Award of $38 million contract for drill/blast construction of 3 km-long east tube on A14 Rheintal motorway to Jaeger, Beton & Monierbau, and Strabag for completion October, 2003. Visit www.strabag.at 23/01. Southern bypass will include $40 million, 2.6 km-long Letze tunnel on B191 for which preliminary investigation is underway. Construction starts 2004 for completion 2007. 25/01. A meeting has been organised on 21st January, 2002 between Liechtenstein and the Austrian province of Vorarlberg on the issue of the Letze tunnel. The talks focused on the state of planning, on the first test drills and on the possible date for the launch of the construction in 2004. No new variants were presented. Vorarlberg insists on the construction of a southern Feldkirch bypass and the so-called Letze tunnel. 06/02. Negotiated procedure, deadline 31st October, 2002 for engineering planning for the 6,583 m-long Pfänder tunnel, west tube on the A14 Rheintal motorway. Visit http://ted.eur-op.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=146976-2002, OJ S 186, or contact Amt der Vorarlberger Landesregierung, Bregenz, fax +43 5574 51127295. E-mail viib.bregenz@vorarlberg.at 40/02.Planning of the second tube (6,586 m) of the Pfänder tunnel, and two entry galleries, on motorway A14 has started with completion scheduled for the summer of 2005. The designer is ILF Consulting Engineers. They already designed the first tube. The design includes technical equipment, ventilation and safety installations as well as preparation of tender documents. Geological and hydrogeological studies by Geo-Logic. Building will begin 2006 and be completed in 2010. Visit www.ilf.com and www.geo-logic.at 33/03.Open call for tenders, deadline 5th February, 2004 for renovation of the west tube of the Amberg tunnel (2,978 m) on the Rheintal motorway A14. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=216974-2003, OJ S 244, or contact Autobahnen- und SchnellstraíŸen-Finanzierungs AG, Vienna, fax +43 15313410020, or Amt der Vorarlberger Landesregierung, Feldkirch, fax +43 5574511927895. E-mail office.wien@oesag.at 02/04.Restricted procedure, deadline 5th December, 2005 for assistance in the remaining planning phase and building phase of the second tube (6,586 m) of the Pfaender tunnel on the Rhine Valley motorway A 14. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=212498-2005, OJ S 215, or contact ASFINAG, Vienna, fax +43 5010814420. E-Mail baumanagement@asfinag.at 46/05.Restricted procedure, deadline 9th January, 2006 for work supervision and management during construction of the second, west tube (6.6 km) of the Pfaender tunnel on the Rhine valley highway A14 and rehabilitation of the existing, east tube (6.7 km). Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=227264-2005, OJ S 230, or contact ASFINAG, Vienna, fax +43 5010814420. E-mail baumanagement@asfinag.at 49/05.Restricted call for bids, deadline 11th April, 2007 for geological engineering for the second, 6.5 km-long Pfaender tunnel on the A 14 in Rhine valley, the cross passages to the existing tunnel and refurbishment of the existing bore. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=44251-2007, OJ S 36, or contact ASFINAG, Vienna, fax +43 5010814420. E-mail baumanagement@asfinag.at 09/07.Restricted call for bids, deadline 11th April, 2007 for geotechnical measurements for the second, 6.5 km-long Pfaender tunnel on the A 14 in Rhine valley, the cross passages to the existing tunnel and refurbishment of the existing bore. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=44250-2007, OJ S 36, or contact ASFINAG, Vienna, fax +43 5010814420. E-mail baumanagement@asfinag.at 09/07.Open call for tenders, deadline 19th June, 2007 for safety engineering for the Pfaender tunnel on the Rhine Valley highway A 14. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=103286-2007, OJ S 84, or contact ASFINAG, Vienna, fax +43 5010814420. E-mail baumanagement@asfinag.at 19/07.Open call for tenders, deadline 2nd October, 2007 for planning the safety equipment for the second 6.5 km Pfaender tunnel on the A 14 in Rhine valley. This is a re-bid. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=192178-2007, OJ S 154, or contact ASFINAG, Vienna, fax +43 5010814420. E-mail baumanagement@asfinag.at 35/07.Further to the competitive tendering for construction of the second, west bore of the Pfänder tunnel on the Rhine valley highway A14, the contract winner is Beton- und Monierbau and FCC's affiliate Alpine Mayreder with a EUR123.2 million bid. The existing Pfänder tunnel in the Rhine valley and Walgau is the most trafficked of Austria and long traffic queues bedevil the tunnel to the point that planners considered necessary to double it. Alpine will bore the 6.6 km west tube using the TBM and conveyor belts currently at work under the Mont Sion in France. Click here. The Pfänder tunnel will be the first TBM-driven road tunnel in Austria. Work is set to begin in October to end in the summer of 2012, which is when the existing tube will be refurbished. In summer 2013, the tunnel should be open in both directions. Read E-News Weekly 41/2002. Visit www.bemo.net and www.alpine.at 42/07.Open invitation to tender, deadline 21.04.2009, for design of the regional tunnel supervision headquarters for A14 Rheintalflug/Walgau tunnels at Hohenems. Contract duration 15.5.2009 to 31.5.2010. Contact ASFINAG Bau Management GmbH, Wien, Herrn Michael Metzler, tel +43 5010814-575, fax -420, e-mail baumanagement@asfinag.at Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=055707-2009 OJ S 38. 11/09.