Three tenders invited for the doubling of the Sandvika-Asker railway, deadline 31st October. Contract JA1 is to build 3,225 m of double-track tunnels from Solstad to Hí¸nsveien, a 320 m access tunnel and option for a 400 m tunnel from Asker centre. Contract JA2 is for 2,715 m of double-track tunnels from Jong to í…stad, a 120 m access tunnel and option for a 200 m tunnel from Solstad to Asker. Contract JA3 is JA1 + JA2 contracts. Support with rockbolts, shotcrete and steel arches. Visit http://ted.eur-op.int, documents S 197-135100, S 196-134351 and S 196-134352. Contact Jernbaneverket, Oslo, fax +47 22 455860, e-mail utbygging@jbv.no or visit www.jernbaneverket.no 43/01. Cross section of 111 sq m. Hard rock TBM and drill/blast through Silurian sedimentary rock, mainly limestone. Norconsult involved as consulting engineers. JA3 tunnelling to cost US$100 million, of which US$55 million for JA2, to be 100% financed by Norwegian State. Bidders will be known early December, 2001. Contract awards for end-January, 2002. JA1 tunnelling to start in mid-summer, 2002. JA2 tunnelling to start early-February, 2002. Completion scheduled for mid-summer, 2004. Visit www.norconsult.no 44/01. Award to Veidekke of the Sandvika-Asker railway dualling requiring a 490 m 96 sq m double-track tunnel and two 480 m 56 sq m single-track tunnels. All cut-and-cover. Moraine (40%), clay (57.5%) and rock (2.5%). Double-track tunnel to cost €7 million and single-track tubes €3.2 million with time frame May 2002-March 2003 and March 2002-January 2003 respectively. Visit www.veidekke.no 05/02. Sandvik Tamrock has been awarded the contract to supply two computerized full data Axera tunnelling jumbos to be used by contractor Mika AS to excavate the tunnel from Asker to Jong, which is part of a double-track railway between Oslo and Asker. The equipment contract, valued at over NOK20 million, also covers the supply of drill steels as well as service for two years. Delivery will start in March, 2002. Visit www.sandviktamrock.com and www.sandvik.com 07/02.Sandvik Tamrock AS is delivering a third full-data tunnelling jumbo to Mika AS. The Tamrock Axera T11 DATA three-boom fully computerized jumbo with basket boom will start up a third face in May, 2003. Visit www.sandviktamrock.com 05/03.Negotiated procedure, deadline 17th October, 2003 for design and installation of contact lines, low voltage and remote control equipment on the new Sandvika-Asker double-track line, section Sandvika-Jong-Asker. Work to be done in the Jong-Solstad tunnel (3,485 m) and in the Solstad-Asker tunnel (3,790 m) and at grade between the tunnels (540 m). Contact line installations, ventilation fans (smoke and frost), emergency lighting installations, and high voltage and low voltage installations must be installed in the tunnels. Includes also works at Sandvika and Asker stations. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=172405-2003, OJ S 191, or contact Jernbaneverket, Sandvika, fax +47 22455860. E-mail hsg@jbv.no 42/03.Negotiated procedure, deadline 1st June, 2004 for detailed plans for a 5.5 km double-track rock tunnel between Lysaker and Sandvika on the Skoyen-Asker section. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=071793-2004, OJ S 84, or contact Jernbaneverket, Oslo, fax +4722455800. E-mail anne.kathrine.kalager@jbv.no 19/04.Multiconsult won a contract for the detailed and construction plans for a 5.5 km double-track rock tunnel between Lysaker and Sandvika on the Skoyen-Asker section. Asplan Viak won another contract for development plans. Visit www.multiconsult.no and www.asplanviak.no 46/04.Open call for tenders, deadline 8th January, 2007 for construction of a 1.2 km railway tunnel, including securing, pre-injection, waterproofing and frost protection, etc. and approx. 800 metres of railway at ground level. Read E-News Weekly 19/2006. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=205551-2006, OJ S 193, or contact Jernbaneverket, Oslo, fax +47 22455800. E-mail kkn@jbv.no 42/06.Open call for tenders, deadline 29th January, 2007 for contracts LS-02 and LS-03 of the Lysaker-Sandvika double-track railway tunnel. Contract LS-02 Skallum comprises the tunnel works between Lysaker west and Fossveien. Contract LS-03 Fossveien comprises the tunnel works between Skallum and Sandvika east. Both railway tunnels are approx. 1,800 m long with a cross section of approx. 110 sq m. The construction of the tunnel has been divided into four contracts, one of which has been previously tendered. The final contract will be announced in the near future. Read E-News Weekly 19/2006. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=223334-2006, OJ S 209, or contact Jernbaneverket Infrastruktur Utbygging, Oslo, fax +47 22455800. 46/06.Negotiated procedure, deadline 3rd January, 2007 for hire of an engineering design manager for the tunnel and open air zone for the Lysaker-Sandvika railway dualling. The project is divided up into four main contracts. The primary assignments for the engineering design manager are to assist the project manager/construction managers in following up the consultants for the tunnel and open air zone works as well as following up the development of work drawings and management, operations and maintenance documentation. Also included is coordination of the engineering design works for all trades in the project. Read E-News Weekly 19/2006. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=238703-2006, OJ S 222, or contact Jernbaneverket Infrastruktur Utbygging, Oslo, fax +47 22455800. E-mail aie@jbv.no 48/06.Negotiated procedure, deadline 15th January, 2007 for construction management for the Lysaker-Sandvika railway dualling. Read E-News Weekly 46/2006 & 19/2006. Click no/43. