Work to resume using 6.5 m-diameter semi-mechanised shields on line 1 for 3.1 km from N Grigurescu south-east to Linia de Centura, and on line 4 for 4.7 km between 1 Mai and Laromet. Long-term flooding has damaged the reinforcement in the segmental lining of the previously-completed sections since insufficient funding forced 1996 abandonment. Also in preliminary design, new 8.6 km-long line 5 following completion of geological appraisal, and extension of line 4 to Baneasa airport. Visit www.tunele.ro for contact. August 2000.Invitation to tender by restricted procedure, deadline 15.12 2008, for construction of 8.4 km of tunnelled metro, including six stations totalling 1.2 km, estimated value EUR343 million. Contact Ing Rotaru Stefan, tel +40 21 319 3601-5402, e-mail srotaru@metrorex.ro or visit www.metrorex.ro 46/08. http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=291093-2008Restricted invitation to tender for 8.4 km tunnel with six 200 m-long stations, value EUR343 million, deadline postponed from 15.12.2008 to 21.01.2009. More from Ing Rotaru Stefan at Metrorex, tel +40 21 3193601-5402, e-mail srotaru@metrorex.ro or visit www.metrorex.ro. http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=321235-2008 51/08.Restricted invitation to tender for 8.4 km-long tunnel with six 200 m-long stations, value EUR343 million, deadline twice postponed from 15.12.2008 to 21.01.2009 and now to 23.02.2009. Visit tunnelbuilder archive ro/13 for background history. More from Ing Rotaru Stefan at Metrorex, tel +40 21 3193601-5402, e-mail srotaru@metrorex.ro or visit www.metrorex.ro. http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=015231-2009. 06/09.Restricted invitation to tender for 8.4 km-long tunnel with six 200 m-long stations, value EUR343 million, deadline postponed again from 23.02.2009 to 09.04.2009. Visit tunnelbuilder archive ro/13 for background history. More from Ing Rotaru Stefan at Metrorex, tel +40 21 3193601-5402, e-mail srotaru@metrorex.ro or visit www.metrorex.ro. http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=050240-2009 09/09.The awarding procedure for 8.4 km-long tunnel with six 200 m-long stations has been discontinued.More from Ing Rotaru Stefan at Metrorex, tel +40 21 3193601-5402, e-mail srotaru@metrorex.ro or visit www.metrorex.ro, http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=058734-2009. 11/09.

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.

Additional information for the restricted invitation to tender for the design and construction of the May1-Tokyo section of the M6 metro line in Bucharest (Lot1.1). The invitations to tender have been postponed from 02/12/2019 to the 06/01/2020. For bid documents go to www.e-licitatie.ro.

The value of the contract is EUR 266.88 million (RON1.27 bn), excluding VAT. The duration of the contract is 48 months. Contact Metrorex SA, attn Eng Marius Rudnitchi, Bucharest, tel +40 213193601/5467, fax +40 213125149, email alexandru.fieraru@metrorex.ro .For further bid/tender documents click here. Ref.n. 13863739_2019_PAAPD1049770. 51/19.

Invitation to tender, deadline 14th March, 2006 for completion of navigation opening C1 and tunnel in St Petersburg. The tunnel is for a 2 x 3-lane highway i.e. a total of six traffic lanes. The site is about 15 km to the west of St Petersburg as part of the 24.5 km-long flood protection barrier being constructed for the city. It is a 1.2 km structure, to be built with reinforced concrete boxes in the dry at the site of a future navigation channel. Construction commenced seven years ago but was stopped. About 60% of these boxes are already built, the remaining ones and all the joints have to be done. The existing boxes have to be rehabilitated. The channel will then be flooded once the tunnel is finished. Halcrow is designer and Royal Haskoning of the Netherlands is the project manager. Click here to know more about the project. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=034487-2006, OJ S 31, or contact Federal Agency for Construction, Housing and Communal Infrastructure (Rosstroy), tel. +7 4959808210, fax + 7 4959808211, or Geningconsult, tel. +7 4959377180, fax +7 4959377181. 08/06.

