Fehmarnbelt Tunnel

2013/02/06 By Finn Mølsted Rasmussen

How to get an overview of the traffic in Fehmarn Belt?

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My name is Finn Mølsted Rasmussen. I am 43 years old and Senior Project Manager in Ramboll’s department for Risk and Safety. This is my first contribution to the blog as a guest blogger. In my department we have been working with navigational safety for ships passing through Fehmarnbelt during construction and operation of the

2012/11/12 By Susanne Kalmar Pedersen

This is how the Fehmarn belt tunnel project will be divided in contracts

Naha port immersed tube tunnel element

Right now we continue our work on preparing the tender document and technical support for the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in Denmark and in Germany. This time though, I will follow up on the four main contracts of the Fehmarn belt tunnel project and elaborate on the competitive dialogue described in the prequalification documents. The

2012/10/10 By Susanne Kalmar Pedersen

Prequalification for the Fehmarnbelt tunnel is a milestone for the project

Map of traffic route

I apologise for the blog being a bit quiet for a long time. It has been a very busy period for us where we have worked on three parallel processes: Preparation of the tender document and technical support to the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in Denmark and in Germany.

2011/08/26 By Susanne Kalmar Pedersen

The construction of the Fehmarn tunnel

immersed-tunnel

This blog post will pick up the underwater construction process where the last blog post left off. In the previous blog I explained how the trench was dredged, the element immersed and afterwards joined with the previously installed element; The bulkheads between the elements being removed to complete the operation.

2011/08/08 By Susanne Kalmar Pedersen

How is the Fehmarn tunnel constructed underwater?

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In 2014 the construction of the Fehmarn tunnel will commence. This post will describe how a tunnel, consisting of 79 standard elements and 10 special elements, will be immersed and assembled under water.

2011/07/21 By Susanne Kalmar Pedersen

Immersed Tube Tunnel

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Immersed tube tunnelling is an efficient engineering solution for the Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link. An immersed tunnel is an underwater tunnel composed of segments, constructed elsewhere and then floated to the tunnel alignment to be sunk into place and then linked together.  

2011/06/08 By Susanne Kalmar Pedersen

New Project Manager on the Fehmarn Project

I apologize for the blog being a bit quiet during the last month, but things have been rather hectic as the project is entering a new phase. The 1st of June Wim Janssen (project manager from TEC in Holland) retired and Klavs Munch Koefoed (Rambøll) replaced him.

2011/05/05 By Susanne Kalmar Pedersen

Safety in the Fehmarnbelt tunnel

The overall risk objective of the Fehmarnbelt tunnel is that it must be at least as safe to drive through the tunnel as it is driving on a highway in an open countryside. The tunnel has therefore been designed and has been given the status of an ordinary highway.

2011/04/15 By Susanne Kalmar Pedersen

Tunnel anxiety

You might never have heard of it, but some people (very few – 1-3% of the population) suffer from “tunnel phobia”. Tunnel anxiety/”tunnel phobia” is a broad popular term for a feeling that varies from real phobia

2011/04/06 By Susanne Kalmar Pedersen

The new landscape on Lolland

The landscape around the Fehmarn belt fixed link will, together with the immersed tunnel portal, make changes to the local area.