Washington - us/94SeattleWastewater The lowest bidder for the 35.4 km (22 mile) Brightwater conveyance system, east contract in north King and south Snohomish County is the Kenny / Shea / Traylor JV with a bid price of USD130,648,750. The followers are the Jay Dee / Coluccio JV (USD144,765,000), the Impregilo / Healy JV (USD151,683,000), Obayashi (USD152,500,000), the Kiewit / Bilfinger Berger JV (USD174,224,000) and the Vinci / Parsons RCI / Frontier-Kemper JV (USD188,740,000). The contract is for digging one section of a 20.1 km (13 mile) tunnel from the future plant to Puget Sound. It will include a 4,270 m-long (14,000 foot) 5.5 m-diameter (18 foot) tunnel from the North Creek Business Park in Bothell to the plant site north of Woodinville next to State Route 9, two deep shafts for launching and removing the TBM, installing four pipes in the tunnel ranging from 68.6 cm (27 inches) to 213 cm (84 inches) in diameter and fibre-optic cables. The tunnel will be filled with concrete after those installations. In addition, the contractor will dig a smaller 732 m-long (2,400 foot) 1.83 m-diameter tunnel from the North Creek tunnel portal to the existing North Creek pump station and excavate a smaller shaft for a new Brightwater pump station. The project is scheduled to begin in early 2006. After tunnelling is completed, another contractor will build a pump station for sending wastewater to the Brightwater plant.King County will advertise two more tunnelling contracts in 2006. Total construction cost for the wastewater conveyance system is an estimated USD705 million. More in E-News Weekly 44/2005. Visit http://dnr.metrokc.gov/wtd/brightwater and www.ecy.wa.gov 44/05.King County has awarded its first contract for the USD1.5 billion Brightwater wastewater treatment plant. The Kenny Construction / J.F. Shea / Traylor JV has received a USD131 million contract to build the eastern segment of the plant's sewer line system. The 4,270 m-long tunnel will extend from the North Creek Business Park in Bothell to the plant site at Highways 9 and 522 north of Woodinville. Construction is to begin in spring. A TBM will be used to create a tunnel about 5.5 m in diameter at depths of up to 80 m below the surface. The work will include excavating a 22.5 m-deep shaft that will be used to launch the TBM, installing four pipes in the tunnel ranging from 68 cm to 2.1 in diameter, and installing three fibre-optic cables for monitors. Click us/94. Read E-News Weekly 44/2005. Visit www.kennyconstruction.com, http://jfshea.com and www.traylor.com 02/06.The Kenny / Shea / Traylor JV has purchased a 5.8 m-diameter Lovat EPB TBM to be delivered in June 2007 to build a 4.3 km portion of King County's 23 km Brightwater tunnel from North Creek to the Brightwater treatment plant. The TBM RME229SE will be mixed-face with a dressing of 32 ripper teeth, interchangeable with 12" twin tip disc cutters. The cutting head will be powered by four 300 kW hydraulic drive motors which will provide the cutting head with 2,900 to 6,500 kNm of torque from 1.8 rpm to 4 rpm. The machine will have a maximum propulsion thrust of 4,100 tonnes at 340 bar and a stroke of 2.3 metres. Operating at up to 3 bar, the TBM will feature a two-stage 91 cm-diametre screw conveyor.The project involves construction of two 25 m shafts (for TBM launching and retrieval) and a 5.1 metre ID tunnel comprised of rings of prefabricated reinforced concrete segments (4 pieces + 2 keys per ring). The tunnel alignment will range from a depth of 12 to 82 metres and have water levels above the tunnel invert ranging from 9 to 32 metres. The TBM is expected to encounter sedimentary deposits comprised of fine to medium sands with organic silts, coarse sands and gravel with some clays and scattered boulders. Visit www.lovat.com 30/06.Invitation to tender, deadline 21st September, 2006 for the USD105.4 million west tunnel of the Brightwater conveyance system (section 4), which consists of the construction of approx. 