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Russia, Saint Petersburg - ru/26

Sewer

Prior information notice, published 06.05.2009, for improvement of collection and treatment of wastewater in the northern part of the city of Saint Petersburg, funded by EBRD, EIB and others. Project value EUR187 million. Tender process to commence H2, 2009. Further information from Dmitry Karlik at SUE Vodokanal of St Petersburg, tel/fax +7 812 326 5214, e-mail Karlik_DA@vodokanal.spb.ru. http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=124651-2009.19/09.



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Russia, Moscow - ru/25

Electricity

CSC Geoton of Moscow has purchased a 3.3 m-diametre EPB TBM from Lovat, model RME137SE, to be used to build the 1,800 m-long Gertsevo cable tunnel in the Strogino region of Moscow, beginning at the Gertsevo power substation. The tunnel will be used for 110-220 kV power transmission lines connecting the substation with the Moscow power grid. The TBM will be erecting 1 m-long rings, composed of six trapezoidal prefabricated concrete segments (ID of 3 m and OD of 3.4 m), with grouting through the segments. The anticipated geology along the tunnel alignment is glaciofluvial deposited fine and medium sands as well as loam. The entire alignment is below the water table to a maximum depth of seven metres above the tunnel invert. Lovat is providing technical services for the coordination, design, procurement, segment design and segment plant. The TBM will be ready to bore in January 2007. Visit www.lovat.com 33-34/06.



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Mostotrest JSC secured a $2 billion contract for the construction of the second and third sections of Kurortny Prospect double route running around Sochi. The second stage of the construction of a secondary road along Kurortnyi avenue in Sochi from Zemlyanichnaya Street to the Sochi river includes the construction of a four-lane highway (two lanes in each direction) with a total length of more than 5.5 km, which will include 13 bridges, pathways and flyovers with a total length of 4.8 km in both directions as well as three intersections on different levels and six tunnels with a total length of more than 4 km. The third stage of the construction of a secondary road along Kurortnyi avenue from the Sochi river to the Psahe river includes the construction of a 5.3 km long road, which will include two interchanges at different levels, a bridge and a flyover with a total length of 1.2 km in both directions as well as six tunnels with a total length of more than 5.8 km. Duration of the works 38 months. Visit http://mostotrest.ru/en/. 47/10.



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Russia, Saint Petersburg - ru/24

Highway

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.



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Russia, Saint Petersburg - ru/23

Highway

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.



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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.



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Russia, Moscow - ru/22

Highway

  2 x 1,505 m Silver forest tunnel under construction in Moscow by Mosmetrostroy using the Herrenknecht TBM previously used for the Lefortovo tunnel. It is a 2,600 t, 63 m-long mixshield, outer diameter 14.2 m, total installed main drive power of 3,200 kW + 315 kW for central cutter wheel, total installed power of 5,196 kVA and maximum thrust force of 120,000 kN. Geology is sand (nearly 600 m), then shifting to clay with inclusions of limestone and rocks up to 1 m. Concrete lining rings consisting of eight segments plus key, each ring is 2,000 m in width. Separation plant and slurry pipes by MS of France. Length of tunnel already excavated to date is 1,238 m with expected breakthrough date on first tunnel scheduled for 15th March. Visit www.herrenknecht.com, www.m-s.fr and www.metrostroy.ru 07/05.



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Russia, Omsk - ru/20

Gas Pipeline

Mostovik will bore 2.1 km-long x 2.67 m-diameter tube to contain Blue Stream pipeline to Black Sea coast in mixed ground comprising 170 Mpa sandstone of UCS 140, marl, gravel conglomerate, and soft argillites using new Lovat RMP105SE with arm type erector. Segments 1 m long x 200 mm thick with outer diameter of 2.54 m. Delivery this month for start early-2001. Visit www.lovat.com December 2000.



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Russia, Cheliabinsk - ru/19

Metro

Plans for first metro include 6 km of deep, 5.5 m-diameter twin-tube running tunnels and nine underground stations. Alignment is from the north-west of the city, through the historic centre, to the eastern districts. The line will pass deep below the water table through heterogenous formations of porphyrites and across a 1.25 km-long fault with unconsolidated, fractured rock with forecast water flows of 2,000 cu m/h. Pregrouting has been carried out from surface over the faulted area under the direction of the Urals State Mining Academy, details from Professor Lushnikova, fax +7 3432 519533. The tunnelling operation is awaiting federal funding. April 2000.



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Russia, Moscow - ru/18

Lefortovo Motorway

  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.  



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Russia, Kazan - ru/17

Metro

  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.



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Russia, Sakhalin - ru/16

Heavy Rail

Government indicated support for subsea tunnel to link island’s oil industry and ice-free ports into the trans-Siberian railway. Feasibility study underway to be presented in mid-2001. Sept 1999.  



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