An icon of St. Ivan Rilski – the guardian of underground builders and miners – was placed earlier today, 7-th of December 2016, at the beginning of the tunnel, which is to connect the metro station of the Zad Kanala City Theater to the station at the Vladimir Vazov blvd.
An official blessing was performed by Father Angel in the presence of the Board of the Directors of the company, representatives of Metropoliten EAD, the construction supervision of DZZD “IMI”, formed by Metroconsult EBG, Infraproject Consult EOOD, Infram AD, Infram EOOD and other officials.
“I am very excited that this wonderful traditions has been going on for 25 years now, for all 128 kilometres of tunnels, which our company has built”, said Eng. Arch. Valentin Trashliev – Chairman of Euro Alliance’s Board of the Directors, during the official ceremony.
The metro tunnel is being constructed based on the New Austrian Tunneling Method and its total length is 175 meters, with a cross section of 64 m2.
The project was assigned by Metropoliten and it is executed by Metrostroitelstvo – a joint venture consisting of Euro Alliance Tunnels AD, Trace Group Hold AD and Inj-Proekt Ltd.
