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Rotterdamsebaan: Tunnel Driving and Cross Passages

<div class="bildtext">1 Intersection A4, A13, ramp structure with launching shaft in the background </div> Credit/Quelle: Peter van Oosterhout/Gemeente Den Haag
1 Intersection A4, A13, ramp structure with launching shaft in the background
Credit/Quelle: Peter van Oosterhout/Gemeente Den Haag
<div class="bildtext">2 Geotechnical longitudinal section of the Rotterdamsebaan and selected reinforcement areas</div> Credit/Quelle: Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau AG
2 Geotechnical longitudinal section of the Rotterdamsebaan and selected reinforcement areas
Credit/Quelle: Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau AG
<div class="bildtext">3 3D finite element model of Rotterdamsebaan</div> Credit/Quelle: Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau AG
3 3D finite element model of Rotterdamsebaan
Credit/Quelle: Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau AG
<div class="bildtext">4 Ballasting as an additional measure before tunnelling under the Binckhorsthaven</div> Credit/Quelle: Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau AG
4 Ballasting as an additional measure before tunnelling under the Binckhorsthaven
Credit/Quelle: Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau AG
<div class="bildtext"><irspacing style="letter-spacing: -0.01em;">5</irspacing><irspacing style="letter-spacing: -0.01em;"> Overview of surface settlement surveying programme</irspacing></div> Credit/Quelle: Gemeente Den Haag/Wayss & Freytag
5 Overview of surface settlement surveying programme
Credit/Quelle: Gemeente Den Haag/Wayss & Freytag
<div class="bildtext">6 Completely electrically powered tunnel vehicle from Mühlhäuser</div> Credit/Quelle: Frank Jansen/Gemeente Den Haag
6 Completely electrically powered tunnel vehicle from Mühlhäuser
Credit/Quelle: Frank Jansen/Gemeente Den Haag
<div class="bildtext">7 Transport of the cutting wheel back to the launching shaft by water</div> Credit/Quelle: DPI/Gemeente Den Haag
7 Transport of the cutting wheel back to the launching shaft by water
Credit/Quelle: DPI/Gemeente Den Haag
<div class="bildtext">8 Breakthrough ceremony for the second bore of the Rotterdamsebaan</div> Credit/Quelle: Jurriaan Brobbel / Gemeente Den Haag
8 Breakthrough ceremony for the second bore of the Rotterdamsebaan
Credit/Quelle: Jurriaan Brobbel / Gemeente Den Haag
<div class="bildtext">9 FEM model of the tunnel bores and cross passages including frozen body (soil model not displayed)</div> Credit/Quelle: Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau AG
9 FEM model of the tunnel bores and cross passages including frozen body (soil model not displayed)
Credit/Quelle: Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau AG
<div class="bildtext">10 Excavation of a cross passage</div> Credit/Quelle: Jurriaan Brobbel/Gemeente Den Haag
10 Excavation of a cross passage
Credit/Quelle: Jurriaan Brobbel/Gemeente Den Haag

The second article about the Rotterdamsebaan project in The Hague continues from the publication in tunnel 1/2018 „The Rotterdamsebaan Project in The Hague“ and provides an overview of the further progress of the works, particularly the tunnelling works and the works on the cross passages.

Introduction

The € 272 million Rotterdamsebaan is currently under construction between the Ypenburg intersection and the Centrumring in the Dutch city The Hague. It is being built under a Design & Build contract and is due to be put into operation on 1 July 2020. In addition to two ramp structures and a 650 m long sunken road section passing beneath the motorway A4, an exit and the connecting curve from the A4 to the A13, two inner-city tunnels with segment linings, each 1.65 km long, also had to be built.

Short Overview of Bored Tunnel and

Cross Passages

As described in the introduction, from...

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