The Itz Viaduct

  • The Itz Viaduct
    Itz Viaduct next to motorway A71
  • The Itz Viaduct
    Itz Viaduct - construction progress
  • The Itz Viaduct
    Itz Viaduct
  • The Itz Viaduct
    Itz Viaduct - construction progress

The new line runs east of Coburg in this section. The town is linked to the new line by two connecting curves at Niederfühlbach and Dörfles-Esbach. A bridge 868 metres long with a maximum height of 30 metres takes the line across the Itz Valley between Dörfles-Esbach and Rödental.

 

Facts and figures:

  • Total length: 868 m
  • Duration of the project: 2002 – 2005
  • Total project volume: ca. 18 Millionen Euro
  • Span length: 58 m
  • Structure type: reinforced concrete structure with a steel framework (trussed girders)

 

Contact

Alexander Strutzke
Alexander Strutzke
Dipl.-Geogr.
Dipl.-Betriebswirt (FH)
Sales and Marketing Manager
phone: +49 (931) 35503-550

Successful project collaboration with EPLASS:

Since EPLASS is already being successfully used for all the single projects of the German Unity Project No.8, it will also be used for the project organization of this subproject.

To facilitate the complex construction management in a central system, the project participants decided to work with the internet based project collaboration platform EPLASS. All processes are easily accessible for all project participants at any time and any place. Everything from the correspondence, to the construction reports, structural analysis, check reports and claims are organized, reviewed and archived within EPLASS. The project participants consists of the above named joint venture, the German Railway (DB AG), external designers, checking engineers, geotechnical engineers and the building inspection. The federal railway authority is also involved in this project.