Melbourne Metro Tunnel Project
Melbourne Metro Tunnel Project
PROJECT STORY
The challenge
Melbourne is growing, and the City Loop is reaching capacity. The city needs a new way of moving around and allow more trains in and out of the city.
The solution
Providing knowledge from multidisciplinary project team in delivering detailed design to support the construct the Metro tunnels and five new underground stations.
The impact
The increased capacity will enable more than a half a million additional passengers per week across Melbourne’s train network to use the rail system during the peak periods.
9km
Twin Tunnels
5
New underground Stations
The challenge
Melbourne is growing, but more trains cannot run in and out of the city because the City Loop is nearing capacity. To maintain a high quality of life in Australia’s fastest growing city, Melbournians needed a new way of moving around their city.
The solution
Arcadis is working with consortium CYP Design and Construction (CYP D&C) (led by Lendlease, John Holland and Bouygues) delivering the Tunnels and Stations package of the $11b Metro Tunnel Project, Victoria’s biggest ever public transport infrastructure project.
Together in a joint venture with Arup and WSP, Arcadis is delivering the detailed design to support CYP D&C to design and construct the Metro Tunnel’s twin nine-kilometre rail tunnels and five new underground stations.
This includes technical elements of civil engineering, structures, mechanical and electrical, rail infrastructure, fire and life safety engineering, security and blast assessment, pedestrian modelling, vertical transportation, specialist lighting, sustainability and digital solutions as well as noise, vibration and acoustics.
The impact
The Metro Tunnel will create a new end-to-end rail line from Sunbury in Melbourne’s west to Cranbourne/Pakenham in the south-east, with high capacity trains and five new underground stations. It will create capacity on the network to enable more than a half a million additional passengers per week across Melbourne’s train network to use the rail system during the peak periods.
The stations will also set a new benchmark in design, delivering five new architectural landmarks for Melbourne.
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