6,430 metres of 3.96 m minimum diameter segment lined tunnel, 762 metres of which is secondarily lined to a 3.05 m minimum diameter, 165 metres of 1.52 m microtunnelled effluent sewer, and one portal structure 15.2 m deep for launching a TBM. Also in the contract is the construction of a sampling facility. Visit www.metrokc.gov/procurement/rfpdocs/2006/July/Construction/C00007C06/C00007C06.pdf or contact King County, tel. +1 2062633735, fax +1 2066841486, e-mail crystal.graham@metrokc.gov 36/06.French construction and concessions group Vinci Construction Grands Projets, in JV with Parsons RCI (20%) and Frontier-Kemper Constructors (20%), has won a USD209.7 million contract from King County to build two tunnels in south Snohomish and north King counties in the US state of Washington. The tunnels are part of the central portion of the 26 km Brightwater conveyance tunnel, the region's largest clean water project in 40 years. The scope of work on the central tunnel contract includes building two tunnels, one from Kenmore to the North Creek Business Park in Bothell and another from Kenmore to Ballinger Way Northeast in Shoreline. The combined length of the tunnels is about 9.6 km. The joint venture, based in Montreal, will dig up one 6.1 km-long tunnel and another 3.6 km, which will both connect a wastewater management centre north of Seattle. Visit www.vinci.com, www.parsons.com or www.rci-group.com and www.frontier-kemper.comConstruction of the 4.27 m-diameter tunnels, which will be lined with prefabricated concrete segments, begins 28th August, 2006 and will last 51 months. Crews will use two 5.3 m OD slurry TBMs and will also excavate two deep shafts of 28 m and 63 m deep - one near the intersection of 80th Avenue Northeast and Northeast 192nd Street in Kenmore, and another along Ballinger Way Northeast in Shoreline - to launch and remove the TBMs. Pressures will reach up to 7 bars.The contractor will install six pipes in the tunnel ranging from 36 cm to 3.2 m in diameter along with two fibre optic cables to monitor Brightwater facilities. Portions of the tunnel around the pipes will be filled with concrete after those installations.In addition, the contractor will trench a smaller 1,036 m-long pipeline from the Kenmore portal to connect the new Brightwater pipes to the existing local sewer system using a combination of open cut and approx. 500 metres of microtunnel construction. Construction on the central tunnel is scheduled to be completed in 2010.The county has already selected Jacobs Civil to provide construction management services for the conveyance facilities. MWH/Jacobs Associates is designing the system as a joint venture and CDM is providing geotechnical work as part of tunnel design. Visit www.jacobs.com, www.mwhglobal.com, www.jacobssf.com and www.cdm.com 36/06.The east segment of the Brightwater tunnel construction, from North Creek to the treatment plant site on State Route 9, has been awarded to a joint venture of Kenny, J. F. Shea and Traylor. The contract includes approx. 4.27 km of 4.89 m ID tunnel containing four pipes and three fibre optic cables, construction of launch and receiving shafts, pump station excavation and shoring, and 731 m of microtunnel. Click us/94. Read E-News Weekly 44/2005. Visit http://dnr.metrokc.gov/wtd/brightwater/contracts/conveycontracts.htm 36/06.Three firms submitted bids for contract C00007C06 for the west segment of the 20.9 km USD1.62 billion Brightwater conveyance system. The apparent low bid submitted by joint venture Jay Dee/Coluccio/Taisei was USD102.1 million compared to King County's estimate of USD105.5 million. The other bids came from Kenny/Shea/Traylor JV at USD106.9 million and Kiewit/Bilfinger Berger at USD124.5 million.The contract includes a 6.4 km tunnel extending from Point Wells in unincorporated Snohomish County to Ballinger Way in Shoreline. The selected contractor will excavate a 15.2 m-deep portal at Point Wells to launch a tunnel boring machine. This machine will dig the 4 m-diameter tunnel and build the pipe underground without disrupting the surface.In addition, the contractor will microtunnel a smaller 164.6 m effluent tunnel about 1.5 m in diameter. Also included in the contract is the construction of a sampling facility in the portal at Point Wells to monitor treated wastewater going into Puget Sound. Construction is scheduled to begin in early 2007. Click us/94. Visit http://dnr.metrokc.gov/wtd/brightwater/index.htm 43/06.

