“We are delighted with the accolades for the National Stadium Warsaw, which is not only a new landmark in Poland’s capital, but also another wonderful advertisement for Alpine’s successful stadium construction division,” says Karsten Hell, CEO of ALPINE Bau Deutschland AG.

The National Stadium was designed and planned by the architectural consortium of JSK Architekci Sp. z o.o., gmp International GmbH and Schlaich Bergermann und Partner GmbH. ALPINE built the 58,000-seat stadium in collaboration with two Polish partners. For EURO 2012, ALPINE has also built the PGE Arena in Gdansk and modernised the City Stadium in Poznań.

The Central & Eastern European Real Estate Quality Award (CEEQA) is an industrial prize, which is awarded annually for outstanding achievements in the Central and Eastern European commercial property sector. It honours projects in the 18 countries making up the CEE and SEE markets.

Warsaw National Stadium crowned “Building of the Year”
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The building complex
Both 2-storey university buildings are being constructed in a conventional style with partial use of semi-finished and prefabricated elements. The exteriors consist of back-ventilated clinker surfaces with aluminium window and mullion-transom structures. Each buildings is equipped with a rooftop technical centre, which is also designed with solid, clinkered external walls for architectural reasons.

Further ALPINE projects for research and education
ALPINE is responsible for numerous building projects nationally and internationally in the field of research and education. Among the company’s current projects are construction of the Pharmaceutical Institute at the University of Münster, the National Research Centre for Electromagnetic Radiation in Kraków/Poland and the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Gdansk/Poland.

The Stuttgart 21 project
The Stuttgart – Ulm railroad project comprises the Stuttgart 21 section and the new Wendlingen – Ulm line. The construction project is the largest enlargement of the public railroad system in Baden-Württemberg since the 19th century. The new Stuttgart–Ulm line will be part of the European high-speed “Magistrale for Europe“ net, linking cities and regions with a total of 34 inhabitants and 16 million employees in five states. Karlsruhe, Stuttgart and Ulm are centrally located along the 1,500 km railroad line connecting the European cities of Paris, Strasbourg, Munich and Vienna with Bratislava and Budapest. As the main east/west axis, the Magistrale will be the backbone of the Trans-European railroad network. The extension of the Magistrale is an important prerequisite for a rapid economic, political and cultural coalescence between Western and Eastern Europe.

16 Tunnel for the Stuttgart-Ulm railroad project
About half of the 117 kilometers of the new railroad line will lead through 16 tunnels. The tunnels are the mainstay of the entire railway project: in the future trains will travel underground in the Stuttgart city center.

ALPINE builds around the world
The Austrian ALPINE Construction Company is a member of the FCC Group and has built roads, motorways, power plants, stadiums, railways and subways, bridges, residential, commercial and industrial buildings around the world. Together with its subsidiary, ALPINE-ENERGIE, it promotes the construction and development of sustainable, alternative energies and energy networks. ALPINE has over 15,000 employees. Approximately half of the revenue from construction services of approx. 3.5 billion euros per year is generated in Austria’s domestic market.

The FCC conglomerate with its head office in Madrid operates in the public services, environmental services, infrastructure and renewable energies sector on an international scale. FCC has over 90,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Last year its sales were in excess of 12 billion euros with a profit of over 300 million euros.

ALPINE to build railroad tunnel for Stuttgart 21

The consortium has therefore secured its second contract on this section of motorway. Only 500 m away from the Lauter Valley Bridge, the consortium is currently building the new Waschmühltal bridge.

Lauter Valley Bridge
During the course of widening the A6 autobahn to 6 lanes between the Kaiserslautern-West junction and the Kaiserslautern motorway intersection, the present Lauter Valley Bridge will be completely dismantled and replaced with a new bridge. The existing bridge will be completely deconstructed down to the foundation structures, which will be left in the ground. Two separate structural sections will be built, one for each carriageway. These two 5-span composite steel sections bridge the Lauterbach valley with a length of  275 metres. At its highest point, the bridge passes approximately 25 metres over the valley floor.

Success in bridge construction
Other large-scale projects, such as the new Waschmühltal bridge and the approx. 2.7 km long Unstruttal bridge between Erfurt and Leipzig/Halle, will be completed in 2012 and are prime examples of ALPINE’s expertise in bridge construction and civil engineering.

The ALPINE Construction Company and a Polish partner constructed three stadiums for the European Football Championships. Posen Stadium, seating 43,000, was completed in the fall of 2010; the PGE Arena in Gdansk, holding 44,000 spectators, hosted its first games in August 2011, and Warsaw National Stadium with a capacity of 58,000, was officially opened yesterday. ALPINE demonstrated its exceptional international competence in the construction of sports facilities once more in preparing for the large-scale UEFA Euro 2012^TM event. 

