Tweet Share

• Send by email

  Send by email

  

  Economic feasibility study for the use of fire protection boards in road tunnels

  Fires in a tunnel can cause considerable damage to the structure, resulting in the tunnel being closed for refurbishment works, at times for many months. Such closures always have an additional and sometimes a very negative effect, because tunnels generally have a special role in the surrounding transport infrastructure (bottleneck). As a result, diversion routes are overloaded with unplanned traffic and the accessibility of locations or whole regions is restricted. In order to reduce the consequences of fire incidents, fire protection boards are actually being fitted to the inner shells in order to protect the shells from high temperatures. The study presented here, not only demonstrates the investment and consequential costs of fire protection boards, it also outlines the benefits achieved as a result of their use. For an exemplary tunnel it is shown that the use of fire protection boards could be an economically advantageous alternative.

  Recipient :

  Name ^* :

  E-mail address ^* :

  ^* Required fields

  Send   or  Cancel

• Print