Soletanche undertaking 10 km of pipejacking using two Herrenknecht machines of 2.6 m and 2.25 m diameter. December 1999.

Two road tunnels costing $120 million using Herrenknecht Mixshield. Contractor: jv of Campenon Bernard/SGE with Bouyges, Dumez, GTM, Spie Batignolles and Arab Contractors. June 1998.  Two-lane tunnel with two tubes of 2.5 km built by Arab Contractors, Campenon Bernard, Eiffage, and Spie, inaugurated on 28th October, 2001. Equipped with anti-fire walls and slide access every 100 metres to an emergency gallery under the carriageway. 45/01.

Notice of public works concession for section Saint-Julien-en-Genevois/Villy-le-Pelloux (19 km) on the A41 highway, including the twin 3.1 km-long 10.5 m-wide Mont Sion tunnel, two lanes and an emergency lane per tube. The portals have already been built. Engineering studies by Scetauroute. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=078518-2003, OJ S 88, or contact Ministère de l'équipement, des transports, du logement, du tourisme et de la mer, Paris-La Défense, fax +33 140811259. E-mail gael.jegou@equipement.gouv.fr 20/03.The ministry of equipment and transport decided to negotiate a 55-year concession contract for the financing, design, construction and operation of section Saint-Julien-en-Genevois - Villy-le-Pellou (19 km) of highway A41 with ADELAC, a consortium of companies including highway concessionaire AREA, Bouygues TP, GFC Construction, DTP Terrassement, Losinger Construction, Colas, all controlled by the Bouygues Group, consulting engineers Setec, and bank Caisse d'Epargne et de Prevoyance des Alpes. This section will link Annecy in Upper Savoy to Geneva, Switzerland. It includes a 3.1 km 10.5 m-wide twin bored tunnel under Mount Sion, to be excavated by a TBM. The design and building is budgeted at EUR520 million, with no contribution of public funds. It is expected the contract will be signed before the end of the summer. Time frame for construction: 38 months for opening scheduled at end-2008. Visit www.equipement.gouv.fr, www.area-autoroutes.fr and www.bouygues-construction.com 18/05.Notice of works contract awarded by the concessionnaire, deadline 9th December, 2005 for prefabrication and delivery to the building consortium Adelac of lining segments for the 2 x 3.1 km tunnel on the 19 km Saint-Julien-en-Genevois - Villy-le-Pellou section on highway A41. A total of 2,914 lining rings of six 45 cm-thick 2 m-long segments will be produced and delivered. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=213102-2005, OJ S 216, or contact Adelac SAS, Archamps, fax +33 450821126 or 450952893. E-mail k.isaia@aprr.fr. Click fr/56. 47/05.Consortium Adelac headed by Bouygues will use a 11.9 m-diameter Herrenknecht TBM to drive the 2 x 2,914 m-long Mont Sion tunnel on the 18.8 km Saint-Julien-en-Genevois - Villy-le-Pellou section of motorway A41, which will link Annecy with Geneva. The tunnel will be lined with 0.45 m to 1.5 m-thick segments. Visit www.herrenknecht.com 52/05-01/06.

70,000 cu m storage collector proposed by Association of Regional Authorities between Pont National and Ivry to be TBM-driven 1.8 km at 7 m diameter in chalk. Invitation to tender expected 2002 for completion 2004. Refer to European Gazette or visit http://ted.eur-op.eu.int July 2000. Preinformation notice for construction of a 1,890 m-long 7 m ID rainwater storage tunnel to be driven using a full-face EPB TBM plus a 20 m-diameter 30 m-deep shaft in the 13th district of Paris and the city of Ivry. Capacity of 80,000 cubic metres. Estimated cost €55 million. Tenders to be invited in January 2003 and construction to start in August 2003. Visit http://ted.eur-op.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=185226-2002, OJ S 233, or contact SIAAP, Paris, fax +33 144756100. 49/02.Open call for bids, deadline 19th May, 2003 for construction of the Ivry-Masséna storage tunnel for a capacity of 80,000 cubic metres of stormwater, length 1,890 m and 7 m in diameter. The tender also includes other associated works, among which a 20 m-diameter 32 m-deep shaft. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=064892-2003, OJ S 74, or contact SIAAP, Paris, fax +33 144756100. 17/03.A JV between Bouygues TP, Razel, Spie Fondations and Campenon Bernard has won a €62.7 million contract to drive the 1,860 m-long 7 m-inner diameter sewer overflow tunnel between Masséna in the 13th district of Paris and the city of Ivry, south of Paris. Also construction of a 20 m-inner diameter 32 m-deep shaft. In principle, the tunnel will be driven using an EPB shield, either the Herrenknecht TBM currently used on contract 2 of the Toulouse metro or a new machine to be acquired. Lining rings made up of five reinforced concrete segments plus key. Geology: plastic clay, medium to coarse sands, marly limestone and chalk. Water pressure of 2.5 bar. Mucking-out technique not determined yet, either conveyor belt or muck cars. Work to start in December 2003 with time frame of 36 months. Visit www.siaap.fr and www.bouygues-construction.com 50/03.Invitation to tender for construction of sewerage works, deadline 08.12.2008, including 1.675 km-long, 1.6 m-diameter sewer with five entry shafts and four exit shafts using microtunnelling techniques. Contract duration 24 months. Contact SIAAP tel +33 144 75 4426, e-mail gerard.mary@siaap.fr, or visit www.siaap.fr for full announcement. 45/08.

