Bauer and Europe’s deepest underground parking garage

BAUER Funderingstechniek has constructed an underwater concrete base for Europe's deepest parking garage in Leiden, a university city in the Dutch province of South Holland. Leiden is known for being the birthplace of Rembrandt. The Lammermarkt is an area with a park in the city centre and is used for festivals and events. In addition, the picturesque "Molen de Valk", also known as "The Falcon" is located here. It is a stone windmill that was built in 1785 and is now one of the distinctive sights of the
July 7, 2016 Read time: 2 mins
Bauer digs deep in Leiden
8350 BAUER Funderingstechniek has constructed an underwater concrete base for Europe's deepest parking garage in Leiden, a university city in the Dutch province of South Holland.

Leiden is known for being the birthplace of Rembrandt. The Lammermarkt is an area with a park in the city centre and is used for festivals and events. In addition, the picturesque "Molen de Valk", also known as "The Falcon" is located here. It is a stone windmill that was built in 1785 and is now one of the distinctive sights of the city.

An underground parking garage is being built under the Lammermarkt. With a depth of 22m, it will be the deepest underground parking garage in the entire EU.

BAUER Funderingstechniek, the Dutch subsidiary of BAUER Spezialtiefbau and based in Mijdrecht, constructed an underwater concrete base with 585 GEWI piles. Work was done on behalf of Belgian infrastructure group 1303 BESIX and the Dutch infrastructure group Dura Vermeer.

Drilling has been carried out to a depth of 55m. Three small-diameter drilling rigs on pontoons from 8454 KLEMM Bohrtechnik were used for this. KLEMM Bohrtechnik specialises in the development of high-quality and high-performance drilling equipment with a total weight up to 32tonnes.

In addition, Bauer pumped away and de-sanded the drilling fluid under water. Work was completed last November. The underground parking garage with its 525 parking spaces will be completely finished by 2017.

The BAUER Group, with 110 subsidiaries, provides services, equipment and products dealing with ground and groundwater. It was founded in 1790 and is based in Germany’s Schrobenhausen region, Bavaria. In 2015, it employed about 10,700 people in around 70 countries and achieved total group revenues of €1.66 billion.

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Work on St Petersburg bridge project
    June 20, 2016
    Contractor ICA Construction used two Aquajet robotic hydrodemolition machines at the top of a 120m-high bridge pylon located in the city of St Petersburg. The two Aquajet robotic water cutters were used to remove surplus concrete from around the inner steel structure of the bridge pylon. This link spans the River Neva and forms part of the Western High-Speed Diameter (WHSD) route in St Petersburg. The WHSD is a highly important route for the region and will provide a key connection between the Scandinavi
    Read More
  • Machine control technology shortens road contract
    May 28, 2013
    The use of sophisticated machine control technology has helped halve the schedule required for a road contract – Jeff Winke. By using the latest machine control systems on the equipment fleet, a US contractor has managed to halve worker hours, machine time and overall costs. “We chopped 50% off the contract schedule,” said Jim Swenson, licensed professional land surveyor for Oregon Mainline Paving based in McMinnville, Oregon. “The project was completed a year ahead of the two-year schedule,” he explained.
    Read More
  • Sandvik’s Korean roots
    June 14, 2012
    Sandvik has supplied an aggregate plant to the DooWon Development Company to process granite at its Jungeub quarry in JeonRa province, South Korea. The supplied equipment is processing blasted rock from a feed size of -900mm in order to produce aggregate for the Korean construction industry, with the product fractions ranging from 0-5mm to 13-25mm, at a required rate of production of 500tonnes per hour.
    Read More
  • Sandvik’s Korean roots
    June 13, 2012
    Sandvik has supplied an aggregate plant to the DooWon Development Company to process granite at its Jungeub quarry in JeonRa province, South Korea. The supplied equipment is processing blasted rock from a feed size of -900mm in order to produce aggregate for the Korean construction industry, with the product fractions ranging from 0-5mm to 13-25mm, at a required rate of production of 500tonnes per hour.
    Read More

Highlighted Content