Technical Tours on 28 June

Please only choose 1 tour when registering

1. Sprogø, Storebælt. Bridgewalking on the Little Belt Bridge

Max. 50 participants

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Storebælt, East Bridge


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Lillebælt



09:00 Departure from Tivoli Congress Hotel

10:00 The bus passes the suspension bridge that carries the motorway over the eastern part of the Great Belt

10:15 Arrival at Sprogø, where the bus stops at the end abutment of the bridge over the western part of the suspension bridge.

11:00 Departure Sprogø

12:00 Arrival Lillebælt. Orientation about the bridge from Banedanmark. Equipment. Toilet visit

13:00 Guided Bridgewalking tour on the Little Belt Bridge. An approximately 2 km trip across the Little Belt with a fantastic view along the way. Along the way, there is an opportunity to see various technical conditions on the 1180 m long cantilever bridge. [more info at www.bridgewalking.dk. In Danish/German/English]

15:00 Bus back to Copenhagen

17-17:30 Arrival at the Tivoli Congress centre


2. Femern

Max. 25 participants

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09:15 Transport from Tivoli Congress Hotel

11:15 – 11.45 Tour in the exhibition Center Femern

11.45 – 13.00 Visit to factory hall and tunnel portal

13.00 – 13.30 Lunch (sandwich)

13.30 – 15.30 The bus returns to the Tivoli Congress Hotel


3. The Nordhavnstunnel and a Boat tour round Nordhavn and Lynetteholm - 2 new areas of Copenhagen

Max. 20 participants

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09.00 Departure from Tivoli Congress Hotel

10.00 – 11.30 A trip by boat round the area of Nordhavn and Lynetteholm.
On the 1,5 hour boat trip on the electric vessel "El Portus", By & Havn will give a brief introduction to the urban transformation of Nordhavn as well as the port activicities and the construction of Lynetteholm - an artificial pinincula in the port of Copenhagen, which will help protect Copenhagen from rising sealevels and storm-surges in the future.

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch (sandwich).

13.00 – 15.30 Visit the Nordhavnstunnels construction site.
The Tunnel will be 1,4 km  long, and it is a continuation of an exsisting  tunnel of 900 m in length. The new Tunnel is prepared for further e extension to an eastly Ringroad as Tunnel to Copenhagen Airport. The Construction take part in the middle of Copenhagen, and is going under the biggest Lightboatharbour in Denmark. So there are many different parties involved in the Project.The total cost of the Project is about 4 bio. Dkr, and the Tunnel is expected opened for traffic in the middle of 2027.

Orientation of the Copenhagen-Malmoe Port

15.30 – 16.30 The Bus is returning to Tivoli Congress Hotel


4. Øresund Bridge Visit

Max. 50 participants

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09.20 Leave from Tivoli Congress Hotel

10.00 – 12.00 Arrival at Öresund Bridge

Grouping in 2:
1) Introduction to the bridge and O&M activities walking on a service road along the railway
2) Introduction and visit to flood protection project

The two groups will switch after 1 hour.

The Öresund Bridge is part of the Öresund Link connecting Denmark and Sweden and it opened to traffic in 2000. The bridge part of the link is approximately 8 km long and consist of 7 km approach bridges and the largest cable-stayed bridge in Europe carrying both road and rail. The two-level girder for the cable-stayed bridge is a composite truss in steel and concrete. The approach bridges have a two-level composite superstructure with a steel truss incorporating an upper concrete roadway deck and lower steel cross beams with a concrete railway containment.

Øresundsbro Konsortiet is protecting the four-kilometre-long tunnel against a surge. When the current projects have been completed in 2025, the tunnel part of the Øresund link will be able to withstand a 10,000-year storm surge projected up to 2050. The Øresund link between Denmark and Sweden was designed to withstand a 10,000-year storm surge when it was first inaugurated in 2000. But climate projections have changed since then. According to new climate models, we can expect to see more frequent and more powerful storm surges. The current projects therefore involve building new dikes and a concrete wall to protect the tunnel stretch of the link.

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch (sandwich).

13:00 Bus return to Tivoli Congress Hotel

No specific safety equipment is needed – safety helmet and vest will be provided on site. Please wear clothes suitable for the weather and practical footwear that allow for walking on grating panels.