  Preinformation notice for the upgrading of the 7 km Maurice Lemaire tunnel in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines. A parallel tunnel, to be used both for rescue and ventilation, will be bored north of the existing tunnel from both portals. This tunnel will be connected to the existing tunnel by escape cross passages, smoke removal ducts and boreholes for utilities. The existing tunnel needs heavy renovation for ventilation, electricity and lighting, safety, centralised technical management, signalling, video and automatic detection, emergency calls, anti-fire device, etc. Work cost around €120 million. Time frame fall 2002-2007. Visit http://ted.eur-op.eu.int/ojs/en/frame.htm, OJ S 4, document 2828-2002 or contact Société des Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhône, fax +33 1 47533820. Also visit www.saprr.fr 03/02. Restricted tendering for the construction of a 7 km tunnel as part of the upgrading of the Maurice Lemaire tunnel in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines. Deadline 19th February, 2002. The first 500 metres, cross section 40 sq m, will be driven using traditional means in gneiss and mylonite. The rest will be TBM-driven, 6 m-diameter in gneiss and hard abrasive granite. Drill/blast of cross passages between the new and the existing tunnels. Also raise-drilling. Complete renovation of the tunnel. Visit http://ted.eur-op.eu.int/ojs/en/frame.htm, OJ S 11, document 8099-2002 or contact the Scetauroute/Bonnard et Gardel jv for technical details, Lausanne, fax +41 6181122. Also visit www.saprr.fr 04/02.A JV between Bouygues and Eiffage will renovate the 6,872 m-long Maurice Lemaire tunnel on trunk road RN159 in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines for EUR180 million (July 2000 value). A new rescue and service tunnel will be TBM-driven parallel to the existing main tunnel which will also undergo heavy refurbishment. The JV has ordered a 6 m-diameter Herrenknecht hard rock gripper TBM. The machine will be delivered in mid-October 2004 for tunnelling start at end 2004. Support will consist of shotcrete, steel arches, wiremesh, and rockbolts. One concrete segment will be installed at the invert. The first 500 m will be bored using conventional means, a hydraulic hammer or excavator and drill/blast. Geology consists of gneiss and granite. The service tunnel will be divided in two levels by a concrete slab. The lower level will be for escape and rescue and the upper level for exhaust smoke removal and ventilation. The excavated rock will be removed out of the TBM by means of a conveyor belt. The main tunnel, closed to trucks since March 2000 for safety reasons, needs substantial improvements. These will consist in removing, dusting off and recycling the exhaust smoke duct (7 km), rebuilding the culverts, building safety niches, rock chambers for turning points and cross passages to the new tunnel every 400 m. All tunnel equipment (exhaust smoke removal, electric power, lighting, signalling, etc.) is not part of the contract. Work to start in April 2004 for completion in winter 2007. Financing by the concessionaire SAPRR (80%), the government (10%) and the Alsace and Lorraine regions (5% each). Visit www.saprr.fr and www.herrenknecht.com 04/04.Marti Technics has won the muck removal contract for the Maurice Lemaire tunnel renovation from the Bouygues / Eiffage JV. A new safety and rescue tunnel, which route follows a 250 m radius, will be built parallel to the existing 6,872 m tunnel. Marti Technics will design, build, install and manage a 6,755 m belt conveyor, equipped with a fully automatic 500 m belt reserve advancing in perfect synchronicity as the TBM progresses. The tunnel links the Vosges and Upper Rhine counties. It is a former railway tunnel first opened in 1937 and converted to road traffic in 1976. It was closed to heavy vehicles in March 2000 amid fears of another disaster further to the Mont Blanc tunnel fire which, one year earlier, killed 39 people. Visit www.martitechnik.ch. 31-32/04.Restricted call for tenders, deadline 19th May, 2005 for supply and installation of high and low voltage and lighting equipment in the 6,950 m Maurice Lemaire tunnel which connects Haut-Rhin and Vosges departments. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=074258-2005, OJ S 77, or contact Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhone, Paris, fax +33 147533820. 17/05.Restricted call for tenders, deadline 19th May, 2005 for ventilation equipment, associated metalwork and part of their electric supply for the 6,950 m Maurice Lemaire tunnel which connects Haut-Rhin and Vosges departments. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=075318-2005, OJ S 78, or contact Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhone, Paris, fax +33 147533820. 18/05.Restricted call for tenders, deadline 19th May, 2005 for radiocommunication for the 6,950 m Maurice Lemaire tunnel, the parallel safety tunnel under construction and the portals. This tunnel connects Haut-Rhin and Vosges departments. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=075314-2005, OJ S 78, or contact Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhone, Paris, fax +33 147533820. 18/05.Restricted call for tenders, deadline 19th May, 2005 for low voltage systems for the 6,950 m Maurice Lemaire tunnel (facility management, networks, PC equipment, telephone and sound systems in the cross passages, emergency call system, fire detection, galleries and technical rooms, access control). This tunnel connects Haut-Rhin and Vosges departments. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=075313-2005, OJ S 78, or contact Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhone, Paris, fax +33 147533820. 18/05.Restricted call for tenders, deadline 19th May, 2005 for fixed and mobile firefighting means for the 6,950 m Maurice Lemaire tunnel which connects Haut-Rhin and Vosges departments. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=075317-2005, OJ S 78, or contact Autoroutes Paris-Rhin-Rhone, Paris, fax +33 147533820. 18/05.

