New network connecting Futian with Luohu and Xiangmi Lake will cost US$1 billion. Planning complete but funding delayed by high foreign exchange borrowings. Starting construction in October, 1999 for opening in 2003. June 1999. Ground-breaking for planned 14.8 km two-line network took place end-1998. East-West metro Line 1 will link new business district at Futian covering 413 ha to Luohu in the east and Xiangmi Lake in the west. Construction to commence in October, 1999 for 2003 opening. Planning complete, but awaiting financial go-ahead. March 1999. Construction commenced on first phase. Line now 14.3 km-long with 14 stations and to cost $960 million. August 1999. Work expected to get under way within months following lifting of State Planning Committee embargo on new metro construction which was imposed in 1995 to limit demands for foreign exchange. Most contracts must now be awarded to domestic firms and forex component limited to 30%. Sept 1999.  EPB TBMs on 1st phase underway by local contractors on one third of the total 20 km of tunnels. Stations are cut and cover or open cut, and there is also some traditional tunnelling. Systra-Sofretu are supervising engineers for client Shenzhen Metro Company for TBM works. First shield should break out of Yitian station early-June 2001. Visit www.systra.com 12/01.Arup and Beijing Urban Engineering and Research Institute have scooped a 6 billion yuan deal from metro operator MTR Corp. to design and supervise construction of the 16.5 km second phase of Shenzhen's metro line 4. About half of the 16.5 km line will be built in tunnel. The second phase, with nine stations and a depot, runs from Longhua south to Shaoniangong where it connects with the first phase being built by the Shenzhen Metro Corporation. When completed, the 21 km Line 4 will have 14 stations and run between the Huanggang border checkpoint and Longhua. A significant portion of the line will be elevated, with the remainder underground. Visit www.mtr.com.hk and www.arup.com.hk 23/04.Meinhardt has been chosen to carry out the detailed civil, structural, mechanical and electrical design together with geotechnical engineering for the southern section of the USD731 million second stage of Line 4. The contract was awarded by Hong Kong's MTR Corporation which has a 30-year concession to build the second stage and, once completed, operate the line. Meinhardt is responsible for designing the tunnels, which will be built with TBMs and drill and blast, and two underground stations. MTR Corporation is expected to invite design and build tenders next year for the main construction work. Stage two is expected to be completed in 2013. It comprises 16.5 km of double-track railway, most of which will be built underground. It will run from Huanggang, a western boundary crossing between Hong Kong and Shenzhen, to Longhua in the northwestern corner of Shenzhen. Stage one is being built by the Shenzhen Metro Company for completion by the end of 2008. Visit www.meinhardt.com.au 35/05.Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Co. (STEC) has won a CNY530 million contract from the Shenzhen metro corporation for the construction of a 4.8 km section of Line 2. About three kilometres of tunnel will be built by tunnel boring machine. Preliminary site clearance has just started on the CNY6.48 billion first phase of Line 2 that will link Shekou on the western side of Shenzhen with the Window on the World theme park where it will connect with the existing metro network. The 13.4 km first phase includes the construction of 11 stations including facilities at Shekou container terminal and passenger port and Nanshan. Read E-News Weekly 36/2007. Visit www.stec.net or www.tunnelling.cn 36/07.China Railway Group Ltd signed a contract worth around CNY9.5 billion with Shenzhen Metro Co. to build Shenzhen's subway line 5. Line 5 will cost nearly CNY20 billion. The construction period for the 42 km subway will be 42 months. The line, consisting of 29 stations, completes a loop of the city's underground traffic with other lines. It has interchanges with lines 1, 2, 3 and 4. Visit www.crec.cn 38/08.

Cowi A/S from Kongens Lyngby and Ove Arup Danmark & Partners A/S from Copenhagen have secured the EUR 20.15 million contract (DKK50 million), excluding VAT, for the technical preliminary design of the Eastern Ring Road/Østlig Ringvej in Copenhagen, including a submerged tunnel in the harbour and E&M equipment. The Ring Road will connect the Helsingør motorway in the north with the Øresund motorway in the south. The Fehmarnbelt connection tunnel element factory near Rødb could be reused. Contact A/S Oresund, attn Kent Raun Moritzen, Copenhagen, tel +45 25430316, email krm@havnetunnel.dk. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=074532-2023. Ref.n. 2022/PROVIA ID-N.84691. 06/23.

Major Fehmarnbelt immersed tunnel design contract, value EUR20 million excluding VAT, awarded to Ramboll-Arup-TEC joint venture of Virum, tel +45 45986-000, fax -700, e-mail ramboll@ramboll.dk. More from Steen Lykke at Femern Baelt A/S in Copenhagen, tel +45 33416-300, fax -301, e-mail sly@femernbaelt.dk. http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=135930-2009. 21/09.

