| 75 | | Award of the mandate “3D modelling for the project to clear the former Mitholz ammunition depot” | In a hard-fought competition, we won the mandate “3D modelling for the project to clear the former Mitholz ammunition depot” on behalf of armasuisse Immobilien.
The promising mandate is a cross-sectional assignment covering all planned work and includes 3D modelling to accompany all planning and realisation works. In addition to the comprehensive modelling (also in BIM) of the construction measures, the existing structure as well as the topography, geology and hydrogeology must also be integrated into the overall model.
We are very happy about the great success of this competition and to be able to contribute to the achievement of this complex project! | 30/06/2022 | 30/06/2023 | 30/06/2022 12:16 |
| 74 | | Lima: The megacity moves forward with Line 2 | Last January saw the successful completion of the excavation by TBM of the first section of the future line 2 of the Lima metro, which began in September 2021. Line 2 will connect one of the largest agglomerations in South America.
On 26 January, the "breakthrough ceremony" of the TBM "Delia" at the Circunvalación station in the busy district of San Luis was celebrated, marking the end of the first stage after 720 m of excavation from the San Juan de Dios station.
Line 2, with an extension of 27 km that includes 27 stations, will drastically improve the mobility of the citizens of the capital of Peru thanks to the connection of the district of Ate with that of Callao.
Lombardi is proud to assist the Construction Consortium M2 Lima in its on-site technical assistance mission, which also includes design activities, monitoring and analysis of the excavation of the 17 km carried out with TBM. | 30/05/2022 | 30/06/2023 | 30/06/2022 12:16 |
| 72 | | Switzerland's largest alpine solar plant produces electricity | The Swiss Energy Strategy 2050 focuses on renewable energy. For this energy transition, more electricity must also be produced in winter to close the so-called winter electricity gap. This is precisely where the pioneering project in the Alps comes in.
Switzerland's largest alpine solar plant at 2500 metres above sea level was partially commissioned at the end of 2021. The pioneering AlpinSolar project is expected to produce 3.3 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year from August 2022 - half of it in winter. In this way, solar energy is used at any time of the year and despite the “sea of fog”.
Lombardi is proud to have been entrusted by AlpinSolar Ltd. with the design services for the technical centre of the photovoltaic system for this pioneering project. The services included the SIA phases 32, 41 and 51 to 53 for construction works and heating, ventilation, air conditioning equipments. | 18/03/2022 | 18/03/2023 | 21/03/2022 15:53 |
| 71 | | New Ritom pumped storage hydropower plant - Last breakthrough | On February 23, 2022, after almost 12 months of work, the Tunnel Boring Machine completed the excavation of the inclined shaft, connecting the area where the Lake Ritom is located and the donwstream area where the powerhouse of the new Ritom hydroelecrtric power plant has been almost completed.
The new adduction system, completely underground, was excavated starting in 2019 from the bottom of the valley with drill&blast for the first 770 metres. Then, in March 2021, a 3,2 m diameter Tunnel Boring Machine was lanced to excavate the 1,4 km long inclined shaft, overcoming a difference in height of almost 800 metres and raising up to a maximum gradient of 90%.
The next works include the installation and subsequent grouting of a steel lining within the new underground supply system, through which the water from the Lake Ritom, with a hydraulic head of 840 metres, will finally reach two 60 MW Pelton turbines that will be installed in the new Ritom SA powerhouse. In addition, thanks to the installation of a 60 MW pump, there will be the possibility in the future of pumping water up into the Lake Ritom.
The completion of the Project and commissioning of the pumped storage hydropower plant is planned for 2025. | 07/03/2022 | 07/03/2023 | 07/03/2022 12:09 |
| 73 | | First Breakthrough of India biggest Hydroshield TBM | January 10th, 2022 marks the first Breaktrough of India’s biggest TBM “Mavala” at retrieval shaft constructed in Girgaon Chowpatty, Mumbai, India.
Mavala (excavation diameter 12.19 m) was commissioned on 11 January 11th, 2021 from launching shaft at Priyadarshini Park and a total of 2,072 metres of tunnelling was completed in a course of 1 year, excavating through challenging geological conditions under the sea level, and underpassing structures of historical and cultural relevance. Lombardi, as Detailed Design Consultant, is proud to be part of this great achievement providing engineering services for Tunnelling and Civil Works, as well as for MEP and Ventilation Works to Larsen & Toubro Ltd for the ambitious Mumbai Coastal Road Project / Package 4.