Sistema Gals has won the tender to design the Orlovsky toll tunnel under the river Neva in St. Petersburg. The contract has a value of RUR57.2 million. The project includes two tunnels, each 1.6 km long, between Orlovskaya Ulitsa and Piskaryov Prospekt. A 24-hour traffic connection across the Neva will aim to ease traffic congestion around the centre and to allow more time to open the bridges for navigation. The cost of the project is estimated between RUR9.7 and RUR11.2 billion. Tenders for construction are awaited in 2006. Read E-News Weekly 15/2005. 48/05.Open call for bids with prequalification, deadline 30th November, 2007 for the design, construction, financing and operation of the approx. 940 m-long Orlovski road tunnel under the Neva river, Smolnaya and Sverdlovskaya embankments in St. Petersburg. The tunnel starts on the left bank in the central part of the city near Orlovskaya Street, crosses the Neva between Liteiny and Bolsheohtinsky bridges and exits between Piskarevsky Avenue and Shosse Revolutsii. The concession term for this PPP project will be 30 years starting from the concession agreement signature date. The successful bidder is expected to be announced on 9th June, 2008. Project advisors are Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, the World Bank, Mott MacDonald and the Research and Design Institute of Regional Development and Transportation. Contact person for acceptance and keeping records of the incoming mail and for dispatch of replies and notices: Yulia Evgenjevna Dulskaya, senior specialist expert at the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, tel. +7 495 6269944, e-mail milovaaa@mintrans.ru. Contact persons at ZSD JSC to perform management and technical functions on behalf of the bid evaluation committee: Igor Alexandrovich Lukjanov and Evgenia Vitaljevna Khoroshavia, tel. +7 812 3803850, fax +7 812 3803851, e-mail office@wsd.spb.ru. Visit www.orlovtunnel.ru for more or e-mail office@orlovtunnel.ru. Read E-News Weekly 20/2007, 15/2005, 13/2004 & 32/2003. 39/07.

Revised schedule for bid procedure for 940 m-long Orlovski road tunnel beneath Neva river published at www.orlovtunnel.ru announces new bid deadline of 03.06.2009 with selection of successful bidder by 03.07.2009. Further details from office@orlovtunnel.com. For full background to this much delayed DBOT project visit tunnelbuilder archive ru/23 and see bid evaluation details at www.gov.spb.ru. 18/09.

  3.2 km three-lane motorway tunnel to be constructed using 14.2 m-diameter Herrenknecht Mixshield from recently-completed fourth Elbe tunnel in Germany. More from www.herrenknecht.com March 2000. Ceresola has stripped and refurbished the Elbetunnel concrete segment production line and installed it for Transstroy Corporation at its Leforto motorway site. Rings of 13.75 m o.d. erected by Herrenknecht EPB will comprise 8+1 segments of thickness 700 mm, length 2 m, and with maximum weight 18t. Visit www.ceresola.com and www.herrenknecht.com Sept 2000.  

