On Sunday, September 25 at 21:00 the world premiere of the National Geographic Megastructures program "Korean Super Link" takes place on Dutch television. A unique event for National Geographic Netherlands, Strukton Civil and UMA.i productions. For the first time in history a broadcast of Megastructures is dedicated to a civil engineering project carried out abroad by a Dutch construction company. Strukton Civil is proud to be the responsible Dutch civil engineering construction company.

For the team of Strukton the immersion of the tunnel for the Busan Geoje Fixed Link was in many ways a special experience. The team was confronted with the sinking operating at open seas, in a very short time and under extreme conditions. Working under extreme and often restrictive conditions yielded a series of important innovations. These new techniques were innovative and pushed the emersion of tunnels to a new level. A prime example of Dutch craftsmanship.

National Geographic Channel International on Megastructures' Korean Superlink ': “A nation that never constructed an immersed highway tackles the challenge of building the deepest one on Earth. Everything about the project's super-sized. Each segment of the tunnel's mammoth is as long as two football fields and as heavy as an aircraft carrier. Yet all the segments must align within 35 millimeters - less than a thumb's width. To compound the challenge, all work HAS to be timed around the fickle weather of the Pacific. Itself and the tunnel must be bootable to with stand earthquakes and typhoons. Engineers will have to invent a raft of ingenious solutions - including a crane-like robot straight out of Star Wars.”

Strukton, in 2010, won the Professor J.F. Agema Prize for this project, the Busan Geoje Fixed Link, they also received an honourable mention from the Schreuderprize in 2009.

National Geographic Megastructures: Sunday, September 25, 2011 at 21:00.

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