Femern A/S has recommended straight 18 km-long, 41.2 m-wide x 8.9 m-high reinforced concrete five-compartment immersed road/rail tunnel proposal designed by Ramboll-Arup-TEC consortium of Virum, tel +45 45986-000, fax -700, e-mail ramboll@ramboll.dk for decision by Ministry of Transport early-2011 subject to acceptable EIA report. Visit www.femern.com for full press release dated 30.11.2010. For 10-year project history visit tunnelbuilder archive dk/14. 48/10.

Femern A/S has prequalified five entities to participate in the bidding for a consultancy contract on E&M systems in the Fehmarnbelt tunnel. The prequalified entities are as follows: JV í…F Hansen & Henneberg/Poyry Infra GmbH; Mott MacDonald Ltd; JV Ramboll/Arup/TEC; COWI A/S in collaboration with HBI Haerter AG, M&E Engineering, GBI Gackstatter Beratende Ingenieure GmbH, Barbara Consult and HOJ Consulting GmbH; JV Grontmij A/S/Capita Symonds Ltd. Closing date for delivering bids to Femern A/S is 28.11.2011. Click here. Visit www.femern.com. 44/11.

Femern A/S has prequalified the following companies to submit tenders for two framework agreements on client consulting services and technical in-house consulting services, respectively.

Companies prequalified for client consulting services are:

• CH2M HILL United Kingdom (UK), with NIRAS A/S (Denmark),Dr. tech. Olav Olsen AS (Norway) and Sellhorn Ingenieurgesellschaft mbh (Germany) as Sub-consultants;
• Rambøll-Arup-TEC Joint Venture (Denmark, UK, Netherlands) with WTM Engineers GmbH (Germany) and Schønherr A/S (Denmark) as Sub-consultants;
• Sweco Danmark A/S (Denmark) with Sweco Nederland B.V. (Netherlands) and Mott MacDonald Ltd. (UK) as Sub-consultants; 
• ÅF Infrastructure AB (Sweden).

Companies prequalified for technical in-house consulting services:

• CH2M HILL United Kingdom (UK), with NIRAS A/S (Denmark),Dr. tech. Olav Olsen AS (Norway) and Sellhorn Ingenieurgesellschaft mbh (Germany) as Sub-consultants;
• EKJ-ILF-GEO (Denmark, Austria);
• Rambøll-Arup-TEC Joint Venture (Denmark, UK, Netherlands) with WTM Engineers GmbH (Germany) as Sub-consultants;
• Sweco Danmark A/S (Denmark);
• ÅF – Hansen & Henneberg A/S (Denmark) with ÅF Infrastructure AB (Sweden) as Sub-consultants.

Click dk/14 for tunnelbuilder archive. Contact Femern A/S, attn Jens Villemoes, Press Manager, tel +45 33 41 44 27, e-mail jvi@femern.dk. Visit http://femern.com/en/News-and-press/2016/October/Femern-AS-prakvalificerer-til-bygherreraadgivning. 44/16

Femern A/S has been awarded to Ramboll-Arup-TEC a joint venture  (UK, Denmark, and Holland). Also includes WTM Engineers GmbH (Germany) and Schønherr A/S (Denmark) as Sub-consultants, the EUR115 million contract for the framework agreement for client consultancy services in technical areas for the Fehmarnbelt fixed link project tunnel. Please contact Femern A/S, att.n Anne Bogh Johansen, tel +45 33414449, fax +45 33416301, email ajo@femern.dk. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=108286-2017 and http://femern.com/en/News-and-press/2017/March/Femern-AS-underskriver-kontrakter-med-tekniske-raadgivere. 22/17.

