Life on board ESS

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.

One of Citytunneln’s objectives is for the finished connection, improving the infrastructure between Copenhagen, Malmö and Lund, is to contribute to an environmentally-harmonised transport system and a long-term sustainable society. This will be achieved primarily by giving a greater number of people the opportunity to use public transport instead of using cars.

Personally, I got an arty vibe while walking around the industrial environment of the underground chambers. I took a couple of pictures that you can watch here below.

The Malmö City Tunnel is actually a big art project since it will become decorated with huge installations by several contemporary artists. One example is in the underground station area, Malmö C Nedre: Travellers will be met by moving images from around the world. Tania Ruiz Gutiérrez’s video artwork ‘Itineracy’ projects pictures on the station walls giving the impression of train windows. Video sequences have been filmed at a large number of sites throughout the world. ‘Itineracy’ is formulated so that it is unlikely that travellers will encounter the same images more than once.