Parsons Brinckerhoff has been named construction manager for two interceptor tunnels being built on the Sacramento River by Affholder. PB is responsible for providing complete construction management services, including contract administration, quality assurance, schedule, cost control, inspection, construction staking, and materials testing for the County of Sacramento. Visit www.pbworld.comThe USD44 million tunnels are part of the lower northwest interceptor project being undertaken by the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District in Sacramento. The project consists of two bored tunnels of approximately 4.6 m excavated diameter. The Northern Sacramento River Crossing is 598 m-long while the Southern Sacramento River Crossing (SSRC) is 631 m-long. The tunnels will be inclined downwards at 6% from deep shafts on either side of the river. The geology consists of alluvial sand, silt and silty sand associated with recent Sacramento River channel deposits, overlain outside the river levees by clayey soils representing river flood deposits. Two Lovat EPB TBMs will be used, equipped with a screw conveyor at the bottom of the cutter head. Method of muck transport on 6% grade as yet not defined. Lining with gasketed, precast concrete segmental linings installed behind the TBMs, while the twin steel carrier pipes will be installed inside the excavated tunnels and shafts, and the tunnels backfilled with low density cellular concrete. Other underground structures at the NSRC include a 10.6 m-wide x 45.4 m-long x 8.5 m-deep launching shaft and a 7.6 m-wide x 15.2 m-long x 14.8 m-deep receiving shaft. At the SSRC, a 10.6 m-wide x 45.4 m-long x 8.8 m-deep launching shaft and a 7.6 m-wide x 15.2 m-long x 8.8 m-deep receiving shaft. Notice to proceed for work start on 23rd July, 2004 with expected end in September 2006. Visit www.lowernorthwest.com and www.lovat.com 29/04.A USD19.3 million construction contract was awarded to Affholder on 13th October, 2004 for construction of a 2,379 m 1.83 m-diameter gravity pipeline, a project known as Bradshaw Interceptor, section 8. Depth of installation averages 10.7-12.2 m to the invert of the pipe. The entire pipeline will be installed in a tunnel (two-pass tunnel in soft ground construction). Excavated diameter for the initial lining is 3.07 m diameter. Much of the area along the Bradshaw 8 alignment has been dredged for gold. Local dredging operations varied between 6.1-9.15 m in depth. Geotechnical data indicated the presence of coarsed-grained soil mixture, typically containing cobbles (7.62 to 30.5 cm in diameter) with occasional boulders up to 45.7 cm in size. The tunnel boring zone, which is below the dredged areas, is consisted of fined-grained soils with medium dense to very dense combination of sands, silts, and clays. The ground water level is much deeper at about 19.8-21.3 m below ground surface. However, perched water was found at the tunnel boring zone during soil borings. Notice to proceed with construction is set for 15th November, 2004. Because of mobilisation and construction of a launching shaft, approximately 9 m in diameter and 14 m deep, tunnelling will not start until January or February 2005. The contractor has 560 calendar days to finish the project in June 2006. Designer is Montgomery Watson Harza. Visit www.srcsd.com/prj-bradshaw-8.html and www.insituform.com/corporate/corp_affholder.html 47/04.

Award to Parsons Brinckerhoff of Caltrans contract for design of 1.27 km-long x 15 m-diameter fourth tube at Caldecott on Route 24 between San Francisco, Alameda County and Contra Costa County together with upgraded operations centre. Visit www.pbworld.com 18/02.

