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Spanish
prime minister
visits
London’s
Crossrail project
,
on which
FCC
is working
ALPlNE
to Build the
A6 Autobahn’s New Bridge
in Kaiserslautern, Germany
LBM, the national mobility company for the
region of Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, has
chosen the consortium partnering ALPINE
with the German firm Plauen Stahl Techno-
logie GmbH to demolish and then rebuild
the bridge over the Lauterbach Valley, bet-
ween the Kaiserslautern-West junction and
the Kaiserslautern motorway intersection,
in Germany.
Worth 32 million Euros, this is the second
contract awarded to the consortium of AL-
PINE and its German partner in the region
Baldomero Falcones, chairman and CEO of
FCC, accompanied Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s
prime minister, on his visit in London to the
Crossrail underground railway project, a
section of which is being built by FCC.
FCC is participating in this project via its
subsidiary ALPINE. The contract, worth
250 million pounds (300 million euro), in-
cludes construction of the Whitechapel and
Liverpool Street accesses and stations.
Crossrail is the largest infrastructure project
currently underway in Europe. The com-
muter railway will span 119 kilometres and
connect 37 stations, from Maidenhead and
Heathrow Airport in the west, to Shenfield
and Abbey Wood in the east.
Crossrail will be able to carry 1.5 million
people into London’s central business dis-
tricts in at most 45 minutes and will increa-
se the capacity of the city’s railway system
by 10%.
who are currently busy at work building the
Waschmühltal bridge for the same auto-
bahn, just 500 metres away.
During the work to widen the A6 autobahn
to six lanes between the Kaiserslautern-
West junction and the Kaiserslautern mo-
torway intersection, the old bridge in the
Lauterbach Valley will be demolished, and
in its place a new bridge will be built with
separate metal structural sections for
each carriageway. The 275-metre-long
sections will cross the valley at maximum
height of 25 metres above ground level.
Crossrail is the most significant tunnel-
building project in the United Kingdom
since the enlargement of the Jubilee un-
derground lines and the Channel Tunnel
Rail Link