Heissenbrücke: Again a bit more expensive, but soon ready

Created: 05/05/2022, 16:00

By: Christian Masengarb

Soon navigable: The Heissenbrücke is almost finished.

Also because the engineering office included too little gravel in the planning, the costs increase again slightly.

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The Heissenbrücke is another six percent more expensive in Fischbachau - also because the engineering office has miscalculated.

The bridge will be ready for this in May or June.

Fischbachau – At the most recent meeting of the Fischbachau municipal council, Mayor Stefan Deingruber (CSU) announced good and bad news about the new Heissenbrücke building.

The good news: construction is progressing.

The substructure is in place, the workers are currently installing metal girders for the roadway, and the bridge should be ready by May or June at the latest.

The bad news: the Heissenbrücke will be slightly more expensive because the engineering office has miscalculated.

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The additional effort is limited: the Heissenbrücke will cost around 20,000 euros more than the last estimate because the office did not include enough gravel in the planning of the access ramp and the Water Management Office (WWA) needs more material to secure the bank.

The WWA pays 50 percent of the additional costs, as well as the total costs of the project.

Around 10,000 euros more remain for the community.

"It remains the only addendum," assured the mayor.

"Then it's done."

The municipality should not outsource the additional work to an engineering office or construction company, said Deingruber.

The construction company cannot help it if the engineering office has miscalculated;

the engineering office is not liable for so-called “anyway” costs, which the municipality would have had to pay anyway for the flawless execution of the project.

The 10,000 euros remain with Fischbachau.

As reported, the costs of the new Heissenbrücke building had already increased significantly before the current addendum.

After the Leitzach had first undermined and then washed away the bridge, over which the Fischbachau premium hiking trail also leads, an engineering office estimated the new building at 220,000 euros.

In the first tender, Fischbachau only received an offer from a construction company that was twice as expensive. After the second tender in November 2021, the municipality awarded the contract for around 365,000 euros - around half more than planned.

Six percent more, but it remains the only addendum

In view of such numbers, the recent price increase can be coped with, said Deingruber.

The water management office told him that many projects had to pay three or four supplements, each of which was more expensive than Fischbachauer.

As reported, the costs for the safety work for the planned show mine in the Deisenried weather tunnel have recently increased by 90 percent.

Deingruber: “We can be very satisfied with the six percent additional costs for the Heissenbrücke.

Even if it's annoying."

Maybe so, said Bernhard Kafl (FWG).

Nevertheless, he expects estimates from engineering firms to be correct when local councils make decisions afterwards.

"Now you just have to accept the additional costs." That's strange.

Deingruber agreed, but stressed that if the municipal councils had known from the start that there would be additional work, they would still have awarded the new building.

"Had there been a larger price increase, we would have had a different basis."

Many local councilors shared Kafl's displeasure.

Nevertheless, they decided unanimously to pay the additional costs.

Second Mayor Martin Bacher (FWG), who uses the Heissenbrücke for his agriculture, said that the execution of the construction company was top.

"I'm just pissed off with the engineering office."