Subway line U3 – Construction phase U3/4 – Station "Rochusgasse"

Project Description

Project description:
Subway line U3:  km 8.985 – km 9.540
Segment length: 555 m
Total track length: 1,299 m
Essential features:
Single, respectively double-shell tunnel before and past the Rochusgasse station with cut-and-cover method
Rochusgasse station partly with cut and cover method and partly under the office building of Generali Insurance company (buttressing to transmit the load of the building to the subway structure). Partly closed coverage construction under existing buildings (securing the drift by means of horizontal jet-grouting piles)
Central platform with station buildings on both ends of the station
Planning of an underground garage in front of the station on an empty floor of the subway building

Client: Wiener Linien GesmbH & Co KG
Contact person: OBR Dipl. Ing. Schöft, Head of Department
B67 –Bautechnische Angelegenheiten der U-Bahn (Subway Construction/Engineering)
Phone:  +43 1 7909-67000
Project: Subway line U3, building section 4, Station Rochusgasse
Project area: Vienna
Net costs: Approx. €100 mill.
Planning period: 1983 to 1991
Construction period: May 1984 to February 1991

Scope of works:
Traffic planning

Submission planning
Planning of construction phases
Planning the relocation of built-in facilities
Tender planning
Detailed planning

Structural/construction  engineering

Structural pre-design
Construction design as part of the submission planning, calculation of quantities and tender specifications
Execution planning: detailed structural planning, formwork and reinforcement plans, steel construction plans, detailed design

Architectural design: U-Bahn group of architects.