In collaboration with Sund & Bælt, Legoland is opening the exhibition in Billund this year, creating a Lego model of the 18km Fehmarnbelt tunnel using more than 800,000 Lego bricks.
Sund & Bælt and Legoland have joined forces to tell the story of the tunnel’s construction in a new and fun way. One of the goals is to get more young people interested in vocational training and, in the long term, attract more apprentices to the construction industry.
“At Sund & Bælt, we are committed to educating the workforce of the future. The Fehmarnbelt project alone will train several hundred apprentices, but young people are in high demand today,” said Sund & Bælt CEO Mikkel Hemmingsen. “By partnering with Legoland, we hope to inspire young people in a fun and engaging way to explore the opportunities within vocational training.”
The Fehmarnbelt tunnel exhibition is currently being assembled in Miniland at Legoland in Billund and will open in June. Miniland is a large area in the middle of the park with miniature versions of famous cities, buildings, monuments and infrastructure from around the world built from Lego bricks.
The tunnel construction site model will cover an area of more than 250m2 and include the tunnel factory, work vessels, immersion of tunnel elements and local landmarks from both Lolland-Falster and northern Germany.
At the real construction site, the first nine of the tunnel’s 89 tunnel elements have been cast. The first element is expected to be immersed this year.
When completed, the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel will have a dual carriageway in each direction and two electrified railway tracks for high-speed trains. It will take 10 minutes to drive from Denmark to Germany by car and seven minutes by train. The tunnel will make it possible to travel by train between Hamburg and Copenhagen in just 2.5 hours.
