Bilfinger Berger Magazine 1/2009

Bilfinger Berger has been awarded the contract to build large parts of the roughly six-kilometer long, multi-branch tunnel system for the XFEL X-ray laser in Hamburg. The overall project is valued at over € 200 million, of which Bilfinger Berger will account for 50 percent. Besides the tunnels, there are also shafts and underground research facilities to construct. The client is the German Electron Synchrotron research center (DESY).

The X-ray laser will enter operation in 2014. The objective is to use high-intensity X-ray pulses to analyze chemical reactions and decode the atomic structure of molecules.