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Tunnels
and bridges

Boskalis designs, develops and constructs bridges and tunnels, providing solutions covering the entire process. For bridge construction over a river or estuary we first level the riverbed, install the bridge pillars or piers, and provide scour protection. Bridge parts can be installed by tandem lift. Underwater tunnel construction involves dredging the tunnel trench before laying the tunnel foundations. We also excavate construction sites for immersible tunnel elements that are then towed out and installed before backfilling the tunnel trench.

Top grade tunnel and bridge solutions

Designing, developing and constructing bridges and tunnels is technically complex and economically challenging. Boskalis provides design and environmental expertise. We employ innovative surveying and installation techniques and specialist materials.

We minimize risks and uncertainties to deliver the solutions you need.

Our track record speaks for itself. Over the past few decades, we have been involved in a large number of tunnel and bridge projects, including the Øresund immersed tunnel connecting Denmark with Sweden, and the Stralsund bridge in Germany.

Our tunnels and bridges solutions

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Leveling the riverbed

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Placing scour protection

Protecting the pile.

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Installation and ballasting pillar

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Installation of bridge parts by tandem lift

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Dredging the tunnel trench

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Laying the tunnel foundation

Laying the gravel or sand-flow foundation using the screeding technique.

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Locking fill, trench backfill and rock protection.

Placing the tunnel roof scour and anchor protection.

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Construction of building dock and water management

Immersable tunnel elements.

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Towing out and installation

Immersable tunnel elements.

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Our projects

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Port development, Gothenburg

Gothenburg turns around some 34 million tons of cargo annually, including 700,000 TEU (containers), and is unique in the region. With regard to the variety and frequency of calls from intercontinental liner trade the port is outstanding in Sweden. The port can be reached from the sea via two different channels: Torshamnen Fairway and Böttö Fairway. From a navigational point of view both channels needed to be deepened and widened at a number of places. Thus there were two good reasons to enhance the fairways: securing the port’s future as the premier port for liner trade and creating safer navigation. This resulted into a major dredging contract which was awarded in June 2002 to Boskalis Westminster Dredging Company.

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Remediation, Urk harbor area

Many port areas requiring dredging works have been forced to put projects on hold due to the absence of an environmentally safe solution for the disposal or processing of contaminated sediments. While this is a global problem, the availability of central, large-scale repositories in the Netherlands has transformed disposal economics at the national level. Nevertheless, the high level of debris encountered during the dredging of ports and harbors remains a major challenge to all contractors. The hydraulic transport of sediments with a high debris content is impossible.

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Port construction, Pusan

The 4th largest container terminal in the world is located in the South East of the South Korean peninsula at Busan. As the old port is completely surrounded by the metro-city, expansion of the old port is restricted. To solve the chronic phenomenon of cargo congestion MOMAF (Ministry of Marine and Fisheries) decided in 1997 to construct a new port situated 20 km west of Busan with a final total handling capacity of 4.6 million TEU and total expenses of 4.2 billion USD.

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Tunnel construction Warnow, Rostock

The Warnow Tunnel is located in Rostock, Germany, at the old mouth of the river Warnow in the Baltic Sea. In the DDR period this area grew out to be the main harbor of East-Germany. After the 'turn' (die Wende) in 1989 the port more or less died. Goods came cheaper and quicker from Rotterdam, Bremen and Hamburg by rail.

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Fixed Link between Rosario and Victoria

The Joint Venture Boskalis International - Ballast Nedam JV was a subcontractor to the Consorcio Impregilo, Hochtief, Roggio and Techint which was awarded the construction of the fixed link between Rosario, in the province of Santa Fe and Victoria, in the province of Entre Rios. The Client in this project was the Argentine Government, and the leader of the Consorcio was Impregilo. The Consorciol executed all the civil constructions such as bridges while the JV Boskalis International – Ballast Nedam (BKI/BND) constructed, using sand only, the road embankments, connecting the several bridges.

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Cleanup, Westergasfabriek

The Westergasfabriek was built by the British firm Imperial Continental Gas Association (ICGA) in 1883, and was at the time the biggest coal-fired gas factory in Amsterdam. The project site, covering four hectares, housed coal storage yards, gasometers, purification plants, a water tower and office buildings, all designed by the famous Dutch architect Isaac Gosschalk. The municipal energy company used the site for storage into the early 1990s.

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Dredging & Inland Infra

Offshore Energy

Salvage

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More infra solutions

Land reclamation

Boskalis reclaimes land, improves soil, protects shorelines and realizes coastal contruction projects.

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Coastal protection

Boskalis constructs traditional hard sea defenses and innovative soft sea defenses.

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Environmental services

Boskalis provides a broad range of environmental services including remediation of contaminated land and dredged sediment.

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Roads and railways

Boskalis develops, supervises and realizes multidisciplinary road and railway projects.

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Inland ports and waterways

Boskalis designs, builds and maintains inland ports and waterways.

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