Madeira - pt/11 Road and Highway Five tunnels up to 1,269 m-long under construction at Porto Moniz near San Vicente. Contractor Construtora do Tamega. Also 3.1 km-long Encumeada through Serra de Agua mountain being built by contractor EPOS and another three tunnels at Ponta do Sol totalling 1.9 km are being driven by Avelino Fariha & Agrela. Another three tunnels between Funchal and Ribeira Brava total 3.9 km. February 1999.   Construtora do Tamega reports it is constructing nine tunnels on the highway between Funchal and the airport in association with Zagope. Two of these have 200 sq m section. October 1999. Open invitation to tender for construction of six road tunnels, deadline 23rd October, 2000. Contact RAM, fax +351 291 225112 or visit http://ted.eur-op.eu.int for details. August 2000.   Open tenders invited, deadline 20th November, 2000, for construction of 2.1 km-long road tunnel. Contact RAM, fax +351 291 225112. Visit http://ted.eur-op.eu.int for OJEC dated 28/09. October 2000. Open invitation to tender, deadline 22nd March, 2001, for road tunnel construction. Contact RAM, fax +351 291 225112. Check http://ted.eur-op.eu.int 05/01. Open invitations to tender for 2.33 km-long road tunnel closing 9th April, 2001 and two tunnels 940 m and 320 m-long closing 16th April, 2001. Contact RAM in Funchal, fax +351 291 225 112. Notified at http://ted.eur-op.eu.int 09/01. Award of contract including construction of four tunnels total length 2.44 km to Zagope, Tamega and Tecnorocha. Award of 275 m-long Moinhos and 1.02 km-long Jardim Pelado to Tamega, Soares da Costa and AFA. Award of 2.1 km-long Canical tunnel on Machico-Canical motorway section to construction consortium of Tamega, Zagope, Somague, and Tecnorocha. Contact RAM, Funchal, fax +351 291 225112 and visit www.zagope.pt 33/01. Open invitation to tender for construction of motorway section in Madeira with 4/5 tunnels. Contact RAM, Funchal, fax +351 291 225112. 42/01. Contract awarded to a jv of Teixeira Duarte, Empresa Portuguesa de Obras Subterrâneas, and AFA to build the 2,327 m Ponta do Sol tunnel. Value of Esc3.9 billion. 50/01. Open call for bids, deadline 27th September, 2002 for construction of the first phase of the Faial-Santana expressway consisting of 3.6 km of tunnel with lengths as follows: 435 m, 2,360 m, 190 m, 480 m and 220 m. Estimated value €58.8 million. Further details in E-News Weekly # 30. Visit http://ted.eur-op.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=108993-2002, OJ S 139, or contact Autonomous region of Madeira, Funchal, fax +351 291225112. 31/02. Open call for tenders, deadline 24th October, 2002 for construction of a 2.1 km section of the Machico-Canií§al expressway, requiring the twin Portais tunnel (655 + 675 m) and the twin Palmeira tunnel (836 + 855 m). Tender value €50.8 million. Visit http://ted.eur-op.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=136932-2002, OJ S 171, or contact Regií£o Autí³noma da Madeira, Funchal, fax +351 291225112. More details in E-News Weekly # 30. 37/02.Open call for bids, deadline 4th November, 2002 for construction of the third phase of road ER 101 between Sí£o Vicente and Porto Moniz. Requires to build six single tunnels totalling 5,926 metres (1,211 m + 31 m + 2,506 m + 1,304 m + 354 m + 520 m). Drill/blast with wiremesh, shotcrete and rockbolts as support. Construction will commence in January or February 2003. Tender value €57.4 million. Visit http://ted.eur-op.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=137930-2002, OJ S 173, or contact Regií£o Autí³noma da Madeira, Funchal, fax +351 291225112. The third phase slightly modifies and replaces the second phase described in E-News Weekly # 25. 37/02. Open call for tenders, deadline 6th November, 2002 for construction of a 2.3 km section of the Machico-Canií§al expressway, from the Queimada tunnel to Canií§al. Includes one single-tube tunnel in Queimada (720 m), and twin tubes in Piquinho (463 + 448 m) and Fazenda (175 + 185 m). Tender value €59.5 million. More details in E-News Weekly # 30. Visit http://ted.eur-op.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=139821-2002, OJ S 176, or contact Regií£o Autí³noma da Madeira, Funchal, fax +351 291225112. 38/02. Open call for bids, deadline 16th December, 2002 for construction of the ER 104 road between Rosí¡rio and Sí£o Vicente, second phase. Requires three tunnels (608 m, 320 m and 491 m). Visit http://ted.eur-op.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=166964-2002, OJ S 211, or contact Madeira autonomous region, Funchal, tel. +351 291225112. Read E-News Weekly # 30. 