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We are one of the world's leading engineering companies in underground infrastructure design with headquarters in Switzerland. For more than 50 years, we have been developing design and construction solutions in the fields of underground railway, road and metro tunnels, caverns and infrastructure galleries. Amberg Engineering specializes in innovative solutions for the subterranean space.

No matter whether it’s a feasibility study, final design or construction for new or existing structures, our employees with their many years of experience, commitment and passion see to it that projects all around the world are a success.

We provide wide-ranging business activities from planning, design, site supervision, commissioning through to renewal and refurbishment of structures, interdisciplinary planning processes and project man agement to research and development.

Expertise

Subdivision of upper parameter tunnels

  • Geotechnical Engineering
  • Structural Engineering
  • Assessment and Rehabilitation of existing structures
  • Ventilation and Safety
  • Underground Space
  • Nuclear Waste Management
  • Site Supervision
  • Project Management

Services

Scheme of the Faido MFS planned layout

Our experts prepare the planning and carry out the design from A to Z across all phases of your project. We ensure your project is taken care of when it comes to Planning and Design of

  • Geological surveys
  • Geomechanical and structural model analyses
  • Ventilation and safety technology
  • Client assistance and project management

Depending on phase of your project, our services are applied project and customer relevant at its respec tive level of detail, especially when it comes to

  • Integrated BIM Modelling with Geotechnical and structural 2D and 3D Modelling, com prising (dis)continuous numerical analysis, applying advanced modelling and simula tion tools.
  • Expertise is provided on thermal analysis of structures, evaluating temperature distribu tion in case of fire,
  • Construction sequencing of geometrical complex structures.
  • Digital planning in form of rapid engineering, information and data modelling, digitaliza tion of inventory and the integration of BIM, GIS and geological information, resulting in the Development of efficient digital processes.

Activity

TBM installation area for Sky metro tunnel

Segments of underground infrastructure

  • Rail, road and metro
  • Hydro and utilities
  • Underground space

All types of underground structures

  • Tunnels, adits, shafts and galleries
  • Caverns and underground space

Geology & ground conditions

  • Soft ground
  • Squeezing ground
  • Swelling conditions
  • Fault zones
  • Water and gas bearing ground

Excavation methods

  • TBM
  • Drill & blast
  • NATM
  • Mechanically assisted excavation (road headers, excavators, rippers, etc)

Competence

  • Comprehensive experience in underground design, from early feasibility to final detailed design, mastering all phases of the lifecycle of under ground infrastructures
  • Site supervision to support you all the way
  • Smart and feasible structural and geotechnical engineering solutions
  • Developing big data and cloud-based applica tions to enable more efficient processes and working methods
  • Clever, cost sensitive, value added alternatives

Benefits

  • A single competent partner
  • Short decision-making processes enabling quick and competent reactions to changed conditions or unexpected events.
  • The close collaboration among all Amberg Group companies – Amberg Technologies, Amberg Loglay, Amberg Infra 7D and the Hagerbach Test Gallery – enables Amberg Engineering to meet customer needs even beyond its specific scope of expertise.
  • Whether exploratory work, measuring technology, construction site logistics or the development of construction technologies – our clients benefit from the synergies within the Amberg Group.

Selected references

Project

Gotthard Base Tunnel Switzerland

Services

  • Project planning and design in engineering joint venture
  • Stability analysis and proof

Client

Alp Transit Gotthard AG

Project

Gubrist 3rd Tunnel Project, Switzerland

Services

  • Design of all underground structures
  • Design of ventilation system

Client

FEDRO Federal Roads Office, Winterthur Branch

Project

Berlin Metro U5 Germany

Services

  • Conceptual and tendering design
  • Implementation planning

Client

BVG Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe

Project

Nagra Switzerland

Services

  • Overall BIM coordination
  • Structural design of all underground structures

Client

Nagra Nationale Genossenschaft für die Lagerung radioaktiver Abfälle

Project

Metro Delhi India

Services

  • Design of segmental tunnel lining with earthquake load
  • Design of station/tunnel interfaces

Client

Italian Thai Development Public Company Ltd

Project

Brenner Base Tunnel Austria

Services

  • Basic Design
  • Final Design

Client

Galleria di Base del Brennero