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Underground—EMEA—Austria—Tunneling All of the excavation work is being carried out using conventional blasting; the only exception is the surge shaft, where a shaft is first being constructed using the raise boring method. For the construction of the different tunnels and the excavation of the caverns, DSI Underground Austria produced and supplied the complete range of required ground support products. This mainly included OMEGA-BOLT ® Expandable Friction Bolts, SN Anchors, the DYWI ® Drill Hollow Bar Anchor System, BST 550 steel spiles, lagging sheets, PANTEX 3-bar Lattice Girders and 57.5mm Ø GEWI ® Bars. Owner Vorarlberger Illwerke AG, Austria General Contractor Joint Venture OVW II, consisting of Porr AG, Jäger Bau GmbH, G. Hinteregger & Söhne Baugesellschaft m.b.H. and ÖSTU-STETTIN Hoch- und Tiefbau GmbH, all of them Austria DSI Unit DSI Underground GmbH, Austria DSI Scope Production, supply, technical support DSI Products OMEGA-BOLT ® Expandable Friction Bolts, SN Anchors, DYWI ® Drill Hollow Bar Anchor System, BST 550 steel spiles, lagging sheets, PANTEX 3-bar Lattice Girders, 57.5mm Ø GEWI ® Bars 27