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=249745-2006, OJ S 233, or contact Jernbaneverket Infrastruktur Utbygging, Oslo, fax +47 22455800. E-mail aie@jbv.no 51-52/06.Accelerated negotiated procedure, deadline 5th January, 2007 for vibration measurements as part of the construction of the new double track railway between Sandvika and Lysaker, including approx. 5.5 km of tunnel. Read E-News Weekly 46/2006 & 19/2006. Click no/43. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=255921-2006, OJ S 239, or contact Jernbaneverket Infrastruktur Utbygging, Oslo, fax +47 22455800. E-mail tvevid@jbv.no 51-52/06.Jernbaneverket, the Norwegian National Rail Administration, contracted Skanska to build a new railway section. The contract amount is NOK498.4 million. The contract involves the new construction of a 2.8 km section of double track between Skí¸yen and Asker, west of Oslo. The project is one of four sections of the new railway line between Lysaker and Sandvika. Skanska’s assignment includes all work except track laying. The section includes a 1.2 km railway tunnel, including securing, pre-injection, waterproofing and frost protection, etc. and approx. 800 metres of railway at ground level. Construction begins in March and is scheduled for completion in July 2011. Visit www.skanska.no 10/07.Veidekke has signed a contract with Jernbaneverket, the national rail administration, for the Skallum substructure (contract LS-02), which is part of the new double-track railway line between Skí¸yen and Asker. The contract price is NOK365 million. The contract involves tunnelling from an access tunnel at Skallum in Bí¦rum. Veidekke will establish the approximately 420 m-long access tunnel down to the main tunnel for the double-track line. It will drive approximately 800 metres of tunnel in the direction of Lysaker and 800 metres in the direction of Sandvika. Both tunnels will be driven to connect up with neighbouring contracts. The work includes rock blasting, securing and other structural work inside the tunnel. The work will commence on 11th April and be completed by 1st August, 2010. Visit www.veidekke.no 12/07.Negotiated procedure, deadline 16th April, 2007 for contracting of five control engineers for the Lysaker-Sandvika line, for assistance to the construction manager with quality control. Click no/43. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=69506-2007, OJ S 56, or contact Jernbaneverket, Oslo, fax +47 22455800. E-mail aie@jbv.no 14/07.NCC Construction signed on 10th April an agreement worth approximately NOK372.7 million with Jernbaneverket, the railway infrastructure developer, for contract LS-03 Fossveien, which is part of the new double-track railway on the route between Skí¸yen and Asker on the Lysaker to Sandvika line, west of Oslo. A 240 m-long tunnel is to be constructed down by the main line for double-track railway services at Fossveien in Bí¦rum. Subsequently, a 1,050 m-long tunnel will be constructed towards Lysaker and a 750 m-long tunnel towards Sandvika. These two tunnels will connect with other tunnel contracts. Work will commence on 2nd May and is scheduled for completion on 1st August, 2010. The works include blasting, securing and other interior construction work in the tunnel. Visit www.ncc.info 16/07.SBV Consult pocketed a NOK6.3 million contract to undertake vibration measurements as part of the construction of the new double track railway between Sandvika and Lysaker, including approx. 5.5 km of tunnel. Read E-News Weekly 16/2007, 46/2006 & 19/2006. Click no/43. Visit www.sbv-consult.no 27-28/07.Negotiated procedure, deadline 13th December, 2007 for quality control and follow-up of works on the Lysaker-Sandvika railway dualling. Click no/43 to know details about the tunnels involved. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=268468-2007, OJ S 220, or contact Jernbaneverket, Oslo, tel. +47 22455992. E-mail aie@jbv.no 47/07.Tunnel and GeoConsult, and independent consulting engineers Sigmund Bakk and Lise Backer have been contracted by the Norwegian National Rail Administration for quality control assistance to the construction manager for the Lysaker-Sandvika line. Read E-News Weekly 16/2007, 46/2006 & 19/2006. Visit www.tunnelandgeoconsult.com 48/07.Negotiated procedure, deadline 8th May, 2008 for electrical installations (high and low voltage systems) for the new 6.5 km double track railway between Lysaker and Sandvika, 5.5 km of which is in tunnel. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=71126-2008, OJ S 52, or contact Jernbaneverket, Oslo, tel. +47 91656257. Visit solgei@jbv.no 13/08.Negotiated procedure, deadline 8th May, 2008 for telecom installations for the new 6.5 km double track railway between Lysaker and Sandvika, with approximately 5.5 km of tunnel. The installations include tunnel radio, emergency telephones and fibre installations. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=71125-2008, OJ S 52, or contact Jernbaneverket, Oslo, tel. +47 91656318. Visit jto@jbv.no 13/08.Contract for telecommunications installations for 6.5 km section of new double railway track in Baerum municipality for Lysaker-Sandvika, of which 5.5 km in tunnel, awarded by Jernbaneverket to T Connect AS of Manglerud, Oslo. http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=292852-2008 More from Olaf Bjerknes, tel +47 9943 4144, e-mail olbj@jbv.no 46/08.Contract for high and low voltage electrical installations on 6.5 km section of Lysaker-Sandvika line through Baerum municipality, of which 5.5 km is in tunnel, awarded to YIT Building Systems of Etterstad, Oslo, value EUR12 million. Jernbaneverket contact is Jarle Tommervik, tel +47 9165 6318, e-mail jto@jbv.no. Visit archive file no/43 for a full history of the contracts for dualling of the Sandvika-Asker line. http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=4562-2009 02/09