Tunnel fans for E18 Expressway in Finland

26-08-2008:

Novenco has now finished delivering 108 tunnels fans type ARR 1000 to the new E18 Expressway in Finland that combines the city of Murrla to Lohja.

Novenco succeeded in getting this order because of good references in most parts of Europe and because we had recently delivered (2007) 80 tunnels fans type ARR 1000 to Finland’s longest road tunnel which links the Outer Ring Road III with the purpose-built Vuosaari Harbour in eastern end of Helsinki.

The E18 Muurla–Lohja project includes the construction of a new 51.3 km section of motorway, seven motorway tunnels with a combined length of 5.2 km, 75 bridges (longest 240 m) and eight interchanges.

The E18 as a whole is one of the key elements of the Nordic Triangle, which is the transport infrastructure system (road and rail) that links the Nordic capitals to each other and also Russia and central Europe.

In June 2007 the construction of the Muurla–Lohja section of the E18 motorway had come to the surfacing stage. The surfacing work is scheduled to be finished by the first quarter of 2008. At the same time work is progressing on all of the 75 bridges along the route and six are already open to traffic.

Road tunnels will actually account for around 10% of the total length of the motorway (just over 5 km). When The Karnainen tunnel is completed (in mid-2008) it will be the longest road tunnel in Finland.

Surfacing work is underway and the Expressway project is progressing on schedule. The route of this section of the E18 is crucial to the integration of Finland with the rest of the European road network.

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