Fachübergreifende und konsensorientierte Generalplanungen: VDE 8.1 Ausbaustrecke Nürnberg-Ebensfeld.

The paper illustrates the challenges in multiple engineering fields of general planning services for a complex infrastructure project, using the example of VDE 8.1 - railtrack extension/ upgrade Nuremberg-Ebensfeld. Part one gives a brief overview about the overall project VDE 8, which is followed by a showcase describing engineering challenges and solutions in the fields of railway facilities and civil engineering structures. Apart from the history of planning procedures, the 3rd part displays the idea of a synchronous, consensus-oriented design/engineering solution in order to promptly achieve construction permit and to finish planning works. In the final part an overview of “lessons learned" is listed that could be helpful in the future to simplify and to economise planning processes of prospective infrastructure projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]