Helsinki - fi/18Highway and RailwayRestricted procedure, deadline 6th May, 2002 for engineering and planning of the Vuosaari harbour access in Helsinki. Includes the Porvarinlahti highway tunnel, two tubes of 1.6 km each, 11.9 m-wide x 9 m-high, plus the Labbacka and Savio railway tunnels, two single tubes of 620 m and 13.5 km, 6.6 m-wide x 9 m-high. The rock type is granite or gneiss. Drill/blast is likely to be the excavation method with reinforced shotcreting for support and lining. Construction to start in 2004. Completion in 2008. Cost estimates are €32.2 million for the highway tunnels and €84.1 million for the two railway tunnels. Feasibility studies and preliminary engineering have been carried out by a consortium of Sito Group, JP Transplan, and LT Consultants. Visit http://ted.eur-op.eu.int/ojs/en/frame.htm, OJ S 66, document 51904-2002 or contact Finnish road administration, Helsinki, fax +358 9 34199117. E-mail ronald.westermark@tiehallinto.fi 16/02. Ground and rock investigation studies for the Vuosaari harbour project are being carried out by Suomen Malmi, SCC Viatek and Geocenter/Finnish Road Enterprise. Cost €1 million. Planning and design is undertaken by SCC Viatek, Jaakko Pöyry Group and Finnish Consulting Engineers/LT-Consultants. Cost €4 million. Work started in August and should be finished in May 2003. SCC Viatek, LT-Consultants, SITO Yhtiöt (Finnish Consulting Engineers) and Tieliikelaitos (Finnish Road Enterprise) have established Finnroad. The scheme requires the Porvarinlahti highway tunnel (two tubes of 1.6 km each, 11.9 m-wide x 9 m-high) as well as the Labbacka and Savio railway tunnels (two single tubes of 620 m and 13.5 km, 6.6 m-wide x 9 m-high). More in E-News Weekly # 47. Visit www.tiehallinto.fi 47/02.Restricted call for tenders, deadline 14th April, 2003 for the design of contract RS5 including the 2 x 1.5 km Porvarinlahti highway tunnel and the 750 m Labbacka railway tunnel. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=040834-2003, OJ S 47, or contact Tiehallinto, Helsinki, fax +358 934199117. E-mail ronald.westermark@tiehallinto.fi 14/03.Restricted call for tenders, deadline 14th April, 2003 for the design of contract RS6 including the 13.5 km Savio railway tunnel for freight, a single-track single-tube tunnel. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=040835-2003, OJ S 47, or contact Tiehallinto, Helsinki, fax +358 934199117. E-mail ronald.westermark@tiehallinto.fi 14/03.Open call for tenders, deadline 2nd May, 2003 for request of information regarding the Porvarinlahti, Labbacka and Savio tunnels. The client wants to cooperate with contractors during further development of technical solutions, schedule and costs. Meetings with interested contractors will be held in May 2003. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=054965-2003, OJ S 63, or contact Tiehallinto, Helsinki, fax +358 934199117. E-mail kari.auranen@cm-urakointi.fi 14/03.Finnmap-Infra and Rockplan have won contract RS5 for the design of the 2 x 1.5 km Porvarinlahti highway tunnel and the 750 m Labbacka railway tunnel. Contract amount: 939,600 euros. Visit www.finnmap-infra.fi and www.rockplan.fi 03/04.JP-Suoraplan has pocketed contract RS6 for the design of the 13.5 km single-track single-tube Savio rail freight tunnel. Contract amount: 1.2 million euros. Visit www.poyry.com 03/04.Restricted procedure, deadline 26th April, 2004 for construction of the Porvarinlahti highway tunnel (2 x 1.6 km) and the Labbacka railway tunnel (620 m). Contract value: EUR22 million. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=047981-2004, OJ S 56, or contact Finnish Road Administration, Helsinki, fax +358 934199117. E-mail kari.auranen@cm-urakointi.fi. Read E-News Weekly 47/2002. 14/04.Restricted procedure, deadline 26th April, 2004 for construction of the Porvarinlahti highway tunnel (2 x 1.5 km) and the Labbacka railway tunnel (750 m). Drill/blast method. Contract value: EUR20 million. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=053774-2004, OJ S 63, or contact Finnish Road Administration, Helsinki, fax +358 934199117 or 9141132. E-mail kari.auranen@cm-urakointi.fi. This tender cancels and replaces the one published last week. Read E-News Weekly 47/2002. 15/04.Restricted procedure, deadline 12th July, 2004 for construction of the 13.5 km Savio railway tunnel to the Vuosaari harbour in Helsinki. This single-track tunnel is divided into five separate contracts. Each include drill/blast tunnelling and other construction works. Tender value of the five contracts: EUR65 million. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=093909-2004, OJ S 112, or contact Tiehallinto, Helsinki, fax +358 934199117. E-mail kari.auranen@cm-urakointi.fi 25/04.Skanska Tekra has secured a EUR23.7 million contract to construct the Porvarinlahti road tunnel, the Labbacka railway tunnel and the short section of the harbour road south of the road tunnel, as part of the Vuosaari harbour access in Helsinki. Tunnel work will begin in September 2004 and the road tunnel will be completed by 30th August, 2006. The entire contract will be completed by the end of 2006. About 400,000 cubic metres of rock will be excavated and used as fill in the harbour. The Porvarinlahti road tunnel will have a total length of 2 x 1,680 m, with one tunnel in each direction. The road tunnel will go under the Porvarinlahti and Labbacka Natura 2000 areas. The harbour railway line will cross the Porvarinlahti bridge and then enter a 750 m tunnel