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PDB 80

Construction Project
New Railway Construction Ebensfeld-Erfurt - Overpass Schobsetalbridge
Location
  • Gehren (Thuringen)
Client
  • DB Netz AG
Planning
  • ILF Consulting Engineers and OBERMEYER Planen + Beraten GmbH, Munich
Investment volume
  • approx. EUR 6.0 million
Construction time
  • 10 months
Contracted services for BMG
  • Section 43.8 HOAI-General construction supervision
  • Construction management
  • Contract management
Structures constructed
  • Railway overpass (L = 87 m) executed as prestressed solid sheet
  • Circular columns arranged in pairs as bridge pylons (D = 1.50 m)
  • Cross-bars between the column heads (H = 1.50 m)
  • Raft foundation for pylons and abutment
Construction method
  • Superstructure field-by-field on falsework
Special features
  • Accompaniment of the construction project by an ecological construction supervision
  • Compensation of the unavoidable impact on nature with a detailed compensation concept
  • Noise barriers on the east side of the bridge
Utilization
  • Long-distance railway tunnel (design speed= 300 km/h)
Construction
  • Prestressed solid sheet
  • Structural system as four-field continuous girder
  • Grid distance between supports 20.00 m + 3 x 23.50 m + 20.00 m
  • Bridge width (W = 14.10 m)
  • Height of construction (H = 1.50 m)
  • Clear height (H = 2.425 m)
  • Maximum height above ground (H = 10.00 m)
Geology
  • Solid rock of the volcanic rock complex of the Rotliegende (red sediment)
  • The lower Rotliegende is made up of igneous rocks, tuffs, tuffites with sedimentary inclusions of clay, silt and sandstones as well as conglomerates
  • Rock covered with weathered slope rock, on which quaternary river gravel was deposited in the valleys