Technical Tours
During WTC2025 in Stockholm we’ll be offering an array of technical tours around Stockholm to peak everyones interest: from a giant traffic tunnel to a historic mine to novel urban development to Sweden’s explosive past.
Stockholm City, Loudden
Urban development at its best showcasing the reuse of underground facilities. In an old industrial environment located in northern Stockholm, petroleum products have been stored both above ground in large cisterns and underground in large rock caverns. The rock caverns are now being cleaned up, then reinforced before new construction can begin above. Now we have the luxury of extra space in Stockholm, so what shall we do with it? Perhaps we can come up with an idea together?
This tour is split into a morning tour and an afternoon tour. You can select which one you’d like to participate in while registering for the congress.
Price: 300 SEK excl. VAT
Photo: Lennart Johansson Stockholm Stad
E4 Bypass Stockholm
One of the world’s longest motorway tunnels with 18 km of rock tunnel that connects the northern and southern parts of Stockholm. The project also includes 6 new motorway entrances built above ground. The tunnels have been excavated by drill and blast. During the tour installation work will be underway. The motorway will open to traffic in 2030.
Your participation may be subject to security clearance by the project owner.
Price: 300 SEK excl. VAT
SFAR, Stockholm’s future sewage treatment system
As Stockholm’s population rapidly increases, new and efficient technology is required to take care of the sewage water and create an environmentally safe solution. In the project, a 14 km long rock tunnel is being excavated between the Bromma treatment plant in the northern part of Stockholm to the Sickla treatment plant in the south.
Choose between visiting sewage system in Sickla or Henriksdal when registrering for the congress.
Price: 300 SEK excl. VAT
Dannemora mine
Iron ore has been extracted since the 15th century in the historic Dannemora mine. The mine is located approx. 1.5 hours north of Stockholm and has a depth of just over 600 meters. Sweden’s first steam engine was put to use here in the 18th century. In 2015, the mine was shut down, but now, after a permit processes, they are planning for a new start.
This is a longer day trip going outside of Stockholm.
Price: 500 SEK excl. VAT
Stockholm’s new subway
The Stockholm Metro was built between the 40´s and the 80’s. Since then, the metro system has been the same until today and is carrying one million daily passengers. Today, a major expansion with 18 new stations and 30 km of new subway is well underway and the first sections are due to open for traffic in a few years. You are invited to visit this mega project and we wish you welcome!
Your participation may be subject to security clearance by the project owner.
Price: 300 SEK excl. VAT
Epiroc, Test mine in Sickla
The old test mine in Sickla, a facility from the 1930s for testing rock drilling equipment and mining machines. The mine, which consists of approximately 3.5 km of tunnels on two different levels, is located in an area where a shopping center, office buildings and residences are directly connected. The tour will be a combination of a practical demonstration of the machines and a tour in the museum.
Price: 300 SEK excl. VAT
A stroll through Stockholm’s geology
Paul Evins will guide us through Stockholm’s complex stratigraphy that includes high grade gneisses, later granites and pegmatites and weakness zones. After lunch at the Botanical Garden orangery, we will take a leisurely stroll along the eastern shore of lake Brunnsviken near the Natural History Museum. Paul will describe how these lithologies influence the ongoing TBM tunnel and a planned passenger rail tunnel that parallel our stroll.
Price: 300 SEK excl. VAT
Epiroc Örebro Factory & Test Mine
Epiroc guides the visitors around their factory AVOS in Örebro, approx. 2.5 hours from Stockholm, where they are offered a tour of the factory, a Tele-remote demonstration and a look at what future developments have to offer. The visit is combined with a visit to Kvarntorp’s test mine where there will be a display of Battery loader and truck demonstration with a test drive on surface track, underground Loader and Truck automation demonstration as wel as a Boomer demonstration underground.
This is a longer day trip going outside of Stockholm.
Price: 500 SEK excl. VAT
Epiroc Fagersta och Orica Gyttorp
Epiroc shows the visitors their factory in Fagersta, 2.5 hours northwest of Stockholm. Here they will show you how the manufacturing of drill bits and drill steel is carried out. The tour is combined with a trip to Orica’s headquarters in Gyttorp, where you will be guided on a factory tour to see the detonator manufacturing.
This is a longer day trip going outside of Stockholm.
Price: 500 SEK excl. VAT
Vinterviken and the Nobel Prize Museum
A visit to the historic area where Alfred Nobel once had his business and factory for manufacturing dynamite. Here you can visit the old sulfuric acid factory, which today includes old blast pits where blasting experiments were carried out as well as other historic buildings that formerly belonged to the factory. The tour also includes a visit to the Nobel Prize Museum in Gamla stan, one of Stockholm’s most historical city areas.
Price: 300 SEK excl. VAT
Photo: objekt-ID: Stockholms stadsarkiv SE/SSA/Länsstyrelsen, Landskansliet/E5 volym 361