Construction company delivers up to 453 kilometers of road surface, the order volume is around 280 million euros.
The Austrian construction group Porr is building the infrastructure of the British line for high-speed trains HS2. Between January 2021 and April 2029, the company will deliver 453 kilometers of ballastless track with an order value of 260 million pounds (282 million euros), as Porr announced on Monday. The client is High Speed Two (HS2) Ltd.
improvement
Specifically, the domestic construction company is supplying the major railway project with the Slab Track Austria technology, which is already widely used internationally, which it developed together with the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) and first implemented in 1989. The new British rail line will connect the cities of London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds and improve the connection of eight of the ten largest cities in Great Britain.
Austria's largest construction company Strabag is already involved in the construction of the high-speed line as part of a three-party consortium, the order volume of which is at least £ 3.3 billion. Strabag accounts for 32 percent of this. The three-party joint venture was commissioned with the planning, calculation and work preparation in the summer of 2017.
Fast pace
After commissioning, the H2S will serve over 25 train stations and connect around 30 million people with each other. The trains can travel the high-speed line at an operating speed of up to 360 km / h.
According to Porr, the line between London and Birmingham will be built in phase 1. In phase 2a the line will be extended to Crewe and continued in phase 2b to Manchester in the west and to Leeds in the east.
Often in use
In addition to Austria (Koralmbahn), Porr technology is reportedly already in use internationally in Germany (including Stuttgart 21), Great Britain (Barking Riverside), Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Australia (Melbourne Metro Tunnel) and Qatar .
“With our technology, we enable almost maintenance-free rail operation at top speeds,” says Porr boss Karl-Heinz Strauss.