AECOM/Arup jv appointed for engineering services on £5.6 billion Second Avenue Subway System project in Manhattan, accelerated after the events of 11th September, 2001. New 13 km subway line with 15 stations to run under east Manhattan from 125th Street to the Battery at the island's southern end. Both cut-and-cover and bored tunnelling in clays and hard rock with connections to unused tunnels built in the 1960s. Visit www.aecom.com and www.arup.com 45/01. Plans for a Second Avenue subway line from Harlem to the southern end of Manhattan include 16 stations, several connections to other trains and a spur in midtown to link with lines running along Broadway. A preliminary MTA map shows the northern terminus of a Second Ave. line at 125th St. and Lexington Ave., with connections to the 4, 5 and 6 trains and the Metro-North Railroad. Stops would be at 116th, 106th, 96th, 86th, 72nd, 54th-57th, 42nd, 34th, 23rd, 14th, Houston and Grand Streets., followed by Chatham Square. Two more stops south of the Brooklyn Bridge would follow, but the locations have not been determined. The federal government has allowed the MTA to begin preliminary engineering. Project to involve cut-and-cover construction but officials underground boring to be used as much as possible. Construction time estimated at 15 years for a cost of $12 billion. Begin of construction by end of 2004. Visit www.mta.nyc.ny.us/planning/sas/index.html 04/02.Vollmer Associates has been selected by MTA Capital Construction Corporation (MTACC) as the prime design consultant on the design/build team of Schiavone Construction and Granite Halmar Construction, a joint venture for the new South Ferry terminal structural box. The project consists of design and construction of the structural box for the new South Ferry station on metro line 1 in lower Manhattan. The new terminal station will consist of two tracks and a 10-car-length centre island platform. The station will replace the existing substandard 5-car length station. The proposed approach tunnel and station will be constructed underneath three existing metro tunnels. Valued at over USD200 million, the project begins with modifications to be made at the existing metro tunnel under Greenwich Street, north of Battery Place so that the new tunnel can diverge to the west and proceed beneath a portion of Battery Park and then cross beneath the existing tunnel approach to the South Ferry loop tracks, and beneath the Line 4/5 metro tunnel to Brooklyn. The new station alignment will continue adjacent to State Street and terminate under Peter Minuit Plaza in front of the newly constructed Whitehall Ferry terminal. When completed in 2007, the new station will allow increased throughput and therefore increase the overall capacity of the entire 7th Avenue/Broadway Line. Visit www.lowermanhattan.info, www.mta.info/capconstr/sft and www.vollmer.com 26/05.A joint venture named S3 Tunnel Constructors comprising Skanska USA Civil (37.5%), Schiavone Construction (37.5%) and J.F. Shea Construction (25%) has been contracted by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to manage and carry out construction of the new Second Avenue subway line in New York City on Manhattan's East Side. The contract amount is USD337 million. The contract is for construction of a 245 m-long by 23 m-wide launch box between 92nd and 95th streets, which will be the future 96th Street Station. Two parallel, 4 km-long train tunnel shafts will be advanced from this box, from 92nd to 63rd streets, using a TBM. Also included in the first contract is the construction of two access shafts at 69th Street and 72nd Street for the construction of the 72nd Street Station. Part of the approximately 100,000 cubic metres of the soil and rock to be excavated is contaminated and must be treated in an environmentally correct manner. Also included in the contract are extensive utility relocation and construction, temporary road decking and an electricity substation. Construction will begin immediately and is scheduled to be completed during 2010. Work on the new subway line is divided into four phases, of which this is start of the first. The Second Avenue line will be a total of 14 km long and relieve congestion on the Lexington Avenue line, which carries more than one million passengers daily. Read E-News Weekly 39/2006. Visit www.skanska.com, www.schiavoneconstruction.com, www.jfshea.com and www.mta.info/capconstr/sas/index.html 14/07.The MTA Capital Construction Company has awarded a contract to Parsons Brinckerhoff to provide construction management services for the first phase of the Second Avenue subway project. The Second Avenue subway will include a two-track line along Second Avenue from 125th Street to the Financial District in Lower Manhattan. It will also include a connection to existing subway lines. Sixteen new stations will be constructed.As the construction management consultant, PB will provide resident engineering and inspection services. The firm will be responsible for design/constructability reviews, contract management and administration, project controls, value engineering, utility coordination, maintenance and protection of traffic, commissioning and startup, and project close out. The company will manage the contract interfaces for six concurrent construction contracts.Phase 1 of the project involves construction of twin tunnels from 96th Street to 63rd Street. A tunnel boring machine will bore one tunnel from 96th to 63rd streets and a second tunnel from 96th to 72nd streets. The remainder of the second tunnel from 72nd to 63rd streets will be constructed using the drill-and-blast method. Three new stations will be constructed and the rehabilitation of the 63rd Street station will enable the new line to connect to existing service. This project phase also entails the launch box for the TBMs, two access shafts, and installation/integration of all systems components. Construction of phase one is scheduled for completion in 2013. Read E-News Weekly 17/2007 & 39/2006. Visit www.pbworld.com 34/07.