See the video (link):
https://youtu.be/t1J-6xdM5zg | 21/01/2022 | 21/01/2023 | 23/03/2022 14:07 |
| 70 | | First impounding of the Arenal reservoir | The first impounding of the Arenal reservoir (62 MW power plant in Honduras) is scheduled to start in the next few days. This is an important milestone towards the commissioning of the plant and it will take two to three months until completion, depending on the river discharge.
Lombardi has dealt with the project development since the preliminary stages and has continued to assist the client through the final design and tendering, until detail design and site supervision during construction. | 18/10/2021 | 18/10/2022 | 18/10/2021 15:23 |
| 69 | | Handover and inauguration of the project Oroscocha | Last year, Lombardi Group employees were able to donate a part of their December wages to an aid project of their choice. Lombardi Group has doubled this amount. Three projects were supported. Among them, the Oroscocha project.
On Friday, September 24th, 2021, the social aid project “Let’s help Oroscocha to develop and grow” was officially handed over and inaugurated. The project includes the construction and furnishing of a school building for PRONOEI (“Programa no escolarizado de educación inicial”), a program for early extracurricular education. Oroscocha is a rural community in the Andes of Cusco-Peru.
Lombardi Group is extremely pleased to have been able, together with its employees, to make this valuable contribution to the education of the children and future generations of this community. | 14/10/2021 | 14/10/2022 | 14/10/2021 14:58 |
| 68 | | Groundbreaking ceremony at the Gotthard – starting shot for the second tube | Seit 3 Jahren arbeitet die IG Nuovo Gottardo (Lombardi, B+S, ILF und Emch+Berger) als Projektverfasser Tunnel intensiv am Projekt «Secondo tubo San Gottardo». Am 29. September 2021 wurde der Spatenstich zum Bau des zweiten Gotthard-Strassentunnels ein wichtiger Meilenstein gefeiert.
Wir freuen uns auf die weitere Zusammenarbeit mit allen Projektbeteiligten. | 05/10/2021 | 05/10/2022 | 05/10/2021 09:15 |
| 67 | | Inauguration of the new Mobility Center (Centre de la Mobilité) in Brussels | The new Mobility Center in the Belgian capital Brussels was inaugurated on September 1st by Minister Elke Van den Brandt, in the presence of representatives of Bruxelles Mobilité and STIB.
The Lombardi Belgium team consists of around 30 staff members (15 operators, 6 supervisors and 8 managers) who work 24/7 to ensure safety in the 26 tunnels and on the 350 kilometres of roads in the Brussels capital region. | 30/09/2021 | 30/09/2022 | 05/10/2021 11:44 |
| 66 | | Lombardi consolidates his presence in Philippines with the new design contract of Upper Wawa Pumping Station Project | Lombardi will provide his design services together with technical site support for the EPC contractor Prime BMD involved in the construction of the Upper Wawa Pumping Station Project in Philippines. Design activities started in September, 2021 and will be completed by mid of 2023.
The Upper Wawa Pumping Station Project includes a pumping station for potable water of 518 millions of liter per day capacity (6 m3/s) that will serve the city of Manila as part of the Bulk Water Supply project. The Employer of the project is Wawa JVCo and the EPC contractor is Prime BMD.
The project consists mainly on pumping station hosted in of a vertical shaft approx. 65 m deep, a 2.1 km conveyor steel pipeline of 1.8 m diameter, an access road 1.5 km long and an access tunnel 980 m long. The project will have three separate intakes consisting of steel lining suction tunnels equipped valves that will convey the water for the new WAWA reservoir to the
the pumping station. The pumped water will be conveyed to Calawis water treatment plant.
Commissioning of the project is foreseen in December, 2024. | 28/09/2021 | 28/09/2022 | 30/09/2021 11:42 |
| 65 | | Lombardi@NTech | The road infrastructure must be constantly monitored by means of new technologies, ensuring continuous diagnosis and knowledge of the condition and behaviour of the structures in real time. The aim is to always guarantee the safety of the road infrastructure and to ensure optimum economic and sustainable maintenance management.