COMET jv driving 3.5 km of tunnels using NFM TBMs; 1 km NATM; and 500 m cut-and-cover. March 1999.NFM reports its two 5.71 m-diameter EPBs have recorded best day of 53 m, best week of 154 m, and best month of 567 m on 5 day/week production. Visit www.framatome.fr October 2000.Negotiated procedure, deadline 4th December, 2006 for engineering related to multi-disciplinary civil works (MCW) and multi-disciplinary transportation systems (MTS) for the Copenhagen metro's Circle Line. These two notices to prequalify for the two main consultancy assignments mark the commencement of preparatory actions handled by Orestad Development. Six teams of consultants are expected to be prequalified for each assignment before Christmas. They will then be asked to submit tenders by February 2007 and consultancy contracts are expected to be completed by July for immediate commencement of the work. At the same time the legal acts behind the Circle Line project are being processed by the Danish Parliament. The present planning basis for the project is the preliminary studies completed and reported by May 2005, which are made public by the Ministry of Transport and Energy. The reports can be downloaded (in Danish) from www.m.dk under "Om metro", "Cityring", "Hent materiale".Both consultants will be the owner's consultant through the design and procurement phases including design follow-up during construction. The MCW consultant will act on civil works, building works and related road works, i.e. all tunnel and stations. The MTS consultant will act on all railway system facilities, the rolling stock and the control and maintenance centre (CMC).The Circle Line is 15.5 km long, all underground double tunnel plus 1 km connection tunnel to the CMC, also double tube. The diameter is expected to be 4.9 m identical to the present Copenhagen metro tunnel diameter. There will be 17 stations, all underground. Tunnelling will be, to the possible extent, within the Copenhagen limestone, but it will have to pass areas of different geology at some sections. TBMs are anticipated for tunnelling. Precast concrete segments were applied for the present metro tunnel within the same type of geology. Contractors are expected to be invited to prequalify in late 2008. The planned construction start is scheduled by 2010, for service by 2018. Approved budget is DKK15 billion with a 50% probability. For the MCW engineering contract, visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=213057-2006, OJ S 200, or contact Orestadsselskabet, Copenhagen, fax +45 33112301 or 39661060. For the MTS engineering contract, visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=213058-2006, OJ S 200, or contact Orestadsselskabet, Copenhagen, fax +45 33112301 or 39661060. E-mail asj@orestad.dk or pba@orestad.dk. Read E-News Weekly 49/2004. 44/06.Negotiated procedure, deadline 24th November, 2006 for a series of deep borings for sampling of geotechnical information along the alignment and at station and shaft locations. The programme considers 150-200 borings down to 50 m. Pumping tests will be made from a number of these borings. A further 50-100 borings down to 10 m will focus on sampling of environmental information. The programme shall be executed during 2007 and reported in two stages in geotechnical data reports which will be made available to the consultants for the Circle Line project. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=219804-2006, OJ S 206, or contact Orestadsselskabet, Copenhagen, fax +45 33112301 or 39661060. E-mail asj@orestad.dk or pba@hifab.dk. Read E-News Weekly 49/2004. 45/06.The five prequalified consortia for the civil works engineering for the City ring line, Copenhagen metro's Circle Line, are: City Ring Consultants including Carl Bro, FaberMaunsell, and Niras; Cowi, Arup, and Systra; LSI Metro Group including ISC, ILF, and Setec; Parsons Brinckerhoff, teaming with Sweco, DE-Conscult, Erik K. Jí¸rgensen, Al-Gruppen, and Skaarup & Jespersen; and Rambí¸ll allied with Atkins.The five prequalified consortia for the transportation systems engineering are City Ring Consultants including Carl Bro, FaberMaunsell, and Niras; Cowi, Arup, and Systra; MottMacDonald, ISC, Hansen & Hennberg, Setec, and Interfleet; Parsons Brinckerhoff, teaming with Sweco, DE-Consult, Erik K. Jí¸rgensen, Al-Gruppen, and Skaarup & Jespersen; and Rambí¸ll allied with Atkins.Bids will be submitted on 20th March, 2007. Contract awards are expected in June 2007. Click dk/12. Read E-News Weekly 49/2004. Visit www.m.dk/en/construction/future.htm 07/07.GEO and Per Aarsleff have been contracted to undertake a series of deep borings for sampling of geotechnical information along the alignment and at station and shaft locations of the planned Circle Line. The programme considers 150-200 borings down to 50 m. Pumping tests will be made from a number of these borings. A further 50-100 borings down to 10 m will focus on sampling of environmental information. The programme shall be executed during 2007 and reported in two stages in geotechnical data reports which will be made available to the consultants for the Circle Line project. Plans for the City Circle Line were approved by the Danish Parliament on 1st June, 2007. Then the project will move to the project basis and conceptual design stage with tenders planned in two years and construction with tenders scheduled in three years. Read E-News Weekly 50/2005 & 49/2004. Visit www.m.dk/om_metro/anlaeg/etape4/geoteknik.htm, www.geo.dk and www.aarsleff.com 35/07.A joint venture of COWI, Arup and Systra won the engineering contract for the multi-disciplinary civil works (MCW) for the circle line in Copenhagen. A joint venture of Ramboll, Atkins Denmark and Atkins UK pocketed the engineering contract for multi-disciplinary transportation systems (MTS) for the same line. The total amount of these two contracts over a 10-year period is in the DKK400-600 million range. Read E-News Weekly 49/2004. Visit www.cowi.dk, www.arup.com, www.systra.com, www.ramboll.dk, www.atkinsglobal.com and www.m.dk 43/07.Metroselskabet has signed a contract with LE34 for surveying for the circle line project in Copenhagen. Visit www.le34.dk 23/08.

