A long underwater tunnel to connect Denmark and Germany .. one of those remarkable large engineering projects.
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Hemmingsen said making the tunnel bore more of a resemblance to building electronic components than traditional construction
“What we’re doing right now is not so much a normal construction project, where you have a lot of people running around like small ants in a limited space. It’s more like building iPhones actually.”
There are six production lines – designed to be “optimised and lean” – each producing a different element of the tunnel.
Hemmingsen compared piecing about 900 small elements together to form 90 larger elements of the tunnel to “using Lego blocks”.
“If you fail at one element you can actually replace it,” he said. “Once it’s done it looks very simple, but from an engineering perspective there are a lot of details that have to be in place before you can start.”
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