Press Releases 2004

July 19, 2004
Contract in Austria for €340 million: Bilfinger Berger playing important role in building Wienerwald railroad tunnel near Vienna

Bilfinger Berger is playing an important role in one of the biggest infrastructure projects now underway in Europe. Together with an Austrian partner, the company has received the contract to build the 13-kilometer-long Wienerwald railroad tunnel, part of the new Vienna-Salzburg high-speed rail line. The tunnel, near Vienna, will consist of two separate 10.7-meter-diameter tubes, most of which will be excavated with two giant tunnel boring machines and connected by 26 crosscuts. A 2.3-kilometer-long stretch of each tube will be built using conventional tunnel-building techniques. The project has a total value of €340 million.

As one of the world's leading tunnel builders, Bilfinger Berger is currently involved in a number of important tunneling projects. The company is heading the consortium building the technically demanding north-south subway line in Cologne, which has a total value of €390 million, and is working with partners from Switzerland and Italy to construct the central section of the Gotthard base tunnel in Switzerland, a project worth €740 million. In Sydney, meanwhile, a consortium headed by Bilfinger Berger is privately financing and building the new €520 million Cross City Tunnel, and will be in charge of operating this Build-Operate-Transfer project after its scheduled opening in mid-2005. The successful completion of turnkey subway lines in Bangkok and Taipei, along with the more than nine kilometers of tunnels built by the company for Taiwan's new high-speed rail project, also testify to Bilfinger Berger's tunnel-building expertise.