I gave a presentation to NCC about ESS the other day. NCC is one of the leading construction and property development companies in the Nordic region.
After lunch I had the pleasure of joining the NCC crew on a guided tour down the Malmö City Tunnel.
The City Tunnel project is a project where almost everything happens in large numbers. This includes the amount of concrete used – in total about 400,000 m3 along the 17 kilometres of railway path with a 6 kilometre long tunnel running under the city of Malmö.
We went some 25 meters below ground to visit a 250 meters long and 14.5 meters wide railway platform beneath the really centre of Malmö called Triangeln. This train station will become the second largest in Sweden when it comes to the amount of daily passing travellers.
Our hotel is very convenient for the huge Knoxville Convention Centre, a purpose-built affair with a capacity of perhaps 4000 people, and my room is on the 10th floor. The lifts are nice and quick however. Well, there is a freeway running in front of the hotel and the serious traffic starts up at about 6 a.m.. I have noticed an interesting "courtesy" behaviour from lorry-drivers. As police cars head down the freeway with their sirens at full-blast, lorries in the vicinity start honking their horns. In sympathy ? Well, I now realise that this is a road safety issue to warn traffic downstream (appropriate word !) of the oncoming police car and to take appropriate evasive action. I suppose you eventually get to filter this out during the night.
