SPI Projekte - City-Tunnel Leipzig

City-Tunnel Leipzig

The tunnel for the suburban fast train (S-Bahn) in Leipzig is planned to cross underneath the city centre from the train station Bayerischer Bahnhof to the central train station with five underground stations on
a length of 3.5 km. In this tunnel all S-Bahn lines will be bundled, shorter running times are the consequence. The total length of the train route will be around 6.2 km. The track sections will be built by means of shield tunnelling with two tunnel tubes, the stations by the open construction method.

Country:
Germany, Free State of Saxony

Building owner and originator:
S-Bahn-Tunnel Leipzig GmbH and DEGES (German Union Highway Planning and Construction Ltd.)

Planning period:
1996-2005

Construction period:
2004-2009

Construction costs:
520 million Euro, approx. 350 million Euro of it for preliminary building works

Work carried out:
General planning (partly in ARGE)
- feasibility studies
- fundamentals study and pre-planning
- design and approval planning
- elaboration of the bidding documents (partly in ARGE)
- cooperation in project management
- final planning of the underground stations Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz, Markt and Leipzig Hauptbahnhof

Further information on the City Tunnel in Leipzig under:
www.citytunnelleipzig.de

http://www.arge-ctl.de