5. The new cable stayed bridge across Storstrømmen

Max. 50 participants - NB: deadline for registration is 17 June.

Between Copenhagen and the new Femern-connection between Denmark and Germany the railway crosses Storstrømmen. Due to aging and fatigue problems on the existing bridge over Storstrømmen it was decided to build a new bridge with two highspeed railtracks, a two lane local road and a combined pedestrian/cycle path. The total length of the bridge is about 4000 meters.

09:00 Departure from Tivoli Congress Hotel

10.30 Arrival at the visitor center – A short welcome to the construction site from the project

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Team 1: First a short presentation about the planning, construction and time schedule for the new bridge. Then Team 1 drives with the bus to the Masnedø fortress, where you can view over Storstrømmen and see the bridge construction until now. Return to the visitor center with the bus.

Team 2: Put on PPE (hardhats, safety vests and safety shoes) and walk on a guided tour of the construction site on Masnedø, the prefabrication yard.

12:00  Lunch

13.30  The two teams switch program

14.00  Departure from Masnedø

15:30 arrival in Copenhagen at Tivoli Congress Hotel

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The new bridge alignment indicated as the thick blue line shows, and the current bridge location is shown with a thin black line.


6. Copenhagen Bridges

Max. 60 participants

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“Long Bridge” (In Danish: Langebro)


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“The Circle Bridge” (In Danish: Cirkelbroen)


09.30 – 10.30 Departure from Tivoli Congress Hotel by foot. Walking to visit the “Bicycle Snake”, ”Quay Bridge”, “Alfred Nobel Bridge”, “Kalvebod Wave”. Stop at “Long Bridge” (In Danish: Langebro).

10.30 – 12.30 Tour around Langebro, which is a twin bascule bridge inaugurated in 1954. The tour is hosted by the Municipality of Copenhagen and the guides are involved in the daily operation and the ongoing rehabilitation of the bridge. The tour will include a general tour on and beneath the bridge from publicly accessible areas as well as a visit to the control tower and the bascule machinery. If the traffic situation allows, it will be possible to witness a bridge opening.

12.30 – 13.00 Lunch is served on the boat.

13.00 – 14.30 Sailing North in the inner harbor to see the bridges “Tiny Langebro”, “The Circle Bridge”, “Knippelsbro”, “The Kissing Bridge” to mention a few. The tour also includes a series of Copenhagen’s most iconic tourist attractions like the Opera House, Amalienborg Castle, Nyhavn, The Royal Library, etc. The tour ends at the same location as it started.

14.30 – 15.00 Walking back to Tivoli Congress Hotel.


7. Danish Technical University

This exciting tour will take you to DTU’s Center for Advanced Structures and Material Testing – CASMaT.  CASMaT is the key research infrastructure at DTU servicing experimental research in mechanics of materials and structures. The center is organized to align use of equipment and expertise at DTU across a range of application areas and length scales and covers full scale testing, component and hybrid testing, material testing and micromechanical testing and characterization. The tour will take you to DTU’s campus at Risø near Roskilde and Lyngby north of Copenhagen, you will have a chance to get a close look at the facilities, meet researchers and learn about the history and capabilities of CASMaT.   

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Wind turbine blade during a test campaign at CASMaT Large Scale Facility.


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Coupon testing of composite materials at CASMaT Materials Lab.



CASMaT: The structural and materials testing facilities at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

09:00 Departure from Tivoli Congress Hotel

09:45 Arrival at DTU Risø Campus

10:00 Tour of CASMaT Large Scale Facility – a state-of-the art research facility specially equipped for full-scale testing of wind turbine blades.

11:00 Tour of CASMaT Materials Lab Facility – DTU’s state-of-the art materials testing facility

11:45 Departure from DTU Risø Campus

12:30 Arrival at DTU Lyngby Campus

12:30 Sandwich lunch

13:00 Tour of CASMaT Structural Lab – a research facility dedicated to testing at component scale equipped with state-of-the-art loading, control and measurement equipment, allowing e.g. hybrid testing.

14:00 Departure from DTU Lyngby Campus

14:30 Arrival at Tivoli Congress Hotel

 

All tours have a price of DKK 150/ € 20, which is non-refundable.
Tours can be booked at a first-come-first-served basis in the registration link.