Its role involves the design, installation and commissioning of rail infrastructure equipment for the tunnel as well as the equipping the two 57km single track tunnels and the open north and south sections that connect to the existing rail network.
The Gotthard Base tunnel will link Austria and Italy.
Work on the track, the overhead line system and elements of the supply system is being carried out in joint venture by Balfour Beatty Rail and various other partners (Alpiq InTec, Alcatel-Lucent Schweiz, Thales Rail Signalling Solutions and Alpine Bau). The Transtec Gotthard Team works for main contractor Alp Transit Gotthard, which is responsible for the overall task of building the Gotthard Base Link between Zurich and Lugano.
The Transtec Gotthard team took two years at the design stage to plan its methodology and integration utilising a 250-metre test track. Complete semi-permanent bases have been set up some 5km outside the northern Erstfeld portal and in Biasca in the south, again about 5km from the Bodio portal. Computerised logistic controls are installed, workshops, aggregate and cement stores and loading bays.
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