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Underground design and construction Part of the Swiss based Amberg Group, Amberg Technologies/Amberg Engineering are one of the world’s leading engineering and technology companies in underground design and works
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or more than 50 years, we have been developing design and construction solutions in the fields of underground railway, road, and metro tunnels. Amberg specialize in innovative solutions for the subterranean space. In Britain Amberg have been a strong partner for local contractors, building and maintaining tunnel and railway infrastructure for more than 30 years. Multiple landmark projects have been realised in the UK with the technology and engineering of Amberg Switzerland. Crossrail London The contractors carried out tunnel survey and construction utilising the Amberg Tunnel application and the Amberg Navigator, an intuitive tunnel construction and verification method. In the following stages, Amberg Rail provided the technology and the equipment What are the benefits for the contractor? • Cost-effective solutions allowed the delivery of the track above the highly set specifications. • Cost savings on equipment and crew. • Timely delivery of the tracks in the tunnels. • Minimal training of the track builders due to the unified Amberg Rail field application even when using altering applications. • Strong local support by SCCS.
to lay the slab track in the new tubes. Additionally, the Amberg GRP was deployed to do the quality control plus the clearance verification. Equipment used: • GRP 1000 Slab Track to lay the tracks. • VMS 1000 for the relative and geometric quality control. • GRP 5000 for Clearance verification.
What are the benefits for the customer and the track owner? • The confidence that the tracks are perfectly laid, meaning only minimal maintenance is expected during the operation. • Reduction in maintenance costs. • Properly aligned tracks are an important safety factor.
Network Rail With a doubling of passenger numbers in the last 20 years, Network Rail were looking to improve their track maintenance work as the amount of free track time available was being reduced each year. In early 2016 Network Rail decided to use the latest development by Amberg Technology, the IMS 3000 Tamping. The systems are being used in Network Rail’s high-output depots, where Network Rail carries out track renewals and ballast cleaning. The IMS 3000 systems are used to carry out design verification surveys before the work begins, for pre and post tamping surveys and finally for as-built surveys to ensure the Rail Professional