Lombardi, together with its partners Infrastructure Management Consultants, Institute of Structural Analysis and Design ETH Zurich and Lehmann+Partner, is pleased to carry out the forward-looking client support mandate for the project "Use of new technologies for infrastructure monitoring" for the Federal Roads Office FEDRO.
| 19/08/2021 | 19/08/2022 | 19/08/2021 10:09 |
| 63 | | New Boardmembers “Giovanni Lombardi” foundation | Maren Katterbach is the new president of the Giovanni Lombardi foundation Board and welcomes the new members Dr Sara Zingg, Dr Selim Sayah from Lombardi. We are looking forward to pursuing the goals of the Foundation with this great expertise. To attract young future engineers to submit research proposals to the foundation and stimulate interesting research works, an improvement to communications in general, and the divulgation of research works being performed is planned. Direct contact with possible candidates is sought and a closer follow-up of research work by specialized persons is foreseen. The Giovanni Lombardi foundation thereby hopes to strengthen its position as an encouraging and supporting actor for research. Within the framework of the new set up, the foundation is also launching a new call for proposals. More information on the foundation, research projects and planned calls for proposals, you can find on our webpage. / here | 18/08/2021 | 18/08/2022 | 18/08/2021 16:26 |
| 64 | | Commissioning of first TBM at Snowy 2.0 – 2’000 MW PSP project | Snowy Hydro celebrated a major milestone, with commissioning of the first tunnel boring machine (TBM) for the Snowy 2.0 project. The ‘Lady Eileen Hudson’ TBM will soon commence tunnelling for Australia’s largest renewable energy project, the 2,000 MW pumped-hydro expansion of the mighty Snowy Scheme.
TBM is set to excavate the 2.6km main access tunnel and provide access to the site of the underground power station. The TBM will be relaunched to excavate the tailrace tunnel for a total of 7.9km.
In this project, Lombardi scope includes the design of all the dry and wet tunnels, including the inclined pressure shaft, in addition to both the intakes and surge shaft, downstream and upstream. Lombardi is carrying too all the hydraulic and transient analysis. | 18/07/2021 | 18/07/2022 | 30/09/2021 14:03 |
| 60 | | The largest hydroshield TBM in India has been activated | January 2021: The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) extended the road network of the city with a belt road seaside, already partly realized with the Bandra-Worli Sea-Link bridge, crossing the Mahim bay. This new route, the Mumbai Coastal Road, is 30 km long and mostly on bridges and is closed at its south end by an approx. 4 km long tunnel. This links the Worli interchange to the Marine Drive, also known for its arched shape called the Princess Necklace, towards Nariman Point near the renowned monument of the Gateway of India.
The design of the tunnel was awarded to Lombardi Group by Larsen & Toubro, the company selected for its realization and the largest contractor in India.
After 1 year of design and the completion of the preliminary works, the largest hydroshield TBM in India was lowered in the launching shaft (becoming part of the future ramp to the surface portion of the project) last December. The TBM "Mavala" was activated this January 2021, the 11th day, under the auspices and presence of the state Head Minister of Maharashtra, whose capital city is Mumbai. The TBM is manufactured by China Railway Construction Heavy Industry Co. Ltd. (CRCHI) according to the design specification Lombardi defined and calibrated in cooperation with the contractor and the manufacturer.
The TBM has the largest diameter today in India (12.19 m), allows the installation of precast segments of 35 cm thickness according to the named "universal geometry". On its invert, a precast utility box harbours all canals, technical ducts and the cabling for the ventilation, the lighting, the detection and the tunnel management.
Lombardi Group presence in the project is assured by its Indian branch, the headquarters in Switzerland and the contribution of its Italian branch. It developed the civil work design of the tunnel and the related works (the cross passages and the technical buildings) and the design of the ventilation system, the safety equipment and the electromechanical equipment, as well as the complete SCADA system (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) for the operation management and control as well as in case of accident or of maintenance. Fire accidents with 100 MW fire power (heavy truck with high fire potential, according to the Rijkswaterstaat curve) have been simulated by 3D CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) analyses in order to define the efficiency and the characteristics of the ventilation system (Saccardo system). | 09/02/2021 | 09/02/2022 | 09/02/2021 16:36 |
| 61 | | First female federal expert for dams in Switzerland | Lombardi is pleased to have Switzerland’s first female federal expert for dams among its employees. Mrs. Fern has been appointed civil engineering expert for the Lessoc dam, operated by Groupe E in the Canton of Fribourg. Not only is she the first woman, but at 32 she is also the youngest professional to hold this position in Switzerland. | 09/02/2021 | 09/02/2022 | 09/02/2021 16:55 |
| 62 | | Operation of the Brussels road network | Since 2015, Lombardi has been in charge of operating the Brussels road network. This highly frequented network (500’000 vehicles per day) includes 350 km of urban roads, 15 km of highways and 13 km of tunnels.
This fruitful collaboration with the Brussels-Capital Region was initiated in the media context calling for a better management of mobility and tunnels in Brussels.
