BLS Alptransit

Project description:

• New base tunnel through the Alps on the main axis
  Basel – Bern – Simplon for 250 km/h trains.

Customer challenges:

• Deliver a global solution and turnkey project for power, signalling and telecom cabling, including supply, laying and splicing.

Nexans solutions:

• Responsible for all cable network supplies and installation in parallel with the railway track and catenary build-up.
• 63 km of 132 kV high voltage cable lines.
• 512 km of medium voltage cable networks.
• 692 km of cables for 5 fiber optic networks.
• All telecom and power components.
• Turnkey project within a general contracting team of companies including Implenia, Rhomberg, Alstom, Siemens and Alcatel.
• Whole planning and engineering works of the cable networks.