Award of contract value EUR2.47 million to Ramboll/Arup JV of Copenhagen for design of Nordhavnen metro as a branch of Cityringen with first 1.9 km in twin bored tunnel followed by 350 m-long ramp in cut/cover. Includes one underground station and one surface station. Further information from www.hifab.dk/aktuelle_udbud and aec@ramboll.dk, tel +45 51611000. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=271078-2012. NUTS code DK01. 35/12.

Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) has handed over the feasibility study for an underground tunnel in Mumbai to Arup, following withdrawal by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) while they had begun the study of geological conditions. DMRC had initially volunteered to do the feasibility study for a tunnel, linking the Haji Ali area of central Mumbai to Nariman Point in south Mumbai. Arup will submit the report in two to three months. Other options being weighed, apart from the tunnel, are an undersea tunnel or the stiffly-opposed 4.35 km Pedder Road flyover that would help ease vehicular congestion due to the opening of the Bandra-Worli sealink bridge later this year. Visit www.arup.com 34-35/08.

15 km-long, $1.5 bn south-eastern motorway under design will have 7 km in twin-tube tunnels in variable geology using cut and cover and traditional excavation. Tendering expected 2004 for four-year construction programme. Visit www.arup.com 21/01.

  Roads & Streets Department plan for northern port access scheme now requires 5.6 km connection with M1 motorway to include 4.5 km twin-tube tunnel. Design/build contract value I£150 million. Start 1999. Consultants: Ove Arup. Contractor to decide method. Dec 1998.   Official go-ahead received from government. Visit www.arup.com January 2000. Dublin Corporation and the National Roads Authority in Ireland have announced the award the $450 million design/construct contract for the Port Tunnel to Nishimatsu Mowlem Irishenco. The port road will be a 5.6 km-long dual carriageway, most of which will be in a 4.5 km-long twin-tube tunnel. Construction will commence in early 2001, using two TBMs to accelerate the overall process. The tunnel should open in mid-2004 to provide a high quality access route for the 2 million trucks that currently travel through the city each year to the port. Visit www.nra.ie and www.mowlem.co.uk to view two beautifully constructed sites that should be carrying this news, but, sadly, are heavily cobwebbed. Owners please note! Haswell requires a Designer's Representative with 15 years experience of both cut and cover and bored urban tunnels to interface with client Nishimatsu Mowlem Irishenco. Site-based position of 3-year duration. Contact David Podmore recruit@mrijfc.co.uk 27/01.Twin-tube, two-lane tunnels under construction by NMI with 1.9 km in cut and cover and 2.6 km to be driven by two Herrenknecht 11 m-diameter EPB TBMs from 30 m-deep x 56 m-diameter access shaft sunk in ten weeks by four Cat excavators 330/325. On schedule for completion December 2004. More from Cat Magazine or visit www.cat.com 31/02.

Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) awarded to the consortium of Pizzarotti and Saipem the EUR 1.15 bn, excluding VAT, contract to build the 7km the High Speed Railway Bypass and the Belfiore High Speed Station in Florence, Italy. The two parallel tunnels will be constructed at an average depth of 20m using a TBM. The station has been designed by the architect Foster and engineering firm Ove Arup and partners. 

In recent months, the revamping of the TBM at the Campo Marte site has continued. The preparatory activities for the disassembly of the machine were started in August and will continue until March 2023. They will also continue with overhauling, replacing components and reassembling. By the end of March 2023, once all operations and preliminary tests have been completed, the TBM can be put into operation. 

Contact Rete Ferroviaria Italiana SpA, att Luca Lancieri, Rome, email l.lancieri@rfi.it. Visit  

https://www.rfi.it/en.html . Ref.n. DAC.0145.2022. 32/22.   

Watercare and the Ghella Abergeldie Joint Venture signed the contract to construct Watercare's Central Interceptor, a 13-km wastewater tunnel between Western Springs and the Mangere Wastewater Treatment Plant at Auckland with associated infrastructure. The tunnel is expected to reduce wastewater overflows in the central city by 80 per cent. Arup has been commissioned by Ghella Abergeldie JV to provide tender design support, detailed design services and construction phase support of shafts structural design and the tunnel lining design. Construction will start with site works in August and the whole project is expected to be completed by 2025. For tender information please click here . 11/19.

