Client
Vegegardin, Iceland
Contractor
Joint-Venture ÓSAFL (Company: IPC, Iceland + Marti Contractors Ltd., Switzerland)
Construction period
August 2008 – August 2009
Objects description:
- tunnel is a part of the road Óshlið No. 61 between the villages Bolungarvík and Ísafjörður in district Westfjarðar
Construction technology:
Excavation works were carried out by using drilling and blasting works, by NMT (Norwegian Tunnelling Method).
Executed works:
- driving of the tunnel tube, profile 54 m2, length 5 156 m
- primary support of tunnel by wire meshes, steel fibre reinforced shotcrete and SN bolts