  Possible tunnels for commencement 2001: Sinard south to Grenoble on autoroute A51; Lodeve on route nationale RN75. SGE, GTM and Eiffage to start work on A86 highway tunnel using Cofiroute TBM end-1999. Sept 1999.Socatop, a jv which comprises Campenon Bernard, GTM, Colas, Eiffage, and Jean Lefebvre, has started construction of the 4.5 km-long first section of the A86 east tunnel from Rueil to the A13 in sands, chalk, limestone and clay using its 11.6 m-diameter Herrenknecht Mixshield. Tunnel will be segmentally lined at 10.4 m internal diameter and will accommodate three lanes of light traffic in each direction on two levels. Second 5.6 km-long section from A13 to Versailles will commence in 2004, and 7.6 km-long x 10.9 m i.d. west tunnel in 2005. For equipment details visit www.herrenknecht.de and for a pleasurable experience visit www.eiffage.fr December 2000.A JV of SEITHA and Clemessy has secured a contract to equip with Zitron fans the east tunnel on the A86 highway west of Paris. There will be approximately 200 fans, power ranging from 22 to 500 kW. Visit www.seitha.fr, www.clemessy.fr and www.zitron.com 30/05.Restricted invitation to tender, deadline 26.01.2009, for design and execution of major renovation work on section A14 of the A86 motorway, including fire detection/protection and lighting on some 15 km of tunnel, creation of five safety exits and improving access to existing niches and exits, upgrading ventilation and electrical installations, and ancillary works. Completion of works scheduled for end-2011. Further information, including specs and docs, from Magguy Desplan at DIRIF, tel +33 (0)1 4676 8724, e-mail magguy.desplan@developpement-durable.gouv.fr. http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=331913-2008 01/09.

Northwest to southwest connection should get underway by end-1999 using Herrenknecht TBM. Sept 1999.

  9.5 km TBM drive awarded to jv of Spie Batignolles, Sotrabas, Razel-Pico and Bilfinger & Berger. Second drive of 8.4 km due for award. March 1998.  Two tunnels, the 8 km Galerie Salazie Amont from the Mat river to the Pluis river and the 9.65 km x 3.2 m-diameter Galerie Salazie Aval from the Pluis river to the Fleurs-Jaunes river will allow transfer of water from the east of the island to the west. The Amont is being driven by a jv led by Bouygues and the Aval by a jv led by Spie Batignolles, both of which include Razel, Pico, Sotrabas, and Bilfinger & Berger. Two Herrenknecht TBMs are in use in basalts and similar volcanic rocks with maximum cover of 1,000 m. Fax M Coulet of Razel/Pico in Reunion, +262 44 9820 for progress and visit www.herrenknecht.com for further details of the TBM specifications. February 2000.