Bangkok Transit System received first $87 million to commence construction of 23.7 km Green Line. North and south sections of Blue Line scheduled for completion 2003. NATM consultant: Geoconsult E-mail office@gcs.co.at contact F L Jansky. Nov 1998.   $650 million 10 km-long twin-tube 5.7 m-diameter south section with nine stations under construction by jv of Bilfinger & Berger, Ch Karnchang, Kumagai Gumi and Tokyu Construction and will use two Herrenknecht EPBs ex-Taipei and two new Kawasaki machines. The Herrenknechts will start in July 1999 from Queen Sirikit station and will bore 4.8 km to Hua Lamphong station by mid-2001. The Kawasaki machines will start from the Rama IX station and drive 3.4 km to Queen Sirikit. Precast segmental concrete lining comprising 1.2 m-wide rings of five segments and key with hydrophilic gaskets. Rates of 15 m/machine/24h day are expected in the homogeneous, low-abrasive, boulderless clay. Principal design engineer Maunsell Asia. $770 million 10 km-long north section of similar dimensions with another nine stations under construction by ION jv comprising Italian-Thai, Obayashi and Nishimatsu using four dual-mode open/EPB machines from Kawasaki. Two machines launched from Ratchada station box early-1999 and two from Thiam Ruam Mit station box in April, 1999. Diaphragm walling and core excavation of station boxes is well underway along the route and will be completed ahead of each TBM arrival. Main consultant Ove Arup, sub-consultant for tunnels Geoconsult. Handover scheduled for 2002. June 1999.   First TBMs commissioned for 11 km Bangsue-Lat Phrao-Depot northern section of planned 20.5 km MRTA Blue Line by ION joint venture under $1 billion contract. 9 km of 6 m-diameter twin-bore tunnels and 9 stations designed by Arup Transport. ION comprises Italian Thai, Obayashi and Nishimatsu. Planned southern section of line will extend via Bon Kai to Hua Lum Pong station. August 1999.   Bilfinger & Berger reports completion of 190,000 sq m of diaphragm walls up to 1.2 m-thick for the stations using special equipment in restricted working heights. Foundation levels of stations up to 46 m below ground, with centre columns resting on 1.8 m-diameter piles, 70 m-deep. Dewatering avoided because of fears of settlement. Jet grouting employed to strengthen ground around TBM launch and reception positions and at pump sumps and adits between main tunnels and intervention shafts. Visit www.bilfingerberger.de for further information. October 1999.   SNC-Lavalin awarded three-year, $150 million lump-sum contract in joint venture with Ch Karnchang of Bangkok for the engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning of trackwork and power systems for the whole 20 km-long metro system. More details at www.snc-lavalin.com November 1999.Total length of eight twin tunnels connecting stations is almost 15 km. Four 6.3 m-diameter EPBs have been used: two launched from Phra Ram 9 station in May/June, 1999; and two from Queen Sirikit National Convention Center station in Sept/Oct, 1999. By April, 2000 nine of the sixteen drives were completed with a peak advance of 35 m/day, erecting 1.2 m-wide, 30 cm-thick, 5 + 1 concrete segment rings. Visit www.bilfingerberger.de and www.herrenknecht.com August 2000.   BMCL Co, a subsidiary of Ch Karnchang, together with Mitsubishi Electric and Alstom, to raise funds for provision of services under its 25-year MRTA contract for the 20 km-long subway being built from Hua Lamphong to Bang Sue, opening end-2002. Visit www.alstom.com 15/01.   CKSL consortium, comprising Ch Karnchang and SNC Lavalin, has completed laying 1 km of track from Rama IX maintenance centre to Thiem Ruam Mitr station. The 60 km tracklaying contract from Bang Sue to Hua Lamphong is progressing at 50 m/day for completion May, 2002. Visit www.snc-lavalin.com 40/01.   MRTA planning 13.8 km-long extension of metro from Hua Lamphong to Bang Khae, beneath Ratanakosin Island. Soft loan sought from JBIC, with 0.75% interest, 10 year grace period, and repayments over 40 years. Economic internal rate of return for extension is 14%. 44/01.  Phase I of a 8.7 km blue Line extension from Hua Lamphong to Bang Wa is awaiting approval by the Committee for the Management of Land Traffic (CMLT). The project includes 4.9 km of tunnels and four underground stations. The MRTA has completed the preliminary design. Project to be implemented under design/build contract. A single tunnel will be located in east Bangkok while a twin tunnel will be built in the west side in Thonburi. The line will cross underground the Chao Phraya river at Pak Khlong Talart. Visit www.mrta.or.th 04/02.