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Citytunnel Malmö, Sweden

Project data

Location: Malmö, Sweden

Railway tunnel with subterranean stations, station expansion and entrance area

Design: the tunnel section is being built using the cut-and-cover method; the semi-monolithic method in the trough construction procedure
Internal width: up to 21.00 m
Internal height: 7.20 m to 9.85 m

Requirements

  • maximum watertightness thanks to no construction joints in the area of the bottom plate
  • up to 1.10-m-thick tunnel top slab
  • 4.70-m-wide passageway for site traffic
  • vaulted sections in the external areas
  • 0.60 to 3.15-m-high beams in the centre of the tunnel

Customer

NCC Construction Sverige AB (Malmö C Nedre, E101)
ARGE MCG Malmö Citytunnel (Entrance Area E201);
Bilfinger Berger AG, Per Aarsleff A/S, E. Pihl & Son A.S.

Customer's benefit

A 10-day cycle thanks to economical combination consisting of special constructions and rentable system equipment.

Citytunnel Malmö Statement - Magnus Jakobsson, Site Manager E101
Magnus Jakobsson
Site Manager E101

The bottom plate, walls and slabs could be constructed in 10-day cycles with the PERI tunnel formwork.  PERI has always provided us with the best solution.

PERI solution

Combination consisting of project-specific formwork carriage constructions and rentable PERI system equipment: 2 formwork carriages for the casting segment in advance, two subsequent slab formwork carriages and a VARIO solution for the elliptical reinforced concrete columns along the tunnel centre. Additionally, two formwork carriages for the southern entrance area with two parallel tunnel constructions.