InternalOn this page, you can follow the positions of our tunnel boring machines. The update takes place regularly on Monday morning.
(NB: The lines show the tunnel route with an accuracy of a few meters.)
| Drag the map or zoom in and zoom out respectively by clicking the buttons labelled "+" and "-". | ||
| Total length of completed tunnels | 84.4 %4873 m of 5777 m |  |
Tunnel boring machine 1 (TULA = TUnnel for LAser) |
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| Activity | After finishing the two tunnel sections between Schenefeld and Osdorfer Born (XTD1 and XTD2) at the end of December 2010, TULA started boring the main tunnel (XTL) in January 2011. This more than 2-kilometer-long tunnel between Osdorfer Born and DESY-Bahrenfeld is located under inhabited area. Its boring was completed on 6 August 2011. | |
| Length of completed tunnels | 100.0 % 3084 m of 3084 m | |
| – in current section (XTL) | 100.0 %2010 m of 2010 m | |
| Start date | 07 July 2010 | |
Tunnel boring machine 2 (AMELI) |
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| Activity | AMELI is the German acronym for "At the end (there will be) light". It is the smaller of the two tunnel boring machines and drills the "fan" of altogether eight single tunnels underneath the future Schenefeld research campus. The construction of these tunnel sections will be finished in summer 2012.—AMELI is currently construting tunnel section XTD3. The tunnel sections XTD9, XTD10, XTD4, XTD8, XTD7, and XTD5 are already completed. | |
| Length of completed tunnels | 66.5 %1789 m of 2693 m | |
| – in current section (XTD3) | 9.0 %23 m of 267 m | |
| Start date | 11 January 2011 | |
