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This week there are 8 new tenders, 6 awards and 4 new news items and 1 pre-qualification. WEEK 05 Email:- sam@tunnelbuilder.com Safety News
Telvent tunnel management system for Brazil
3.02. 2010 Spanish IT firm Telvent will install a tunnel management system on the El Morro Alto tunnels in Brazil to enhance safety and reduce accidents. Under the EUR14.5m deal with Brazilian Transportation and Infrastructures Authority (DNIT), the company will provide its Telvent SmartMobility tunnel solution. This is based on Telvent's Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition technology, which allows NFM Technologies improves on Spanish record
3.02. 2010 When TBMs of sizes greater than 9 m-diameter complete more than a kilometre in a month, the talk turns to records. NFM Technologies already held the Spanish record of 1,012 m with a ten year-old machine, La Adelantada, at Madrid Metro in 2006. Last year, at Sotiello tunnel, part of the Pajares complex in northern Spain, 1,140 m was achieved by another of their TBMs in one month, rewriting the Salerno-Reggio Calabria motorway A3 design approval
3.02. 2010 On 28.01.2010, Anas approved the executive design and the start of work on the third mega lot, third part of the Salerno-Reggio Calabria motorway A3 in Cosenza province. The section, from km173.900 to km185.000, includes five bored tunnels and one cut & cover tunnel. Investment is more than EUR226 million. The design contract was awarded in November, 2008 to JV Uniter Consorzio Stabile Arl and SELI opens branch in Hong Kong
3.02. 2010 The new SELI branch office at 28 Canton Road, Unit 408A - Lippo Sun Building, Kowloon, HKSAR will serve as an immediate reference contact for all the company’s projects in the Far East and Oceania. It will also enable sharpest market penetration and immediate assistance for all customers’ needs. SELI first exported its technology to China in 1989 when it supplied a double shield TBM for Portugal court suspends Marao tunnel construction
28.01. 2010 Construction of the twin-tube 5,655 m-long Marao motorway tunnel on the new Amarante-Vila Real highway in Portugal has been suspended following allegations by a local water company that excavation work will pollute the groundwater. Concessionaire Auto-Estrada do Marao and Infratunel, the construction consortium of Somague and MSF, are appealing the court decision. Visit tunnelbuilder archive Work starts on Caldecott fourth tube
28.01. 2010 Caldecott tunnel is on Route 24 between Oakland and Orinda in California, US. It handles 160,000 vehicles/day through its three tubes, and is overloaded. Work is starting this month on the initial contracts of the four-year, USD420 million, 1,078 m-long fourth tube project to alleviate congestion. Some USD197.5 million of the cost is being provided the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Robbins EPB assembled at Mexico jobsite
28.01. 2010 Mexico City officials have celebrated the erection of the country’s largest ever TBM with a cutterhead turning ceremony. Next week, the 10.2 m-diameter Robbins EPB will begin driving a 7.7 km-long tunnel for metro line 12, the city’s first new route in ten years. Devil’s Slide improvement
20.01. 2010 Owned and operated by Caltrans, the Devil's Slide project is located on State Route 1 in San Mateo County between the City of Pacifica and the town of Montara, California. This project will bypass approximately 2 km of unstable geology using twin tunnels. The existing State Route 1 is subject to lengthy closures, high maintenance costs, and risk of permanent failure. Transdyn is providing a New guidelines for safety in Italian road tunnels design
20.01. 2010 ANAS has published updated guidelines for safety in Italian road tunnels design, with more information about Italian Risk Analysis Method and guidelines about new and existing tunnels. For the Italian text, click here. Visit www.lestradedellinformazione.it. 03/10. New guidelines for safety in Italian road tunnels design
20.01. 2010 ANAS has published updated guidelines for safety in Italian road tunnels design, with more information about Italian Risk Analysis Method and guidelines about new and existing tunnels. For the Italian text, click here. Visit www.lestradedellinformazione.it. 03/10. Bid Dates
Switzerland
Canton of Schwyz - ch/68 Motorways 19.03. 2010 Open invitation to tender, deadline 19.03.2010, for engineering services for management and safety equipment refurbishment in 1.14 km-long Mosi tunnel on A4, near Brunnen. For offers contact OFROU, attn: Angebot 080208, EP Mositunnel Projektverfasser BSA, Zofingue, tel +41 6274575-11, fax -90, e-mail beschaffung.zofingen@astra.admin.ch. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=014106-2010. 05/10... Spain