45/02. The bidders for the Canií§al section of the Machico-Canií§al expressway are Bento Pedroso Construí§íµes (highest bidder with €59 million); FCC (lowest bidder with €49.8 million); OPCA; Tecnovia; Teixeira Duarte; Soares da Costa/Avelino Farinha & Agrela; Spie Batignolles TP/Construtora do Lena and Zagope/Tecnorocha. There will be two twin tunnels: Portais (655 + 675 m) and Palmeira (836 + 855 m). Read E-News Weekly # 30. 02/03.The nine bidders for the 5.9 km Sí£o Vicente-Porto Moniz expressway (ER 101), third phase are Bento Pedroso Construí§íµes (highest offer with €58.2 million); OPCA; Engil/Somague/Zagope; Ferrovial; Spie Batignolles TP; Teixeira Duarte/EPOS; Tecnovia; Construtora do Tâmega/Tecnorocha/Soares da Costa and Edifer (lowest bidder with €49.3 million). There will be six single tunnels (31 m, 520 m, 1,211 m, 1,304 m, 354 m and 2,506 m). Read E-News Weekly # 25. 02/03.The eight bids submitted for the 2.3 km Machico-Canií§al section range from €51.3 to €65.9 million. One single-tube and two double-tube tunnels must be constructed: Queimada (720 m), Piquinho (463 + 448 m) and Fazenda (175 + 185 m). The lowest bid has been presented by Ferrovial and HCI (€51.3 million) followed by Soares da Costa/Avelino Farinha & Agrela (€54.9 million); Teixeira Duarte/EPOS (€57 million); Construtora do Tâmega/Zagope/Somague/Tecnorocha (€54.9 million); Tecnovia (€56.3 million); Spie Batignolles TP/Construtora do Lena (€58.8 million); Bento Pedroso Construí§íµes and FCC/Edifer (highest bid with €65.9 million). Award in three to four months. Read E-News Weekly # 30. 02/03. Construction of the Faial-Santana expressway with five single-tube tunnels (435 m, 2,360 m, 190 m, 480 m and 220 m) has been commissioned to a consortium formed by Teixeira Duarte, Engil, Empresa Portuguesa de Obras Subterrâneas (EPOS) and Avelino Farinha & Agrela (AFA). Contract value €60.6 million. Read E-News Weekly # 30. 09/03. Open call for bids, deadline 4th June, 2003 for construction of the Vila da Calheta bypass, second phase including excavation, lining and drainage of tunnel 4 (1,165 m) and a 50 m rescue gallery. Also part of the tender is the surfacing and drainage of tunnels 3 and 4 between km 1+119 and 1+150 as well as electrical and mechanical works. Tender value €32.8 million. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=054906-2003, OJ S 63, or contact Regií£o Autí³noma de Madeira, Funchal, fax +351 291207385. 14/03. €52.8 million contract awarded to a JV of Tâmega, Tecnorocha and Soares da Costa for the construction of the third phase of road ER 101 between Sí£o Vicente and Porto Moniz which requires six single tunnels totalling 5,926 metres (1,211 m + 31 m + 2,506 m + 1,304 m + 354 m + 520 m). Drill/blast method with wiremesh, shotcrete and rockbolts. Read E-News Weekly # 25. 16/03. Construction of a 2.3 km section on the Machico-Canií§al expressway, running from the Queimada tunnel to Canií§al, including the Queimada single-tube tunnel (720 m) and the Piquinho tunnel (463 m + 448 m) and Fazenda tunnel (175 m + 185 m) has been awarded to a JV of Tâmega, Zagope, Tecnorocha and Somague. Contract amount: €53.5 million. Read E-News Weekly # 30. 22/03. A consortium of Zagope, Constructora do Tâmega, Tecnorocha and Somague has bagged a €50.8 million contract for construction of the 2.1 km Canií§al section of the Machico-Canií§al expressway including the 2 x 665 m-long Portais tunnel and the 2 x 845 m-long Palmeira tunnel. Read E-News Weekly 25/2002. 25/03. Tecnovia has won a €24.5 million contract to build the second phase of a bypass to road ER 104 between Rosí¡rio and Sí£o Vicente. The 2,660 m section includes three tunnels. Lengths: 608 m, 320 m and 491 m. The contract also includes the lighting, ventilation and signalling. Subscribe to E-News Weekly # 30. 26/03. Open call for bids, deadline 18th August, 2003 for consultancy and assistance during construction of the road ER 104 bypass between Rosí¡rio and Sí£o Vicente, second phase, including three tunnels (608 m, 320 m and 491 m). Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=109619-2003, OJ S 122, or contact Regií£o Autí³noma da Madeira, Funchal, fax +351 291207385. Read E-News Weekly # 30/2002. 28/03.Open call for bids, deadline 28th August, 2003 for assistance and work supervision during construction of road ER 101 Sí£o Vicente-Porto Moniz, third phase including six tunnels totalling 5.9 km. