Pfunds, Austria – Monitoring of Natural Asbestos at Tunnelling works

The Inn joint venture power plant (GKI) on the Upper Inn River in the Swiss-Austrian border region is the largest new run-of-river power plant to have been built in the Alpine region for many years (approx. 400 GWh/year). At Mariastein b. Pfunds, a so-called window gallery is being built for the construction of the underground pressure pipe running parallel to the valley.n Determination of asbestos fibre content in ambient air at the forefront of tunnelling bore machine through air samples as well as material samples of rock substance for lab analyses on asbestos content.