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Light rail construction work will create noise and vibrations in week 47

The ramming down of concrete poles along the light rail tracks will cause inconveniences in week 47 (the week starting Monday 16 November)

In week 47, the Light Rail Transit Project is expecting to start the work of ramming down the concrete poles to support the light rail’s overhead power lines. The work will start next to the University Hospital i Skejby and in Nørrebrogade between the university and the hospital. The concrete poles will be rammed down into the ground along the light rail tracks

 to a depth of between  3 and 5.5 meters. The work will cause some degree of noise and vibration, but not to the same extent as the ramming down of steel sheet piles which took place in Nørrebrogade earlier in the year, when the sheet piles were rammed 18 meters or more into the ground.

The work will take place over a relatively short period of time. The concrete poles will typically be placed 25 meters apart, and one or two poles will be put in place per hour. This means that the university is only expected to be affected by the work for two days.

Contact Mette Helm (tel 40 86 62 65, helm@au.dk) if the inconveniences caused by the construction work disrupt the universities’ activities to an unacceptable degree in week 47.