Strabag Consortium Builds € 300 Mln Eisack River Undercrossing for Brenner Base Tunnel

IndustrialsConstruction ♦ Published: October 24, 2014; 13:30 ♦ (Vindobona)

The construction group Strabag, in a consortium with the Italian construction companies Salini Impregilo, Consorzio Cooperative Costruzioni CCC and Collini Lavori, signed the € 300 million contract to build the Eisack Undercrossing section of the Brenner Base Tunnel.

Strabag Consortium Builds € 300 Mln Eisack River Undercrossing for Brenner Base Tunnel / Picture: © Wikipedia / Terrasque

Strabag holds a 39 % share in the consortium. Work is scheduled to begin this year with a planned construction time of around eight years.

The contract section is located at the southern end of the Brenner Base Tunnel near the town of Franzensfeste (Fortezza) in the Province of Bozen (Bolzano) in South Tyrol. The work comprises the construction of the two main tubes of the…