World of PORR 169/2016 PORR Updates “Rotes Rathaus” in Berlin – Roofing ceremony for new U5 underground station

From left to right: Mr. Maik Kopsch (Sub-Project Manager BRH Projektrealisierungs GmbH U5), Dr. Hischam Fouad (Managing Director of PORR Germany); Ute Bonde (Managing Director of Finanzen Projektrealisierungs GmbH U5), Jörg Seegers (Managing Director of Technik Projektrealisierungs GmbH U5), Heinz Peyer (Site Supervisor with PORR Germany). Image: PORR AG

The Gap Closure U5 project extends the previous underground line 5 from Alexanderplatz to Brandenburg Gate right through the centre of Berlin and there, connects it with the U 55 line. One of three new underground stations is built right in front of “Rotes Rathaus” (“Red City Hall”) and will in the future bear its name.

In the course of the completion of the “Rotes Rathaus” underground station, BVG/Projektrealisierungsgesellschaft GmbH U5 invited 300 guests to a roofing ceremony on 7 September 2016.

Guests in attendance included Michael Müller, Mayor of Berlin, the head of board of Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe, Dr. Sigrid Evelyn Nikutta, the management of PORR Deutschland GmbH, Dr. Hischam Fouad and many representatives from politics and the economy.

The 30m-deep and waterproof construction pit and the carcass of the two-storey underground station including the connection to the existing tunnel could be completed on schedule.

In their speeches, Mayor Müller and the head of the board of BVG, Ms. Nikutta, highlighted PORR’s high quality of execution, in particular the “mushroom cap” columns, and thanked the participants for the project’s on-schedule completion.

In PORR Site Supervisor Heinz Peyer’s ceremonious roofing speech, he thanked the client and all builders involved, expressed the wish that the underground station Rotes Rathaus may stand forever and inaugurated the latter in the manner of his profession.

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