The following submitters have been short-listed for the Alaskan Way viaduct replacement, now known as SR 99 bored tunnel design-build project, in Seattle, WA. They are: Seattle Tunnel Group (STG) comprising S A Healy/FCC/Parsons/Halcrow; AWV Joint Venture (KBB) comprising Kiewit Pacific/Bilfinger Berger/AECOM; Vinci/Traylor/Skanska (VTS JV) with Arup; Seattle Tunnel Partners (STP) comprising Dragados-USA and HNTB Corporation. Draft version of Request for Proposal (RFP) to be released to Proposers on 26.02.2010. Technical contact is Brian Nielsen of WSDOT. More at www.wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/Viaduct/. For project background visit tunnelbuilder archive us/69. 07/10.

2.7 km-long second phase of Muni Metro under design from Caltrain terminal at Third and King St with four stations at Moscone Center, Market St, Union Square and Chinatown for San Francisco Municipal Railway. Visit www.muni.sfgov.org 34/01.The Municipal Transportation Agency of San Francisco awarded a contract to the joint venture of Parsons Brinckerhoff and PGH Wong Engineering Inc. to design an extension of the Muni Metro Third Street light rail transit (LRT) line. The project includes 2.7 km of tunnel through downtown San Francisco, four underground stations and one surface station. Services include conceptual and preliminary engineering, cost estimating, analysis of the existing EIR/EIS public outreach and contracting strategy. Conceptual and preliminary design is scheduled for completion in 2005, with construction starting shortly thereafter. Visit www.muni.sfgov.org and www.pbworld.com 16/03.

Tenders expected September, 2001 for Gwinnett County 1.8 km-long x 3.4 m-outside diameter tunnel through Piedmont geology in mixed face and soft ground conditions. Visit www.jjg.com 32/01.The Gwinnet County Department of Public Utilities has awarded a contract to Parsons Brinckerhoff to design a new wastewater transport and storage tunnel adjacent to Snellville, a suburb of Atlanta. As prime consultant for the project, Parsons Brinckerhoff is responsible for preparing a preliminary engineering report and conducting public meetings on the proposed design. The firm will complete final design and assist the county with the bid tendering process. PB will also provide construction management and engineering services during construction of the tunnel.The tunnel, which will be 3.66 m in diameter, will begin at the No Business Creek water reclamation facility and extend for 4,880 m to the shaft at the site of the existing Jack's Creek water reclamation facility. The project will enable the county to decommission the Jack's Creek facility by directing the sanitary flow from the Jack's Creek sewershed to No Business Creek by gravity. The tunnel will collect sanitary flow from another sewershed along its route, reducing power costs to the county by minimizing pumping.It will be driven in rock with a dewatering pumping station in the mining shaft at No Business Creek. There will be two access shafts along the tunnel length with sanitary flow admitted to the system at the upper shaft, at one of the intermediate access shafts, and at the dewatering pumping station. The upper shaft will also provide access and tunnel venting for odour control.Construction on the project is expected to commence in January 2005 with final completion scheduled for December 2007. Visit www.pbworld.com 02/04.The 4,880 m No Business Creek tunnel is still under design with 95% design complete. The tunnel will connect the 30-year-old No Business Creek and the Jacks Creek wastewater plants, that are being closed. Sewage will be pumped through to the F. Wayne Hill Water Resources Center near Buford. The tunnel will mostly follow Springdale and Everson roads, which run east to west, but it will also have to pass under private property. The county is in the process of acquiring subsurface easements from roughly 54 property owners. Finished inner diameter is 3.66 m. There will be four shafts: main shaft (12.2 m diameter and 55 m deep), exit shaft (7.6 m in diameter and 18 m deep) and two intermediate shafts around 4.6 m in diameter and 39 to 46 m deep. Bidding process to start in three to four months, with construction slated to begin in the summer of 2005. Very hard rock, mostly granite and gneiss. RQD some where around 35,000 to 45,000. 