The BTS evening meeting of June 2025 provided a briefing on Prague Metro Line D from Petr Makasek, Head of Tunnel Department, Mott MacDonald Czech Republic. The focus was on station design, especially for a mined large rock cavern. Here, Petr kindly provides T&T with a written report of his lecture.
The June 2025 evening BTS talk described the design to date of the stations for Prague Metro Line D with special focus on the complex Nové Dvory station. The talk was presented by Petr Makasek, Head of Tunnel Department, Mott MacDonald Czech Republic, who has more than 20 years of experience delivering underground works across Europe and beyond. At the time of the talk he was Project Manager/Responsible Engineer for Line D’s Nové Dvory station.
The mined station at Nové Dvory is an unusually large station cavern, incorporating: steeply rising escalator connections; a mid-station dome to enable two-way excavation of the station cavern; and, a pair of turnout tunnels supported by reinforced concrete (RC) pillars for future line branching. The lecture drew on preliminary and detailed design phases, outlining sequencing, modelling and verification approaches, and commenting on programme and procurement realities in Prague.
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