BBT SE

BBT SE-Vorstand Konrad Bergmeister mit Porr-Projektleiter Claus Melzer

04/30/2019

Brenner Base Tunnel - on the anniversary of the signing of the State Treaty, 100 km have been completed

Brenner Base Tunnel - 15 years ago, the State Treaty was signed, starting the planning and subsequently the works for...

04/16/2019

The TBM known as “Flavia” is on its way

Shortly after 1 PM, at the Mules construction site for the Brenner Base Tunnel, the first of the two large tunnel boring...

04/03/2019

First BBT Level II Post-Graduate Course - Università Federico II in Naples

BBT SE greatly appreciated, and enthusiastically participated in, the initiative of the Department of Civil, Building...

03/29/2019

Driving of the last stretch of the exploratory tunnel

Ground-breaking ceremony - for the last stretch of the exploratory tunnel at Wolf / Steinach

03/15/2019

BBT SE: handover of the construction area for the new Rio Riol roadway

Fortezza: Today, March 15th 2019, construction began on the new roadway between the SS12 state road and the future...

Status of the works of the Brenner Base Tunnel

The BBT tunnel system includes about 230 km of tunnels. 101 km have already been excavated.

Progress of the works

101 km

230 km

Railway tunnel 28 km

of 120 km

Exploratory tunnel 39 km

of 61 km

Other tunnels 34 km

of 49 km

kilometres

This is the length of the Brenner Base Tunnel and the Innsbruck bypass with which it links south of Aldrans. This will make it the longest underground railway connection in the world.

2027

The construction work and the railway outfitting of the Brenner Base Tunnel should be completed by 2027. After that, there will be a year of test operations. The tunnel will become fully operational in December of 2028.

250

km/h

Passenger trains will travel through the tunnel at a top speed of 250 km/h.

1.350

measuring stations

Water quality is monitored at 1,350 measuring stations all along the project area.

minutes

The trip from Innsbruck to Fortezza takes 80 minutes today. The trip through the BBT will take only 25 minutes.

All facts