85% of the tunnel through hard rock and 15% through mix phase. A TBM will be used. The tunnel may need a maximum of 15% to 20% lining (concrete segmental rings, shotcrete and rock bolts). Mucking-out with loco and muck cars. Construction time to last 36 months, including all four shafts and one lift station. Visit www.gwinnettcounty.com 48/04.Gwinnett's Department of Water Resources on 19th March approved a USD54.2 million contract with a joint venture between Mole, Jay Dee, Kassouf and Murray Hill companies to build the 4,880 m, 3.66 m-diameter No Business Creek wastewater storage tunnel 60 metres below the surface. The tunnel, which will be bored with TBM machinery, will connect the Gwinnett County’s Jacks Creek sewage treatment plant with the now-defunct No Business Creek sewage plant site. From there, south Gwinnett’s sewage will be pumped to the F. Wayne Hill Water Resources Center in Buford. When the project is complete in 2010, the Jacks Creek plant will be shut down, as part of the county’s long-range plan to close its smaller, less-efficient facilities. Entrance shafts will be constructed at the No Business Creek and Jacks Creek water reclamation facility sites and also at the site with two intermediate shafts along the route. Crews will be drilling through hard rock 95% of the way. Click us/62. Visit www.co.gwinnett.ga.us, www.molecon.com, www.jaydeecontr.com and www.kassouftunnel.com 13/07.

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) has completed its evaluation of Statements of Qualifications submitted in response to the Request for Qualifications (RFQ) S20221 BART Silicon Valley Phase II Extension Program / Tunnel & Trackwork Contract 2.  

The Short-Listed teams, to be invited to submit proposals in response to VTA’s forthcoming RFP, are 

• The BART Silicon Valley Phase II Tunnel Partners (B2TP), a Joint Venture between Acciona Construction Corp USA (Acciona), FCC Construcción S.A. (FCC) and The Lane Construction Corporation (Lane), supported by Hatch Associate Consultants Inc. (Hatch). 
• Bay Valley Connect, a Joint Venture between Civil & Building North America (BouyguesTP’ssubsidiaryintheU.S.),VINCI ConstructionandBarnard Construction, supported by Parsons 
• Kiewit Shea Traylor Joint Venture, a JV between Kiewit Infrastructure West Co, J.F. Shea Construction and Traylor Brothers, supported by Kiewit Engineering Group and ARUP 

For further information please click here. Also visit  https://secure.procurenow.com/portal/vta/projects/6325. Ref.n. RFP S20221. 22/21. 

  San Diego County Water Authority will require a $125 million, 20 km-long x 4.2 m-diameter TBM tunnel from proposed San Vicente reservoir to carry 3 m-diameter steel pipeline to Metropolitan area of county. EIS complete and project under design for commencement 2002 using open or shielded TBM dependent upon the primary lining chosen. For contact purposes visit www.brierleyassociates.com June 2000.The San Diego County Water Authority has issued a notice inviting prequalification for the construction of the tunnelled pipeline referred to as the San Vicente to Second Aqueduct Pipeline project. The project shall transport water between the San Vicente Reservoir and the Water Authority's Second Aqueduct in an emergency and during normal operations. At the east end of the San Vicente to Second Aqueduct Pipeline, the pipeline will be connected to the San Vicente surge control facility. The east tunnel portal is approximately 3.2 km north of the City of Lakeside, and just south of San Vicente Dam. From this location, the tunnel and pipeline will extend westward below the Scripps Ranch community for about 17.7 km and connect with the Rancho Penasquitos pressure control and hydroelectric facility west of Interstate 15 near Mercy Road. The carrier pipeline is expected to be a 2.6 m finished inside diameter pipe installed within a 3.66 to 4.1 m-diameter excavated tunnel. The tunnel final lining shall consist of either welded steel pipe or reinforced concrete cylinder pipe. The final size of the tunnel and initial support systems are to be determined by the contractor. Design is scheduled to be completed in November 2004 and to be bid in January 2005. Construction is scheduled to start in May 2005 and to be completed by September 2008.The Statements of Prequalification Information shall be used to prequalify prospective bidders. The Water Authority intends to establish a list of qualified bidders from whom construction bids shall be accepted. Copies of the Notice Inviting Prequalification Information are available upon request from:Craig Balben, Contracting Technician, San Diego County Water Authority, 4677 Overland AvenueSan Diego, CA 92123. Tel. +1 8585226804. Project Fact Sheets and Order Forms are available at www.sdcwa.org 44/04.Traylor, in a joint venture with J.F. Shea, has been awarded the San Vicente Pipeline