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Fri October 25 2024

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Strabag wins additional work on Stockholm tunnel

23 Nov 17 Strabag has been appointed to build a further tunnelled section of the Stockholm ring road.

The group is currently already working on another section the scheme through its subsidiary Züblin Scandinavia.

The new €45m (£40m) contract for the Swedish Transport Administration includes the construction of two parallel tunnel bores with a total length of 2.5km. Strabag will use conventional drilling and blasting to build the tunnel. Injection systems will be used to further stabilise the rock. Õ¥Ö­¼§ is to begin in January 2018 and is scheduled for completion in June 2021.

The Akalla Motorway Tunnel is part of the Stockholm Bypass, a motorway ring around the Swedish capital and currently the largest road construction and tunnelling project in the country. The Stockholm Bypass is being built in the north-western part of the city as a 21km, six-lane motorway ring road with the designation E4. The entire approximaely €3.1bn project is due to be completed in 2025.

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