Facts and figures for the three European Championship stadiums built by ALPINE
Warsaw National Stadium:
58,000 seats
Cost: 1.5 billion zloty 

UEFA Euro 2012 games in Warsaw:
June 8:   Opening game Poland vs. Greece
June 12: Poland vs. Russia
June 16: Greece vs. Russia
June 21: Quarter final
June 28: Semi-final 1.A – 2.B 

PGE Arena Gdansk:
44,000 seats
Cost: 530 million zloty

UEFA Euro 2012 games in Gdansk:
June 10: Spain vs. Italy
June 14: Spain vs. Ireland
June 18: Croatia vs. Spain
June 22: Quarter final 1.B – 2.A 

Posen City Stadium:
43,000 seats
Cost: 480 million zloty 

UEFA Euro 2012 games in Posen:
June 10: Ireland vs. Croatia
June 14: Italy vs. Croatia
June 22: Italy vs. Ireland

70,000 celebrate opening of the new National Stadium in Warsaw
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The spectacular Baku Crystal Hall is being built on National Flag Square and will be a new landmark in Baku’s port. The hall constructed by ALPINE will allow 16,000 spectators to watch the 2012 Song Contest live on each of three days. Another 100 million viewers around the world are expected to watch the event on television to see which performers from among the 43 participating nations win the contest.

ALPINE started building the multipurpose hall last August. ALPINE is the main contractor responsible for planning and building the Baku Crystal Hall. The hall will have a capacity of up to 25,000 spectators. Currently 500 members of staff are working on Baku’s most famous construction site to ensure the project’s timely completion.

European Broadcasting Union (EBU): 2012 Eurovision Song Contest will be broadcast from the “Baku Crystal Hall”
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New Kaiser Wilhelm Tunnel meets the latest safety requirements
The new, single-track Kaiser Wilhelm Tunnel is located on the railway line between Koblenz and Perl in Rhineland-Palatinate. The new tunnel meets the latest safety standards. The new tunnel tube will be connected to the old tunnel tube by eight 15-meter accessible cross passages. The project has a contract value of about 80 million euros. A total of 67,000 cubic meters of concrete were used to line the tunnel walls with reinforced concrete tubbing, for the tunnel floor and for the construction of the two tunnel portals and eight cross drifts. The 360,000 cubic meters of excavated material was removed by rail in an environmentally friendly way. The first trains are scheduled to run through the new tunnel at the end of 2012. Afterwards the old Kaiser Wilhelm Tunnel will be rehabilitated.

The Mayor of Gdansk, Pavel Adamowicz, welcomed pupils, teachers, parents and representatives of both ALPINE and Hydrobudowa Polska S. A. to the sports ground’s grand opening.

The sports facility forms part of the ‘Junior Gdansk 2012′ initiative. The City of Gdansk initiated the local programme for promoting children’s and youth sports under the auspices of the mayor of Gdansk. The initiative focuses on building and modernising school sports facilities in the Gdansk region.

Gdansk is one of four Polish towns hosting games in the EURO 2012 competition. The successful application represented the initial spark for the ‘Junior Gdansk 2012′ project.

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The Structure
The more than 100-year old, single track bridge was replaced by a new, twin track structure adjacent to the old bridge. A total of 800 metres of new track and 900 tonnes of steel were used to build the 160-metre long and 12-metre high bridge.

ALPINE started work in April 2010 by installing the bridge foundations, i.e. the foundations and the bored piles were installed. Once the riverbed pier had been installed, the prestressed concrete superstructure followed in February this year. The final gap was bridged this summer. The final step was the completion of the superstructure works (tracks, sleepers, ballast). The first train rolled down the track at 3 am on 4 October. 

The hotel was constructed on an existing car park in the immediate vicinity of Terminal T-2. The value of the contract is around 32 million Euro. Poland is an interesting and important market for ALPINE. The contract was won thanks to the company’s expertise and underlines its growing presence on the Polish market.

The hotel
The hotel will have around 16,750 square meters of floor space and a total of 225 rooms. It will have a swimming pool as well as a fitness and wellness area alongside its restaurants and five conference rooms. The firm of architects, JEMS ARCHITEKCI Sp. z o.o., designed the eight-storey building.

ALPINE – experienced in hotel construction
ALPINE has already successfully completed some well-known large hotel projects. These include the Empire Riverside at the port of Hamburg and the Villa Kennedy in Frankfurt am Main, both located in Germany. Currently work is going on in Berlin’s Kurfürstendamm to build the 5-star Waldorf Astoria Hotel in the high-rise “Zoofenster Berlin” building.