There are many challenges to be met in the coming years. Currently, the team is opening its horizons towards integrated and real-time mobility management, thereby developing its knowledge in the field of intelligent traffic and deepening its contacts with the other players of Brussels mobility. This is manifested especially in the creation of partnerships with public transport and rescue services | 09/02/2021 | 09/02/2022 | 09/02/2021 17:13 |
| 59 | | Award of 5 federal research packages in tunnel maintenance management | January 2021: The aim of the research on the maintenance management of mined tunnels is to define a methodological structure for the long-term object-related maintenance planning of tunnels, considering the integration into a superordinate maintenance management at the overall system level.
Lombardi has been awarded with research packages for the maintenance management of mined tunnels in various engineering joint-ventures.
The five research packages include the damage processes and long-term behavior of tunnels, the monitoring and inspection methods, the analysis and definition of maintenance measures and the cataloging, as well as the development of a decision model and the development of a cost model as a basis for decision-making.
Lombardi is extremely pleased to participate actively in the research in the road sector for the benefit of its customers . | 27/01/2021 | 27/01/2022 | 27/01/2021 16:45 |
| 58 | | Preliminary studies for flood protection plans of the Cities of Sullana and Talara, Peru | January 2021: Lombardi has been awarded with the Preliminary studies for flood protection plans of the Cities of Sullana and Talara, Perú.
The Integral Protection Plan includes the conception of the construction, operation and maintenance of the structural and non-structural urban measures related to water drainage, in order to reduce the risk or mitigate the damage caused by floods due to extreme rainfall.
The integrated study, through a disaster risk management and sustainable development approach, will strengthen the resilience of the population, assets and the environment, through a set of specific measures and interventions. | 15/01/2021 | 15/01/2022 | 15/01/2021 08:29 |
| 57 | | Award for the project design consultancy of the underground railway station in Lucerne | December 2020: Lombardi, AFRY Switzerland Ltd, B+S Ltd and Dürig Ltd, as Engineering Joint Venture LUx, have been awarded the general design consultancy of the underground station. The underground station is the centerpiece of a new cross-city rail line that will significantly increase the capacity of the Lucerne railway junction. The Engineering Joint Venture LUx was commissioned with the general design consultancy of the station. With around 100'000 boarding and alighting passengers per day, Lucerne railway station is the sixth-largest railway station in Switzerland. However, due to its central location directly on the lakeshore and the complexity of rail operations, it is reaching its limits. With the underground through-station and a new cross-city railway line, capacities will be increased and ensured in the long term. Four underground tracks will connect the Basel/Bern–Lucerne and Lucerne–Zurich axes in the future. Passengers will benefit from new through-connections, more trains and shorter journey times. The through-station will represent a key element of the national and regional railway mobility. The mandate of the Engineering Joint Venture LUx includes the general design consultancy of the design phases from the preliminary design to and including the tender design/procedure. Optionally, the assignment of the phases detailed design, commissioning and completion is also planned, as Owner's Engineer.
| 06/01/2021 | 06/01/2022 | 06/01/2021 11:14 |
| 55 | | Award for Mumbai Coastal Road Project Package-IV (MCRP-IV) | November 2020: The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai proposed to develop a coastal road project (MCRP) from Princess Street flyover to Kandivali junction, over a length of approximately 29 km, to ease the traffic congestion in Mumbai and, simultaneously, to create recreational spaces in the adjoining areas. This project is being implemented in 2 phases namely South and North. This phase is further divided into 3 packages, which are:
- Package IV: Princess street flyover to Priyadarshini park (km 1+970 to km 5+900);
- Package I: Priyadarshini park to Baroda palace (km 5+900 to km 9+720); and
- Package II: Baroda palace to Worli end of BWSL (km 9+720 to km 12+470).
Lombardi has been awarded the Package-IV of this project, which includes a 2 km long twin tube tunnel with a diameter of 12.2 m excavated by TBM, for design and design-support during construction by Larson & Toubro (L&T) which is the Design Build Contractor (DBC) of Package-IV.
The TBM itself is a Slurry-type TBM and the largest TBM in India as of November 2020. Each tunnel is expected to take ~8 months to drill with TBM. The two tunnel alignments pass under Malabar Hills of Mumbai as well as under the famous Hanging Gardens. The geology encountered along the alignments consists of Basalts and Breccia-Shales.
Currently, the TBM is getting assembled, the cutter head is being welded, the launching shaft is ready and the TBM gantry is almost assembled. The casting of the segments has also started. We congratulate all officials and engineers involved in this project for such great progress. | 05/01/2021 | 05/01/2022 | 05/01/2021 11:55 |
