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Maurice Lemaire Tunnel

Renovation of the existing structure and digging a safety tunnel

Underground Works

France, 2004 - 2007

General description

months of work

MAIN CHARACTERISTICS

Construction, parallel to the existing tunnel, of a safety tunnel to evacuate users and provide ventilation, decommissioning of ventilation chambers in the existing tunnel, construction of ducts and connecting lines between the existing tunnel and safety tunnel, decommissioning of the 1,373 concrete ventilation chambers (width 7m, length 5m, weight 20 T), decontamination in the specific washing line, on-site crushing/grinding and recycling of materials.

Consortium

BOUYGUES TRAVAUX PUBLICS 50% / EIFFAGE CONSTRUCTION 50%

Project owner

SOCIETE DES AUTOROUTES PARIS-RHIN-RHÔNE

Key figures

6,800m

of tunnels

1

hard rock TBM (tunneling machine)

37

months of work

Locations

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