ViaCon helps ski resort with ESG-friendly rapid construction tunnel solutions in ski resort area
The Challenge
Building ESG-friendly infrastructure focuses a lot on the environment and ecological conditions in which projects are built, but that’s not the only concern of ESG. For Idre Fjäll ski resort in Sweden, both the environmental and social aspects of a planned tunnel project took precedence.
The popularity of the resort, which has won multiple best ski resort awards, led to a need to accommodate an increasing number of visitors while continuing to provide the best facilities possible. Resort expansion aimed to make the resort greener but also to create and upgrade the infrastructure for the “social” aspect of ESG: enhancing recreational and health-related opportunities with a new gondola lift, more slopes, better lighting arrangements, a snow system and three tunnels.
Stakeholders
Investor: Idre Fjäll
Designer: Mavacon AB (road design) and ViaCon AB (bridge design)
Contractor: Siljan Schakt Entreprenad AB
Assembly/installation: ViaCon AB
Specifications
Bottom length: 85.4 m
Number of bolts: 14600
Total weight: 115 tonnes
Number of plates: 702
Inside surface area: 2306 sqm
Installation: 23 days
Tunnel 2: VM30; bridge mode NR1
Bottom length: 56.5 m
Number of bolts: 11800
Total weight: 93 tonnes
Number of plates: 562
Inside surface area: 1874 sqm
Installation: 17 days
Tunnel 3: 75S; bridge mode 2 söder
Bottom length: 78 m
Number of bolts: 16928
Total weight: 165 tonnes
Number of plates: 757
Inside surface area: 3278 sqm
Installation: 28 days
The Solution
Tunnel design moved away from concrete and focused on construction solutions that could be built quickly (within two months) and without disruption to activity in the area.
The ViaCon Advantage
ViaCon helped the Idre Fjäll expansion project reach:
ViaCon Sweden offers end-to-end consultation with customers to help them overcome construction challenges and meet environmental and sustainability goals – faster.
