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Division 3 worked on the railway in Tišnov following an accident. An express train had partly derailed the previous week. Apart from the train itself, a rail switch, safety equipment and overhead lines were damaged. To repair the rails in Tišnov, where division 3 also has an office, a new automatic tamping machine was used.

Daughter company SBT Sverige is carrying out the four-kilometre-long Skärholmen highway tunnel on the Stockholm road bypass, started in 2017. On July 20, the construction reached another breakthrough, which finalized work on the exacting section under Mälaren Lake. The two-tube tunnel should be completed in 2022.

The River City Prague complex in Karlín will be completed with two energy-efficient buildings, Mississippi House and Missouri Park, which will offer 20,000 square meters of offices. Division 4 is delivering heating and cooling, sanitary installations, ventilation and a stable fire extinguishing system for the Austrian developer CA Immo.

The reconstruction of the Přerov railway junction, where two corridor tracks intersect and form the so-called “Triangle,” is in progress. Since March, divison 3 has been working on the reconstruction of the 2^nd track in the almost three-and-half-kilometre-long section between Prosenice and Přerov, which was put into operation on 15 July. A subsequent reconstruction of the 1^st track will be carried out by December.

The newly built Dynín train stop was a venue for a ceremonial finish of modernization of a corridor track in South Bohemia on Monday, June 29. Construction, on 4-km long section of which division had participated since June 2018, brings higher speed and ETCS security. Also commercial director Jiří Tesař spoke at the event.

On Tuesday, June 23, works on an almost 15 km-long section of the Central Bohemia railway track were officially commenced. In addition to division 3, which will use its new machines, divisions 2 and 4 will be participating in the large construction. A ceremony with the traditional tapping of the rail, which took place in the Praha-Horní Počernice station, featured general director Ondřej Fuchs.

The construction of the double-track Milochov Tunnel in Slovakia, which is a part of the modernized Púchov – Považská Teplá railway line, is in progress. Division 1 started the complicated excavation three years ago and about 200 meters of the 1,861 meter-long tube remain. Breakthrough is expected at the end of August. The excavation of the emergency tunnel was completed in June.

Since last September, division 3 has been participating in the modernization and electrification of a seven-kilometer long regional railway line, a branch of the main Brno–Břeclav track. The project features railway technologies, reconstruction of the track substructure and superstructure, and both stations. Construction should be finished by summer this year.

Division 2 will repair the building of Bohemia Restaurant on the Exhibition Grounds in Prague. The Neo-Renaissance building, now listed, was built for the Jubilee Exhibition of 1891. The reconstruction, which will start in June, should be completed in one year.