  Lovat 5.63 m-diameter EPB will be used to construct 11 km of twin-tube metro in silt, loam, clay and sand at depths to 28 m and water pressures of up to 1.9 bar. Precast concrete lining comprises seven segments and key with inner diameter 5.1 m and ring width of 1 m. November 1999.Kazmetrostroy, in charge of building Kazan's metro, has ordered a second hand TBM from NFM Technologies. This machine will work with the first TBM already at work under the city, to bore a twin-tube tunnel as part of the first metro line. Kazan, capital of the Tatarstan province and located 800 km east of Moscow, is the eleventh city in Russia to build a metro. The network will be 42.4 km-long with three lines to be completed around 2025. The city of Kazan intends to inaugurate part of the first line for its century celebration in 2005.The EPB TBM from NFM Technologies will bore 1,790 m creating the bi-tube tunnel of the first metro line already under construction. The soil is mostly composed of sand and clay with a ground pressure less than 3 bar.In its plant in Le Creusot, France NFM Technologies is modifying one of the two EPB TBMs with foam injection previously used to bore the Copenhagen metro. The machine will be adapted to the working conditions of Kazan's project. This EPB was first built by NFM Technologies. The machine will be equipped with a new cutterhead with a diameter of 5.89 m. The first cutterhead was 5.71 m in diameter. The machine weighs about 650 tonnes. Visit www.nfm-technologies.com 44/03.A refurbished 5.89 m-diameter Lovat TBM RME232SE Series 14600, which recently completed the mini metro project in Moscow, is now boring 1,896 m of tunnel on the first line between Sukonnaya Sloboda and Ametievo stations. Her sister, a Lovat TBM RME226SE Series 17500, is driving a parallel tunnel. Visit www.lovat.com 22/04.

  Tenders to be called for first 2 km section of proposed light metro in 4 m-diameter tunnels from Kievskaya Square to Kutozovskaya Avenue for completion 2002. Extension under river to Dorogomilvskaya and Moscow City to follow for 2003. Last stage will interchange new metro with existing heavy metro. Longer term plan for three-line network with a circle and two radical routes linking Park Probeda and Nizhni Mnevniki to Lefortovo. March 1999.

Seven drill rigs supplied by Atlas Copco for the construction of four motorway tunnels to ease the movement of the millions of pilgrims who visit Mecca every year. The four tunnels, which total 2,930 m in length, pass beneath Mecca. As part of this project, RIO Trading & Contracting Co. has landed a USD42.1 million contract for the King Khalid bridge/El-Muayssem road expansion, including the extension of the El-Muayssem Road by 400 m and the construction of two 830 m-long horseshoe-shaped vehicular tunnels, the two largest tunnels. RIO has subcontracted the tunnel works to Turkey's STFA for USD26 milllion. Subscribe to E-News Weekly 40/2004. The other two tunnels have been built by Sargin Ekol Asdem, also of Turkey, with its local Arabic partner Alawi Tunsi Establishment. Visit www.atlascopco.com, www.boomer-rig.com and www.stfa.com 05/05.

Restricted call for tenders, deadline 29th May, 2006 for participation of interested tenderers in the eligibility phase for consulting services involving specification and preparation of base documents (preparation of tender documentation, constitution of Terms of Reference, etc.) for the preparation of studies, analyses, expertise, design documentation and general coordination of the preparatory activities required for the construction of the first LRT line in Belgrade. The foreseen duration of the consulting services is 36 months from the signature of the contract with the successful bidder. More details here. A first call for bids has been declared void.  The new LRT route length would be about 25 km. The first line has a length of 13 km, about 23% of which in tunnel, about 8% on bridge and about 69% at grade. The total tunnel section length is around 3.5 km, with six or seven underground stations. The first line has an estimated cost of EUR387 million. Contact Vladimir Depolo, Belgrade Land Development Agency, Unit for Projects Implementation, Njegoseva 84, 11000 Belgrade. Tel. + 381 113443020, fax +381 113440596, e-mail vladimir.depolo@beoland.com or lrt@beoland.com 17/06.

The Land Transport Authority (LTA) has awarded to Samsung C&T Corporation from Seoul, Korea, the EUR 380.69 million (SGD604 million) civil contract for the design and construction of Hougang interchange station and tunnels for the Cross Island Line (CRL), Phase 1. This contract covers the design and construction of Hougang interchange station and tunnels, as well as addition and alteration works to the existing Hougang station along the North East Line (NEL). 

Construction works for the CRL Hougang station are expected to start in the fourth quarter of 2021, with passenger service planned to commence in 2030. Click here and sg/30 for the tunnelbuilder archive. Visit https://www.lta.gov.sg/. 13/21.