Bilbao - es/13 Metro 3.02. 2010 Pre-information procedure for installation of E&EM equipment in Ariz-Basauri section, on Line 2 of the Bilbao metro, in construction. Contract value EUR7,706,008, excluding VAT. Scheduled date for start of award procedures: 31.3.2010. Contract duration 16 months. Contact Basque government, att.n Iñaki Amondarain, Vitoria-Gasteiz, tel +34 945019754, fax +34 945019742, e-mail respcontract-trans@ej-gv.es. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=013499-2010. 05/10... Norway
Skatestraum - no/27 Fjord Crossing 12.03. 2010 Open invitation to tender, deadline 12.03.2010, for the Bremanger connection. The contract includes construction of a 4.8 km-long tunnel. Contract duration 07.05.2010 - 31.05.2013, estimated value EUR36.5-48.7 million excluding VAT. Contact Susanne Svardal at Statens vegvesen Region vest in Leikanger, tel +47 81544010, fax +47 57655986, e-mail susanne.svardal@vegvesen.no. Visit www.doffin.no/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=196088 and http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=018291-2010. 05/10... Norway
Vestfold - no/29 Railway 9.04. 2010 Open invitation to tender, deadline 09.04.2010, for construction of double-track tunnel of about 2 km, two escape tunnels of total length 830 m, and 1.4 km-long open zone track as part of the Holmen contract UHN03, double track Holm-Nykirke. Contract commencement 01.07.2010 for completion 15.06.2014. Further information, specs and docs from Hakon Bratlien at Jernbaneverket in Tonsberg, tel +47 05280, fax +47 91656276, e-mail brah@jbv.no to whom tenders or requests to participate should be sent. Time limit for requesting or accessing documents 09.03.2010. Visit .. Romania
Bucharest - ro/13 Metro 2.03. 2010 Invitation to tender using restricted procedure for lots 1.1 and 1.2, see above notice and visit tunnelbuilder archive ro/13 for details of lots. Contact is emil.serbanescu@metrorex.ro. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=027051-2010. 05/10... Romania
Bucharest - ro/13 Metro 3.02. 2010 The award procedure for the invitation to tender using restricted procedure, deadline 14.12.2009, for construction of the four lots: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4 of Bucharest metro has been declared unsuccessful. See new notice below. Contact Stefan Rotaru at Metrorex in Bucharest, tel +40 2131-93601, fax -25149, e-mail srotaru@metrorex.ro. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=009708-2010. 05/10... Norway
Nord-Norge - no/124 Roads 5.03. 2010 Open invitation to tender, deadline 05.03.2010, for framework agreement for electro-consultancy services and engineering design services for roads and road tunnels in North Norway. Six subtasks. Duration of the framework agreement is three years. Estimated value, EUR1.2 million excluding VAT. Contact Trond Albrigtsen at Statens vegvesen in Bodø, tel +47 75552942/91128269, e-mail trond.albrigtsen@vegvesen.no quoting Bru/tunnel-elektro. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=019803-2010. 05/10... Germany
Saarland - de/108 Railway 28.01. 2010 Prior information notice of impending start of award procedures on 02.02.2010 for construction work for renovation and enlargement of 476 m-long Spitzeich tunnel on Saar Light Railway. Contract duration 16 months. More from Oskar Gerhard Lafontaine at LRT Saar in Saarbrueken, tel +49 6815872-345, fax –418, e-mail g.lafontaine@ws-konzern.de. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=017772-2010. 04/10... Panama
Panama City - pa/13 Metro 28.01. 2010 The consortium of Pöyry, Cal y Mayor and Geoconsult were selected in October, 2009 to provide consultancy services and conceptual design for the first line metro in Panama City. .. Norway
Hordaland - no/123 Railway 23.02. 2010 Invitation to tender by negotiated procedure for engineering design and construction services for the upgrading of Arna-Floen railway including dualling of 7.67 km-long Ulriken tunnel between Bergen and Arna railway stations. Contract starts 19.05.2010 for completion 30.09.2015... France
Rhone - Alps - fr/56 Highway 5.03. 2010 Open invitation to tender, deadline 05.03.2010, for 30 safety by-passes for the A40, A41 and A11 Upper Savoy motorways. Contract duration 24 months. Contact M. Allegrini at ATMB, Bonville, fax +33 450252096. Specs and docs from Catherine Pasquier, fax +33 450252096. Send offers to Investment Direction Secretary. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=013530-2010. 04/10... Poland
Lodz-Masovia - pl/18 High Speed Railway 5.02. 2010 Deadline postponed again from 19.01.2010 to 05.02.2010 for invitation to tender using restricted procedure for construction of Stage 2, Lot B2 of modernization of Warsaw-Lodz railway line, comprising 16.5 m-deep Lodz-Fabryczna multimodal station with four 400 m-long platforms and eight tracks, and 1.6 km of underground access tunnels and rebuilding of infrastructure around the installation into an integrated hub... |
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