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=121949-2003, OJ S 135, or contact Regií£o Autí³noma da Madeira, Funchal, fax +351 291207385. Read E-News Weekly # 25 30/03.Open call for bids, deadline 7th October, 2003 for second phase of Faial-Santana section, including the construction of the Santana and Pinheiro tunnels (106.5 m and 312.5 m) and equipment of five tunnels built as part of the first phase, for a total length of 3.6 km. Tender value: €27 million. Visit http://ted.eur-op.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=144431-2003, OJ S 158, or contact Autonomous region of Madeira, Funchal, fax +351 291207385. Further details in E-News Weekly 30/2002. 37/03.Open call for bids, deadline 5th November, 2003 for control and anti-fire equipment, lighting, signalling and safety equipment of six single tunnels under construction by Construtora do Tâmega, Tecnorocha and Soares da Costa on the Sí£o Vicente-Porto Moniz section. Total length is 5.9 km. Tender value: €65 million. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=158367-2003, OJ S 175, or contact Madeira autonomous region, Funchal, fax +351 291207385. Read E-News Weekly 25/2002. 40/03.A JV between Avelino Farinha & Agrela (AFA) and Abrantina has been selected to build the second phase of the Vila da Calheta bypass, including excavation, lining and drainage of tunnel 4 (1,165 m) and a 50 m rescue gallery. Also part of the tender is the surfacing and drainage of tunnels 3 and 4 between km 1+119 and 1+150 as well as electrical and mechanical works. Contract value: €38.8 million. Visit www.abrantina.pt 43/03.A JV between Ecgplan and Cenor has won a EUR564,900 contract for the work control and construction management of road ER 101 Sí£o Vicente-Porto Moniz, third phase including six tunnels totalling 5.9 km. Click pt/11. Read E-News Weekly 25/2002. 09/04.Open call for tenders, deadline 17th July, 2006 for construction of two single bored tunnels with two lanes (900 m and 1.2 km) on the access to Ribeira Brava business park, a 500 m road section in between and design of the equipment of the tunnels. Drilling and blasting to be used. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=090773-2006, OJ S 86, or contact Madeira autonomous region, Funchal, fax +351 291207385. 20/06.Open call for bids, deadline 11th October, 2006 for construction of the new road link between Vasco Gil and Fundoa, including seven short single-tube tunnels: 365 m, 27 m, 300 m, 100 m, 50 m, 685 m and 200 m. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=153642-2006, OJ S 143, or contact Autonomous region of Madeira, Funchal, fax +351 291207385. 33-34/06.Open call for tenders, deadline 27th November, 2006 for construction of the first phase of the Faja da Ovelha-Ponta do Pargo expressway. This is a 5.7 km section, including four tunnels totalling 2,220 m. Read E-News Weekly 30/2006. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=185371-2006, OJ S 174, or contact Autonomous region of Madeira, Funchal, fax +351 291207385. 38/06.Open call for tenders, deadline 6th December, 2006 for construction of the first phase of the Boaventura-Sao Vicente expressway, which includes three tunnels of 1,122 m, 1,054 m and 1,780 m as well as four emergency tunnels. Read E-News Weekly 30/2006. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=189406-2006, OJ S 178, or contact Autonomous region of Madeira, Funchal, fax +351 291207385. 39/06.Open call for tenders, deadline 13th December, 2006 for construction of the first phase of the Ribeira de Sao Jorge-Arco de Sao Jorge expressway, which includes three tunnels of 1,590 m, 1,360 m and 1,180 m as well as seven emergency tunnels. Read E-News Weekly 30/2006. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=190358-2006, OJ S 179, or contact Autonomous region of Madeira, Funchal, fax +351 291207385. 39/06.Open call for tenders, deadline 8th January, 2007 for work supervision of the Ribeira de Sao Jorge-Arco de Sao Jorge expressway, which includes three tunnels of 1,590 m, 1,360 m and 1,180 m as well as seven emergency tunnels. Read E-News Weekly 30/2006. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=219664-2006, OJ S 206, or contact Autonomous region of Madeira, Funchal, fax +351 291207385. 