under Labbacka.The Vuosaari harbour project is a joint project undertaken by the City of Helsinki and the Finnish state. The Port of Helsinki is responsible for building the harbour. The VUOLI project is responsible for traffic connections and includes the Finnish Road Administration, the Finnish Rail Administration and the Finnish Maritime Administration. The last tunnel contract which remains to be awarded is for the 13.5 km Savio freight railway tunnel, a single-track single-tube tunnel. Visit www.vuosaarensatama.fi and www.skanska.com 36/04.Five contracts have been awarded for the excavation of a 13.5 km Savio railway tunnel from the Porvoo motorway to Savio and the Vuosaari harbour in Helsinki. The contracts are worth EUR65 million in all (VAT not included). Tunnel contracts TU 2 and TU 5, worth EUR11 million and EUR13.4 million, have been awarded to YIT. The total tunnel length is almost 6 km. Visit www.yit.fi 51-52/04.Lemcon Infra of the Lemminkainen Group has won contract TU 3, value EUR16.1 million, which includes a 4,111 m tunnel section plus an access tunnel and a ventilation shaft, and contract TU 6, worth EUR8.9 million, including a 1,622 m tunnel. Visit www.lemcon.fi or www.lemminkainen.fi 51-52/04.Kalliorakennus secured contract TU 4 for EUR5.4 million. It includes a 850 m tunnel section plus an option for 1,300 m, worth EUR9.8 million. Visit www.kalliorakennus.com 51-52/04.Cross section about 70 sq m depending on the curve of the rail track. Mainly good hard rock, a major difficult broken section in Myras area. Drill/blast method. The main portion of the tunnel will be bolted and shotcreted with and without steel fibres. The most difficult Myras section (about 200 m) will be supported by a bearing and watertight concrete structure. Mucking-out mainly by trucks (reloading outside access tunnels is not allowed for noise regulations and the rock will be delivered directly to the site of the new Vuosaari harbour). The project also includes four ventilation/escape shafts (55 m, 65 m, 60 m and 27 m deep) and four access tunnels. Work will start in each contract in December 2004 and be completed between spring and summer of 2007.The 19 km-long harbour railway line will be ready in 2008 when the new harbour goes into operation. About a million cubic metres of rock will be excavated and used to fill harbour structures. The tunnel will run as much as 60 m below the surface in some places. The environmental impact of excavation will be closely monitored. Numerous studies have been conducted to ensure that work will not cause damage to nearby buildings or nature. Visit www.vuosaarensatama.fi 51-52/04.Skanska Tekra broke through the 1,520 m Porvarinlahti road tunnel. The final blast was celebrated at a special ceremony including workers and guests, with the temperature around -20°C. Tunnelling began in September 2004. The contract will continue with sealing and reinforcing work and will be completed by the end of the year. Work will then proceed on ventilation, electricity, traffic control and other systems. The tunnel will have a total cost of EUR33.4 million and will be commissioned in autumn 2007.Skanska Tekra started excavation at the southern end and its Slovakian partner Skanska BS started from the northern side. The Porvarinlahti road tunnel is a twin bored tunnel. The contract also includes a 600 m railway tunnel under Labbacka, which is still being excavated. Visit www.vuosaarensatama.fi, www.skanska.fi and www.skanska.cz 07/06.Through its Finnish company Tunneltech established last year, the Orsta Group received a contract from the Finnish state, for a value of more than EUR9 million with option for a total value exceeding EUR12 million. The project includes major lining works (water protection, frost protection and finally fireproofing) for the Porvarinlahti highway tunnel, which forms part of the VUOLI project in Helsinki. Tunneltech is the contracting company, specializing in tunnel linings for road and railway tunnels. Orsta Group's Norwegian subsidary Tunnelteknikk will do the major part of the works. However, both Finnish and Norwegian staff will carry out the project.The Porvarinlahti tunnel is a twin tube of 1,500 m of length, 11,5 m of width and 9 m of height, with 16,000 sq m of lining for water, frost and fire. The option is the 650 m-long 8 m-wide 9 m-high Labbacka railway tunnel, with 13,000 sq m of lining. The well known Orsta system from Orsta Stal will be installed, with combi-coated rock support bolts with resin anchorage. Click fi/18 and here. Visit www.orsta.com and www.vuosaarensatama.fi/en/index.html 14/06.Restricted procedure, deadline 19th June, 2006 for finishing works (concreting, frost protection, waterproofing, etc.) of the 13.5 km Savio railway tunnel. The tunnel forms part of the Vuoli project, a new road and rail access to Helsinki Vuosaari harbour. Click here. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=097302-2006, OJ S 91, or contact Tiehallinto, Helsinki, fax +358 934199117 or 9141132. E-mail kari.auranen@cm-urakointi.fi 22/06.Lemcon received a EUR23.1 million contract for fitting works in the 13.5 km Savio railway tunnel. The assignment includes concreting in the vertical shafts, access tunnels and both tunnel portals, frost protection, waterproofing, track foundation structures, and fastening bolts for track equipment. The tunnel forms part of the Vuoli project, a new road and rail access to Helsinki Vuosaari harbour. Click here and fi/18. Visit www.lemminkainen.com 47/06.