 88 km | |
| eastern tube | length | 34 576.6 m |
| western tube | length | 27.2 km |
Materials
| tunnel structure |
reinforced concrete
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Participants
Owner
Structural engineering
Co-contractor
- Balfour Beatty Construction (Lot 46.43.010)
- Batigroup AG (Lot 45.35.100)
- Bouygues Construction (Lot 46.23.010)
- Dénériaz Sion SA (Lot 46.22.010)
- Ed. Ast & Co. (Lot 44.31.001)
- Evequoz SA (Lot 46.22.010)
- Frutiger AG (Lot 45.35.100)
- Losinger Construction AG (Lot 46.22.010)
- Marti Tunnelbau AG (Lot 46.43.010)
- Porr Tunnelbau GmbH (Lot 46.43.010)
- Prader AG Tunnelbau (Lot 46.22.010)
- Preiswerk & Esser AG (Lot 44.31.001)
- Rothpletz, Lienhard + Cie AG (Lot 44.31.001)
- Schmalz SA (Lot 44.31.001)
- Seeberger & Jordi AG (Lot 45.35.100)
- Skanska AB (Lot 45.31.100)
- Strabag AG (Lot 45.31.100)
- Ulrich Imboden AG (Lot 46.23.010)
- Vinci Construction Grands Projets (Lot 45.31.100)
- Visp und Theler AG (Lot 46.23.010)
- Walo Bertschinger AG (Lot 45.35.100)
- Walter Bau AG (Lot 46.43.010)
Construction supervision
Relevant Web Sites
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ARGE Ferden
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ARGE MaTrans
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BBC News: Alpine tunnel metres from finish (28.04.2005)
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BLS Alptransit Lötschberg
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ENR: Alpine Tunneling Is Swift So Far As Crews Probe For Unstable Rock (15.07.2002)
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Tunnel de base du Lötschberg
Relevant Publications
- Lätschberg-Basistunnel - Baulose Steg und Raron, Schweiz(brochure/prospectus), Vienna (Austria)
- Lötschberg Base Tunnel: Geological Problems Encountered at Mitholz and Track-Laying Work Commences, in "Felsbau", 2004, n. 4 v. 22
- Eröffnung des Lötschberg-Basistunnel, in "Bautechnik", July 2007, n. 7 v. 84
- Le tunnel du Lötschberg est excavé à plus de 98%, in "Tunnels et Ouvrages Souterrains", November 2004, n. 186
- Lötschberg-Basistunnel, Stämpfli Verlag, Switzerland (Switzerland), ISBN 3727211741, 2005
- Lötschberg. Le tunnel des titans, in "Le Moniteur des Travaux Publics et du Bâtiment", 15 August 2003, n. 5203
- Echanges franco-suisses, in "Tunnels et Ouvrages Souterrains", July - August 2003, n. 178
- Gestion complexe des matériaux dans les nouvelles traversées alpines du Lötschberg et du Saint-Gothard, in "Tunnels et Ouvrages Souterrains", July - August 2003, n. 178
- Neue Lötschberg-Achse Tunnel Engstlige, in "Bautechnik", September 2006, n. 9 v. 83
- Le lot Arge - Ferden du projet Alp-Transit. Un bi-tube de 11,6 km creusé à l'explosif, in "Travaux", February 2003, n. 794
- La ventilation et la réfrigération de chantier du tunnel de base de Loetschberg, presented at AFTES – Paris 25-28 octobre 1999.
- Convoyeurs à bande pour évacuation des déblais du tunnel de base de Lötschberg (portion Ferden), in "Tunnels et Ouvrages Souterrains", July - August 2003, n. 178
- BLS AlpTransit Lötschberg - Basistunnel Ferden, in "Prader Information", 2001, n. 2
- The exploitation of warm tunnel water through the example of the Lötschberg Base Tunnel in Switzerland / Nutzung warmer Tunnelwässer am Beispiel des Lötschberg-Basistunnels in der Schweiz, in "Geomechanics and Tunnelling", 2010, n. 5 v. 3
- Lötschberg-Basistunnel, Stämpfli Verlag AG, Switzerland (Switzerland), ISBN 3727211741, 2005
- Apre il traforo di base del Lötschberg: un popolo ha spostato le montagne, in "Strade e Autostrade", July 2007, n. 64
- Mitholz: tunnel de base du Lötschberg - Section nord, in "Travaux", February 2004, n. 805
- Der Lötschberg-Basistunnel - Porr Tunnelbau in der Schweiz, in "Porr-Nachrichten", 2002, n. 139
- Tunnel de base du Lötschberg: 28 km d'excavation pour lot de Mitholz, in "Travaux", October 2006, n. 834
- Lötschberg-Basistunnel – gebirgsbedingte Schwierigkeiten bei den TBM-Vortrieben, in "Felsbau", 2003, n. 5 v. 21
- Un premier pas de géant dans les Alpes, in "Le Moniteur des Travaux Publics et du Bâtiment", 22 June 2007, n. 5404
- Ausbruch des Nordabschnittes des Lötschberg-Basistunnels, in "Felsbau", 2001, n. 5 v. 19
- Alptransit. Galerie de reconnaissance du Lötschberg, presented at AFTES - Journées d'études, Chambéry, 1996.
- L'avancement au tunnelier sur les tunnels de Lötschberg et du Gothard: comparaison de deux expériences significatives, presented at AFTES - Journées techniques, Chambéry, 2005.
- Lötschberg Base Tunnel – Passing under the BLS Mountain Railway Line at Frutigen, in "Felsbau", 2004, n. 4 v. 22
- Lötschberg-Basistunnel Herausforderungen beim Innenausbau, in "Beton- und Stahlbetonbau", December 2009, n. 12 v. 104
- Von der ersten Kostenprognose zu den mutmaßlichen Endkosten beim Lötschberg-Basistunnel, in "Felsbau", 2006, n. 5 v. 24
- Lötschberg-Basistunnel. Das schöne, alter Walliser Dorf St. German senkte sich – was ist passiert?, in "Felsbau", 2002, n. 5 v. 20
- Tunnel de base du Lötschberg, in "Tunnels et Ouvrages Souterrains", July 2005, n. 190
- Alpenquerende Tunnel: Materialbewirtschaftung und Betontechnologie beim Lötschberg-Basistunnel, in "Beton- und Stahlbetonbau", January 2007, n. 1 v. 102
- Le tunnel de base du Lötschberg - Les premiers enseignements à en tirer, presented at AFTES - Journées techniques, Chambéry, 2005.
- Überschneideinrichtungen auf Hartgesteins-TBM, in "Felsbau", 2003, n. 5 v. 21
- Lötschberg-Basistunnel – Annäherung an Störungszonen im Spreng- und im TBM-Vortrieb, in "Felsbau", 2006, n. 5 v. 24
Internal Information
| Structure-ID: | s0003965 |
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| Created: | 24/06/2002 |
| Last Updated: | 27/02/2013 |