project located in San Diego County. This project, awarded for USD198 million while the construction cost estimate was USD161 million, includes construction of 17,454 m of 2.62 m ID pipeline inside an excavated tunnel with three shafts. The tunnel will be excavated using a combination of hard rock TBM, digger shields, and drill and blast methods. Ground support for the tunnel will be precast concrete segments, rock bolts, shotcrete when necessary, steel fibre-reinforced shotcrete, steel ribs and pipe umbrellas when necessary. Construction management and assistance in project management by Parsons Engineering. The pipeline project is scheduled for completion in 2008. Visit www.traylor.com, http://jfshea.com, www.parsons.com and www.sdcwa.org 35/05.Traylor-Shea battling hard conglomerate using its CTS shield on final 6.4 km drive from Slaughterhouse shaft, having completed just 2.25 km since April, 2007. 150 m/month reported currently being achieved in softer ground. 2.6 m ID steel carrier pipe under installation in completed sections of tunnel. For project history visit tunnelbuilder archive us/47 and www.sdcwa.org/infra/esp-sanvicente.phtml. 08/09.

Twin bore, four-lane, subaqueous road tunnel in design to connect Port of Miami Dodge Island to Route I-95 beneath part of the Intracoastal Waterway. Probable EPB job requiring one machine. Moving to final design and awaiting funding. Visit www.mrtunnel.com for more detailed information. March 2000.  Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) has been awarded the contract to act as owner's representative in the development of a cost-effective programme to link the Port of Miami with interstate highways I-395 and I-95. The project, which will provide improved port access for trucks and cruise passengers, consists of roadway approaches and two 3,000 ft-long (915 m) two-lane tunnels crossing under the main shipping channel between the MacArthur Causeway on Watson Island and the Port of Miami on Dodge Island, all located in Biscayne Bay.The tunnel will take heavy traffic off the streets of downtown Miami, thereby eliminating a source of congestion. Watson Island is a rapidly developing island in Biscayne Bay that is crossed by the MacArthur Causeway connecting downtown Miami to Miami Beach. Dodge Island is the home of the Port of Miami's cruise and cargo terminals. The cruise terminal is the largest, busiest cruise port in the world, serving over 3.6 million passengers in 2002.The project will be performed in several phases, the first of which is to re-evaluate the original study completed in 2000, including the alternatives of immersed tube or bored tunnel. Visit www.pbworld.com 51/03.Request for qualifications (RFQ), deadline 17th March, 2006 for a public-private partnership (PPP) concession sought by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to develop, design, construct, finance, operate and maintain the Port of Miami tunnel project. A shortlist of no more than four qualified bidders will be selected by FDOT in April. Those shortlisted will receive the Request for Proposals in mid June. Award of the project to the winning bidder is expected in December 2006. This is believed to be the first attempt at using PPP financing in the US market for this class of transportation infrastructure. FDOT is using Jeffrey A Parker & Associates and Asesores de Infraestructuras as joint financial advisers. Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas is the appointed consulting engineer. The project will link Interstate 395 and the MacArthur Causeway on Watson Island with Port of Miami facilities on Dodge Island. Read E-News Weekly 46/2004, 45/2003 & 13/2003. Visit www.portofmiamitunnel.com/Documents/06-0216-RFQ-Final.pdf 10/06.The Florida Department of Transportation is extending the deadline to 12th April, 2006 for submission of Requests of Qualifications (RFQ) for its Port of Miami tunnel project, through which it intends to select a candidate that will design, finance, build, operate and maintain the Port of Miami tunnel. The Florida Department of Transportation is also releasing a supplement to its Project Information Memorandum (PIM) which has been provided to help prospective bidders understand the project as well as the state transportation agency's approach to it. The PIM is not a binding document and information within it may change as aspects of the project become further refined. Prospective bidders can obtain the RFQ, RFQ addenda and PIM supplement on the project website www.portofmiamitunnel.com 14/06.The three shortlisted consortia by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) for