The Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) carries out the project "New Köhlbrand Crossing (NKBQ) - Environmental Planning".

In this context, the following environmental planning services are expected:

- preparation of approvals relevant to approval,

- preparation of supporting technical contributions relevant to environmental impact assessment,

- Collection of natural and environmental data in the planning area.

The Köhlbrand Bridge is expected to have reached its economic and technical life in 2030. In the summer of 2018, a feasibility study was completed for the technical examination of a replacement structure above the Köhlbrand in the variants bridge, bored tunnel and immersed tunnel.

As a result, the variants bridge and boring tunnel have prevailed over the immersed tunnel. Which of the two remaining crossover variants will be further considered in depth planning is currently being voted on. With decision-making, the preferred variant, including the traffic connection nodes, is further considered as part of a technical pre-planning (initially for service phases 1 and 2 (Sections 43, 47, 51, 55 HOAI)).

The Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) carries out the project "New Köhlbrand Crossing (NKBQ) - Environmental Planning".

In this context, the following environmental planning services are basically to be expected:

1) The preparation of approval-relevant reports in accordance with the statutory requirements to be observed (eg UVPG, BNatSchG, WHG, BImSchG, etc.).

The expected minimum scope of the reports to be prepared include:

EIA report; Landscape management plan including examination Species protection; FFH compatibility study and technical paper Water Framework Directive.

2) The preparation of supporting technical contributions relevant to environmental impact assessment.

Expected to be required for:

- Emission protection topics (air pollutants / TA-Luft.

Construction noise / AVV construction noise; Traffic noise / 16th BImSchV; Incidents / Seveso III),

- the natural resources soil and water (groundwater and surface water),

- the protected landscape.

3) The preliminary survey of natural and environmental data in the planning area (including terrestrial and aquatic mapping, possibly analysis of soil and water parameters).

This award procedure serves to commission first the service that is relevant for a sensible environmental support of the technical preliminary planning (Lph 1 and 2).

This includes:

a) landscape maintenance plan (according to HOAI § 26), Lph 1 and 2;

b) Special services within the meaning of § 3 (3) HOAI:

- EIA report (formerly UVS) based on HOAI Annex 1 paragraph 1.1, Lph 1 and 2,

- Additional expert opinions / specialist contributions (see above), provided that this can be reasonably provided in analogy to Lph 1 and 2, a basic assessment,

- Professional involvement in the development of detailed planning solutions for the crossing road as well as for the subsequent traffic junctions East and West.

After completion of service phases 1 and 2, the following services can optionally be commissioned in the course of the design and approval planning for the bridge or drilling tunnel variant on the basis of this procurement procedure:

c) landscape maintenance plan (according to HOAI § 26), lph 3 and 4;

d) Special services within the meaning of § 3 (3) HOAI:

- EIA report (formerly UVS) based on HOAI Annex 1 point 1.1, Lph 3 and 4,

- further expert reports / specialist contributions, if appropriate, to divide them into phases of service.

Corr. Lph 3 and 4

- Updating of natural spatial mapping and, if necessary, collection of further environmentally relevant data,

- other special services according to Annex 9 HOAI, in particular for process control and process-accompanying services.

It should be pointed out that the feasibility study, which was preceded by the preliminary planning, also already roughly examined, evaluated and compared the potential environmental consequences of the respective type of crossing (boring tunnel, immersed tunnel, bridge).

Furthermore, for the pre-planning phase there is a currently collected database (mainly 2017/18) of the faunistic and floristic relevant spectrum of species from the study area.