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Fresh Concrete Composite System Used in Cut-and-Cover Construction at Depths Greater Than 40 Metres

Construction on Germany‘s deepest S-Bahn station has been underway at Marienhof in Munich‘s city center since January 2019. As part of the urgently needed expansion of the S-Bahn network, a 41 m deep station is being built there as part of the 2nd Munich S-Bahn Main Line project (Fig.1). To protect the concrete structure from groundwater, the building will be constructed with floor slabs and walls made of water impermeable concrete (“Weiße Wanne”) and additionally sealed with the pressurized water-tight, leak-proof, and crack-bridging fresh concrete composite system from Sika Deutschland CH AG...

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