{"id":7421,"date":"2024-12-02T16:53:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T15:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.structuralia.com\/eurotunel"},"modified":"2026-03-27T13:49:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:49:54","slug":"eurotunel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.structuralia.com\/en\/eurotunel\/","title":{"rendered":"La impresionante construcci\u00f3n del Eurot\u00fanel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-white ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\"><\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.structuralia.com\/en\/eurotunel\/#Construccion_del_Eurotunel\" >Construcci\u00f3n del Eurot\u00fanel<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.structuralia.com\/en\/eurotunel\/#El_retraso_en_la_obra\" >El retraso en la obra<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">En el verano del a\u00f1o 1987, como medida para dar soluci\u00f3n al comercio europeo a trav\u00e9s del Canal de la Mancha, los presidentes de Francia y Reino Unido firmaron un acuerdo para llevar a cabo la construcci\u00f3n del <strong>Eurot\u00fanel<\/strong>,\u00a0 una de las obras arquitect\u00f3nicas m\u00e1s grandes del siglo XX que comunica ambos pa\u00edses en tan solo 35 minutos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">La construcci\u00f3n del Eurot\u00fanel, que comenz\u00f3 en el a\u00f1o 1986 y termin\u00f3 en el 1994, ten\u00eda un presupuesto de hasta 4.500 millones de euros aunque finalmente super\u00f3 los 13.000 millones.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 30px; font-weight: bold;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Construccion_del_Eurotunel\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #b22b3b;\">Construcci\u00f3n del Eurot\u00fanel<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">En el proyecto del t\u00fanel ferroviario, Eurot\u00fanel intervinieron un total de 8.000 obreros de los cuales el 50% eran brit\u00e1nicos y el otro 50% franceses y, como en toda <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.structuralia.com\/construccion-de-tuneles-mecanismos-de-sostenimiento-del-terreno\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">construcci\u00f3n de un t\u00fanel<\/a>, fueron necesarios profundos estudios geol\u00f3gicos previos para llevar a cabo esta obra.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">La infraestructura cuenta con<strong> 3 t\u00faneles<\/strong>, <strong>dos de ellos, con unos 7,6 metros de di\u00e1metro <\/strong>est\u00e1n\u00a0destinados al transporte de personas, veh\u00edculos y mercanc\u00edas. <strong>El tercero, de casi 5 metros de di\u00e1metro<\/strong>, fue construido para realizar las operaciones de mantenimiento o para que sea utilizado en caso de emergencia. Los tres est\u00e1n unidos entre s\u00ed por 245 pasarelas transversales de unos 4,6 m de di\u00e1metro.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dentro de la infraestructura tambi\u00e9n <strong>existen cruces donde los trenes pueden cambiar de un t\u00fanel a otro<\/strong>, permitiendo as\u00ed la realizaci\u00f3n de las operaciones de mantenimiento.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">La construcci\u00f3n se enfrent\u00f3 a<strong> tareas muy dif\u00edciles<\/strong>, como la excavaci\u00f3n de hasta 153 kil\u00f3metros, en la que se utilizaron <strong>12 tuneladoras<\/strong> y fue necesario <strong>un mill\u00f3n de toneladas de hormig\u00f3n<\/strong>, aproximadamente.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">En total, el eurot\u00fanel tiene una <strong>longitud de 50,5 kil\u00f3metros<\/strong>, parte de \u00e9sta, 39 km, es submarina. Por ello, podemos hablar sin ninguna duda de uno de los t\u00faneles submarinos m\u00e1s grandes de todo el planeta.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: 1px solid #000000;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.structuralia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/eurotunel-8.jpeg\" alt=\"eurotunel\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 30px;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"El_retraso_en_la_obra\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #b22b3b;\">El retraso en la obra<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Al poco tiempo del comienzo de la obra, en marzo de de 1988, en el lado brit\u00e1nico tuvieron lugar<strong> fugas de agua marina<\/strong> a trav\u00e9s de los poros de las capas que se encontraban bajo el lecho marino y que expulsaban alrededor de 300 litros por minuto.<\/p>\n<p>Esto provoc\u00f3 un gran retraso en la construcci\u00f3n del Euro t\u00fanel, que finalmente se inaugur\u00f3 7 a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s del inicio de la obra, en 1994 y super\u00f3 el doble del presupuesto inicial adjudicado.<\/p>\n<p>A finales del a\u00f1o 2019, <strong>el Eurot\u00fanel celebr\u00f3 25 a\u00f1os<\/strong> present\u00e1ndose como una alternativa sostenible frente a las compa\u00f1\u00edas a\u00e9reas de bajo coste.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {<br \/>\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];<br \/>\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;<br \/>\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;<br \/>\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/es_ES\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.0\";<br \/>\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);<br \/>\n }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>En el verano del a\u00f1o 1987, como medida para dar soluci\u00f3n al comercio europeo a trav\u00e9s del Canal de la Mancha, los presidentes de Francia y Reino Unido firmaron un acuerdo para llevar a cabo la construcci\u00f3n del Eurot\u00fanel,\u00a0 una de las obras arquitect\u00f3nicas m\u00e1s grandes del siglo XX que comunica ambos pa\u00edses en tan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ayudawp_aiss_exclude":false,"_ayudawp_aiss_summary":"","_ayudawp_aiss_summary_provider":"","_ayudawp_aiss_summary_hash":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-educacion-stem-ingenieria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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