Deutsche Bahn uses an innovative contract model for the first time at the new Cottbus plant. The RSRG is also aboard.
Deutsche Bahn (DB) plans to construct its new ice maintenance plant in Cotbus by 2026 according to the innovative "partnership model rail". One of the first partners is the Rhomberg Sersa Rail Group. Arcadis Germany GmbH, Logsol GmbH and Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau AG are also contract partners.
Together with its partners, the Austrian-Swiss rail technology specialist is responsible for the traffic facilities, civil engineering, the railway infrastructure as well as the medium-voltage power supply.
For the first time, DB wants to implement one of its major infrastructure projects along with all parties involved in the new contract model.
The idea behind this concept is to implement the extensive and complex major projects quickly, to a high-quality standard, cost-effectively and on schedule by bringing the key project partners together as early as the planning phase.
Through early inclusion, all companies involved should be able to focus their full performance and innovation capacity on the optimisation, rapid realisation and efficient operation of the construction project. “This approach naturally suits our competencies as a full provider for all rail services,” explains Konrad Schnyder, President Owner Board of RSRG. “We can therefore fully support the holistic approach.
This allows us to make optimal use of synergies in order to reduce sources of error and friction losses to a minimum”.
Specifically, two maintenance halls for electric multiple-unit trains for the heavy maintenance stage of high-speed traffic are to be built. In both new halls, entire ICE trains of almost 400 metres in length can be serviced. The investment for this is about one billion euros.