the Port of Miami tunnel are FCC Construccion and Morgan Stanley, including FCC, Morgan Stanley, Hatch Mott MacDonald and Edwards & Kelcey; Miami Access Tunnel, with Bouygues Travaux Publics and Dutch bank ABN Amro; and Miami Mobility Group, including Dragados Concesiones de Infraestructuras and its subsidiary Dragados USA, Brazil's Odebrecht Investimentos em Infra-Estructura, its subsidiary Odebrecht Construction, and US companies Parsons Transportation Group and DMJM Harris.The three consortia will be requested to submit their financial and technical bids next June. The winner of the tender will be disclosed in December. The project, estimated at USD1 billion, is to design, build, finance and operate the tunnel, which will provide a direct access between Dodge Island and interstate highways I-395 and I-95 and offer an alternative to the port bridge which is currently the unique connection. The project, which is expected to be completed in 2012, will be developed using a public-private partnership (PPP) concession. Click us/43. Visit www.portofmiamitunnel.com/Documents/Shortlisted-firms.pdf 19/06.Technical bids from the three construction firms competing to design, finance, construct, operate and maintain the tunnel connecting Watson Island to the Port of Miami-Dade were unveiled on 3rd April, 2007. The lowest of the three ''maximum availability payments'' (MAPs) - maximum yearly costs based on the construction firm meeting specific goals - was USD33.2 million a year from Miami Access Tunnel including Bouygues Travaux Publics and their Canadian financing partners, Babcock & Brown Infrastructure Group US, which said it would take 47 months to build the tunnel. That was followed by a 50-month construction plan with yearly payments of USD39.7 million from Miami Mobility Group including Spain's ACS Infrastructure Development, Dragados USA, Brazil's Odebrecht Construction, Parsons Transportation Group, and DMJM Harris. The high MAP came from Spain's FCC Construccií³n, Morgan Stanley investment bank, Hatch Mott MacDonald and Edwards & Kelcey at USD63.2 million. That company said it could complete the project in 42 months.The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) will pay the winning team USD100 million based on milestones during the 42 to 50-month construction phase and the remainder after completion, when the first truck rumbles through the tunnel. The winning firm will be required to finance the project, then be repaid by FDOT and the Miami-Dade County over a 35-year period.The tunnel project would run from the west end of the MacArthur Causeway, burrow under Watson Island, cut across Government Cut and pop up at the port. The plan still needs Miami-Dade County commission approval to move forward. Construction could begin as early as next spring. Read E-News Weekly 11/2007, 35/2005 & 46/2004. Visit www.portofmiamitunnel.com 16/07.The Florida Department of Transportation selected on 2nd May, 2007 Miami Access Tunnel, a consortium headed by the French construction giant Bouygues Publics Travaux, global investment bankers Babcock & Brown, Jacobs Engineering and Australian transport operators Transfield Services to finance, design, build and operate the Port of Miami tunnel. The team will be repaid by the state of Florida and local governments under a 35-year concession agreement that could be negotiated later this year. The tunnel is designed to improve access to the port from the expressway and remove thousands of trucks from the street grid near the downtown core where high-rise condos, museums, parks and cultural centres are emerging.A lot of variables still need to be hashed out, especially local governments' part in the financing, but under a couple of best-case scenarios, the tunnel could be under construction by next year and open in 2012. The state is waiting for Miami-Dade County and the city of Miami to firmly guarantee they will cumulatively pay around USD450 million for their half of the construction and a major contingency fund out of existing gas and growth-management taxes, bonds and port fees. Click us/43. Visit www.portofmiamitunnel.com 19/07.The consortium Miami Access Tunnel was chosen in May, 2007 by Florida Department of Transportation to finance, design, build and operate the Port of Miami tunnel, a project that has been mooted since March, 2000, see tunnelbuilder archive us/43. On 12.12.2008 DBOT decided not to close this deal after consortium member Babcock & Brown failed to raise the necessary finance, visit www.portofmiamitunnel.com. This project will now probably be rebid. 08/09.