“Soon, high-speed trains will rush across this valley in just seven seconds. When we have completed the 500-meter bridge, it will be a pioneering piece of engineering,” explains Manfred May, Construction Manager at Max Bögl Group, while looking across the Filstal valley to the Steinbühl tunnel. He is standing 85 meters above the ground, on the third section of the Filstalbrücke, a bridge which is under construction. Seven further sections of the bridge still have to be built before the reinforced-concrete structure touches the other side – and then a second supporting structure will follow. “The Filstalbrücke consists of two single track bridges, running in parallel across the valley and are 30 meters apart of one another. This separation is determined by the tunnels,” the Construction Manager explains. He goes on to clarify what makes this section of the Stuttgart-Ulm rail project so unique: “The forces that act on the bridge with its delicate, Y-shaped pillars due the high-speed rail traffic, the route running from tunnel to tunnel, with tunnel entrances which are supported by the bridge, and, last but not least, the height – all of these things present daily challenges.” The bridge across the Filstal valley is the third-tallest rail bridge in Germany at close to 85 meters high. In order to complete the demanding construction project, the bridge-building specialists from the company group “Max Bögl and Porr” have joined forces to create the Arge EÜ Filstal working group. Manfred May talks about the special technology used on-site: “We work with a movable scaffolding construction which wraps the current section of the build from above. When concreting is complete, the steel construction is released at the bottom and moved forward. In this way the bridge extends out and across the valley.”
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