45/06.Open call for tenders, deadline 4th December, 2006 for construction of the first phase of the Madalena do Mar road bypass, including two tunnels. Both are two-way tunnels, each 9.6 m wide and carrying two 3.5 m lanes, two 30 cm shoulders and two 1 m pavements. The first tunnel is 1,910 m long while the second is 1,535 m long. Expected geology is very heterogeneous, consisting of volcanic complex íŸ2, alluvial deposits and slope deposits. Drill-and-blast excavation is anticipated but, as long as possible, mechanical means will be used. Support and lining will consist of local bolting; shotcreting reinforced with fibres and bolting; shotcreting reinforced with fibres, steel arches, and possible forepoling; and shotcreting reinforced with fibres, steel arches, and forepoling. For the portals, shotcreting reinforced with fibres, steel arches and forepoling will be used. A waterproofing PVC membrane and a polypropylene geotextile liner will be installed between the primary support and the final reinforced concrete lining. There will also be 5 m-wide emergency tunnels and 2.5 m-wide pedestrian escapes. The emergency tunnels will include U-turns and emergency lay-bys. Tunnel 1 will be connected to a 200 m-long transverse tunnel, a second 237 m-long transverse tunnel and a 488 m-long longitudinal tunnel. Two 30 m-long pedestrian escapes will lead to the longitudinal emergency tunnel. Tunnel 2 will be linked to two transverse tunnels, 233 m and 188 m long. Construction is scheduled to commence in the first quarter of 2007. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=189389-2006, OJ S 178, or contact Autonomous region of Madeira, Funchal, fax +351 291207385. 46/06.Tecnovia, Construtora do Tâmega, Avelino Farinha & Agrela (AFA) and Zagope secured a EUR18.9 million contract to build two single bored tunnels with two lanes (900 m and 1.2 km) on the access to Ribeira Brava business park, a 500 m road section in between and design of the equipment of the tunnels. Drilling and blasting to be used. Visit www.tecnovia.pt, www.ctamega.pt, www.afa.pt and www.zagope.pt 04/07.Mota-Engil and Somague Engenharia pocketed a EUR42 million contract to construct the new road link between Vasco Gil and Fundoa, including seven short single-tube tunnels: 365 m, 27 m, 300 m, 100 m, 50 m, 685 m and 200 m. Visit www.mota-engil.pt and www.somague.pt 11/07.Avelino Farinha & Agrela (AFA), Tecnovia, Spie Batignolles Europe and Soares da Costa signed a EUR37.9 million contract to build the first phase of the Fají£ da Ovelha-Ponta do Pargo expressway. This is a 5.7 km section, including four tunnels totalling 2,220 m. TPF Planege received a EUR795,200 contract for construction management. Read E-News Weekly 30/2006. Visit www.afa.pt, www.tecnovia.pt, www.spiebatignolles.fr, www.soaresdacosta.pt and www.planege.pt 44/07.Avelino Farinha & Agrela (AFA), Tecnovia, and Soares da Costa clinched a EUR53.6 million deal to build the first phase of the Madalena do Mar road bypass, including two tunnels, 1,910 m long and 1,535 m long. TPF Planege received a EUR712,200 contract for construction management. Click pt/11 for details. Visit www.afa.pt, www.tecnovia.pt, www.soaresdacosta.pt and www.planege.pt 44/07.Constructora da Tâmega will construct the first phase of the Boaventura-Sí£o Vicente expressway, which includes three tunnels of 1,122 m, 1,054 m and 1,780 m as well as four emergency tunnels. Consulgal received a EUR800,000 contract for construction management. Read E-News Weekly 30/2006. Visit www.ctamega.pt and www.consulgal.pt 44/07.Zagope, Teixeira Duarte and EPOS have been entrusted with the construction of the first phase of the Ribeira de Sí£o Jorge-Arco de Sí£o Jorge expressway, which includes three tunnels of 1,590 m, 1,360 m and 1,180 m as well as seven emergency tunnels. Consulgal received a EUR793,200 contract for construction management. Read E-News Weekly 30/2006. Visit www.zagope.pt, www.tduarte.pt, www.epos.pt and www.consulgal.pt 44/07.ECGPlan and Cenor bagged a EUR795,000 contract for construction management of the Vasco Gil-Fundoa road link, which includes seven single-tube tunnels (365 m, 27 m, 300 m, 100 m, 50 m, 685 m and 200 m). Visit www.cenor.pt and www.cenor.pt/empresas/ecgplan.aspx 44/07.

Postponed from 07/04/20 to 28/04/20  the deadline of the invitation to tender for the design and build contract for Wakrah and Wukair drainage tunnel. The contract for Drainage Tunnel (DT) is approximately 13 km in length and is in the vicinity of the New Orbital Highway and Truck Route and terminates at the Al Wakrah & Al Wukair Sewage Treatment Plant (STP), which will be under construction simultaneously.  The duration of the contract is 1260 calendar days from the Commencement Date, together with 400 calendar days of Maintenance Period from the date of issuance of the Completion Certificate. Contact Public Works Authority Ashghal,  Doha, Qatar, fax (+974) 44950777, email esd.tenders@ashghal.gov.qa. For tender information please click here. Ref.n. PWA/GTC/085/2019. 17/20.

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.