  Negotiated procedure, deadline 23rd July, 2004 for construction management for the Rohbau tunnel on section 5-8 of Hamburg's light rail. This section includes a 2 x 1.8 km TBM-driven tunnel. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=100677-2004, OJ S 119, or contact Deutsche Bahn Netz, Hamburg, fax +49 40513162622. E-mail bb.zeppelinstr@t-online.de 27/04.Hochtief and Bilfinger Berger will build the city railway to Hamburg airport, section 5-8, using a Herrenknecht mixshield TBM, machine S-258. The project includes a 2 x 1,750 m tunnel. A christening ceremony is planned for 6th December, 2004. The excavated diameter is 6,870 mm and the finished diameter after lining is 5,800 mm (inner) and 6,600 mm (outer diameter of the segments). Main figures of the machine are 8,500 mm (shield length), 64,000 mm (total length), 390 t (weight of shield), 610 t (weight in total), 1,800 kW (total installed power), 36,490 kN (total thrust) and 600 kW (cutterhead power). Lining to comprise six segments and one key segment. Geology will consist of boulder clay, coarse sand / gravel, medium sand, fine sand, silt and artificial soil. Commissioning scheduled for 2007. Visit www.herrrenknecht.com, www.hochtief.de and www.bilfinger.de 48/04.Consulting engineers Grassl secured a EUR1.1 million contract for construction management for the Rohbau tunnel on section 5-8 of Hamburg's light rail. This section includes a 2 x 1.8 km TBM-driven tunnel. Visit www.grassl-ing.de 35/05.

  Notice of intention to construct 9.385 km-long Katzenberg railway tunnel between Karlsruhe and Basel. Contact DB Bauprojekt, fax +49 721 9314 5788. 44/01. Negotiated contract, deadline 25th July, 2002 for the construction of the 9.4 km twin Katzenberg tunnel between Bad Bellingen and Efringen-Kirchen in Land Bade-Württemberg. Conventional tunnelling, TBM and cut-and-cover (286 m and 115 m). Visit http://ted.eur-op.eu.int/static/home/en/homepage.ini, OJ S 124, document 97040-2002 or contact DBBauProjekt Deutsche Bahn Gruppe, Karlsruhe, fax +49 721 93145588. E-mail Friedrich.F.Schaser@bku.db.de 28/02.Negotiated procedure, deadline 6th November, 2002 for engineering services for a 10 km dual-track section between Schliengen and Eimeldingen on the Karlsruhe-Basel line. Includes two single-track bores, 9 km bored and 400 m in cut-and-cover plus two ventilation shafts. Visit http://ted.eur-op.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=154786-2002, OJ S 196 or contact DB Netz, Freiburg, fax +49 7612123620 or 72193145788. E-mail hans-peter.hecht@bahn.de or roswitha.ott-urban@bahn.de 42/02.A JV between Zueblin, Wayss & Freytag, Marti Tunnelbau and Jaeger Bau will build the 9,385 m 95 sq m Katzenberg twin-tube rail tunnel on the Karlsruhe-Basel line in Upper Rhine Valley. The contractors selected Herrenknecht to supply two 11.12 m-diameter EPB TBMs. The shield is 12.2 m in length (approximately 225 m with the back up) and weighs 1,168 tons (approximately 1,900 tons with the complete equipment). The installed power will be 6,600 kVA with a cutterhead power of 3,200 kVA and 0-1.8 rpm at stage 1 and 0-5 rpm at stage 2. The nominal torque is 19,800 kNm at 1 rpm, the maximum torque being 23,700 kNm at 0.8 rpm. The cutterhead will be equipped with scrapers for both directions of rotation, a full face 17" disc cutter dress, single cutters in the gage and two rings in the face section, cutting tools for both directions of rotation. There will be no copy cutter as a spherical bearing is installed. The lining rings will comprise of six segments plus one key. The geology will be mudstone, clayey marl and marl stones. The first EPBS will be delivered in July 2004 and the second in October 2004. Visit www.zueblin.de, www.wf-ib.de, www.martiag.ch, www.jaegerbau.com and www.herrenknecht.com 03/04.Periodic information notice indicating that award procedures will commence on 13.03.2009 for railway and tunnel construction works on Schliengen-Eimeldingen section of Karlsruhe-Basel line starting 01.09.2009 for completion 31.12.2012. Further information, specs and docs from Susanne Simon at Deutsche Bahn, tel +49 721938-6266, fax -6279, to whom tenders, requests to participate or expressions of interest should be sent. http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=020112-2009 05/09.