Salzburg/Berlin: ALPINE won the contract to provide the new rail connection to Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport (BBI) awarded by Deutsche Bahn (German Rail), providing important connections for regional and long-distance travel to the southern Berlin area. The 63.6-million-euro project, to be executed under a joint venture with the German GSB corporation, is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2011.
Having been expanded by more than two-thirds, BBI Airport now requires a new rail connection. ALPINE already started by connecting the Mahlow and Schönefeld suburbs. The contract includes the construction of six trough structures stretching over a total length of 2.5 kilometers and construction of three railroad and four road bridges. Some 330,000 cubic meters of earth will be moved, roughly 87,000 cubic meters of reinforced concrete and approx. 12,000 tons of reinforcing steel installed. “Parts of the construction pits with a depth of up to eleven meters will be especially challenging“, remarks Karsten Hell, ALPINE Germany’s CEO. “ALPINE will employ divers to place the underwater concrete base.“
The contract includes the installation of 33 kilometers of track and 23 switches for the high-speed railroad line and the regional and long-distance lines. ALPINE will also build the platform carcasses for the new train station at BBI Airport.
ALPINE will try to win contracts associated with the enlargement of the airport itself as well.