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Innsbruck – The completion or commissioning of the Brenner Base Tunnel (BBT) is expected to be delayed by one year. It is currently "more likely" a finalization in 2028, said the Board of the Brennerbasistunnel Society (BBT SE), Konrad Bergmeister, in an interview with the APA . As for total costs, Bergmeister was convinced to make a "precision landing" at 9.3 billion euros.
Legal proceedings Guilty of delays
The likely delay of one year lies mainly in the reduction of the surcharge for the lot "Pfons-Brenner", the largest on the Austrian territory, according to South Tyrol . "We have lost eleven months, we will strive and do our utmost to finish in 2027. But it will be very difficult to catch up with the construction," said the BBT brain, including the cause "Pfons-Brenner" has a late start. A year and a half – and this is solely due to court proceedings and delayed the award, the manager stressed and added: "We build since April 30, 2008. The purely technical delays have made three months. "
The bid for the lot had been conducted by two bidding groups, including the construction company Strabag, by declaratory claims.A hearing before the Federal Administrative Court has already taken place." We await a decision in July, "said Bergmeister, who has served as BBT's board of directors since 2006. He hopes that the Federal Administrative Court will decide that the contract will be awarded to the winning consortium of Porr Bau GmbH, G.Hinteregger & Söhne Baugesellschaft mbH, Società Italiana by Condotte of Acqua SpA and Itinera SpA persists Then you could start the construction work despite a possible call in September.If, on the other hand, the contract is canceled, a new auction is necessary. "In this case, a delay of at least one year would be the result. This means that the Brenner base tunnel will be ready in 2029, "said Bergmeister, who is optimistic about the court's decision
Bergmeister: no cost overruns
Bergmeister has vigorously repressed critics from the Court's latest report, European Court of Auditors, which refers to mbadive cost overruns. "There is no cost overrun. We have kept the costs for the last twelve years, they have remained constant. And we will be able to keep them up to date in the next ten years, "he said and started from a" precision landing. "The draft, created in 2002 was estimated at 4.5 billion euros, making Bergmeister a turning point in the history of BBT.But it was only pure tunneling and construction included – but not on the connections to stations and the necessary expansion in the same.In the years 2005 to 2008, the so-called draft bid and EIA had been created, as of July 1, 2006, costs to about 6.5 billion euros. , according to Bergmeister
And these costs are then in the following years always remained constant, because: "then the UVP editions were saved in terms of costs and added, nothing else." So, we had arrived January 1, 2017 to 8.3 billion euros. "The difference between the 6.5 billion euros and the 8.3 billion euros "There is nothing but inflation," said BBT 's board of directors. And taking into account the value adjustment or Vorausvalorisierung of 2.5 percent per year for the next ten years, you will end up with a total cost of 9.3 billion euros, said Bergmeister , which added that in the BBT SE with a "developed Risk Management" operate.
Total distance traveled in 2040
The total distance between Munich and Verona will be completed in 2040, according to Konrad Bergmeister, a member of BBT's board of directors. He considers that this time horizon is "realistic," said Bergmeister in the interview APA . For the next EU funding period from 2020, the Council did not expect reductions from the outset, but progress on the supply routes as a condition of l & # 39; EU.
"I am convinced that it will be much more difficult if there is no progress on the supply lines," Bergmeister said. Europe will ensure that access roads are built quickly, otherwise there will be no functional TEN network. There are verbal commitments that the Brenner Base Tunnel remains a priority project after 2020, but "we must do our homework". He suspects that the bidding competition will contain the following for the next period, according to Bergmeister: EU co-financing for access routes and increased additional funding up to To 30 percent in Europe. At the same time, however, the EU will clarify, according to Bergmeister, the non-completion of homework or delinquency in the ways of access: "Then the money is gone."
Bergmann saw the layers of access less dark than the European Court of Auditors in his report. The northern access road is "slow, but ahead" – in particular because the "reality of construction" in the base tunnel will be more and more visible in Germany and the pressure will increase. According to Bergmeister, the "most important access route" of the Brenner base tunnel, that of Franzensfeste to Waidbruck in South Tyrol, will be completed more quickly than the total distance – together with the base tunnel of Brenner in 2027 or 2028. approved. And the project is already in the final phase of the approval of the EIA, "said the boss of BBT with confidence.With the Brennerbasist tunnel of 64 kilometers and the 21 kilometers of Franzensfeste in Waidbruck, the Unterinntaltrbade of 42 kilometers will have no later than 2028 "more than 120 kilometers of connection."
This was crucial for the realization of the entire route.Develop a "first partial effect" and occur a first pbad from Bergmeister to rail, and operational terminals would be indispensable – both in the south of Verona and Trento and in Munich, if it were to be operated in the Bavarian capital and freight trains meet always a "bottleneck" because of the lack of access roads, "pressure from below" would come into being.
"Important conditions for the solution of the transit problem"
Bergmeister does not did not consider the Brenner base tunnel as the only possible solution to the transit problem but: "It is an important condition for the solution of problems of transit and transit problems of mobility". Logistics chains also need to be developed – this would include functional terminals and a functional rail. "And it takes a policy of honesty, external costs," Bergmeister demanded. Tolls must be paid on all railway lines, but not on highways, said the BBT board of directors and denounced "the unfairness of toll revenues". It needs a homogeneous tariff system, that is to say a balance between the road and the rail. Such a "type of toll" is urgently needed not only on the Munich-Verona route, but also on the second north-south corridor that connects Germany via Switzerland to Switzerland. Italy. If the "triad" of feeder roads, functional rail infrastructure and the tariff equilibrium between road and rail were given, the Brenner base tunnel would also be economically viable, Bergmeister was certain.
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