Guadarrama - es/32HighwayInvitation to tender expected July 2001 for $50 million 2.62 km-long, 52.5 sq m section single tube highway tunnel in Sierra de Guadarrama for Castellana de Autopistas SA. Construction to commence October, 2001 for completion 2003. Check Spanish official state bulletins at www.boe.es July 2000. Invitation to tender for $40 million, 2.8 km-long, 10.5 m-wide, 5.0 m-high single tube drill/blast tunnel in granite on A6 motorway Enlace Valle de los Caidos to San Rafael section. Support by rockbolts and shotcrete. Start expected July 2001 for completion in two years. Client is Castellana de Autopistas. October 2000. The ministry of development has definitively approved the Valle de los Caí­dos-San Rafael section to increase the capacity of the A-6 in Madrid and Segovia province. A third tunnel under the Guadarrama mountains is required. One-way, three-lane 3 km-long with 2% gradient. Opening scheduled in 2006. Read E-News Weekly # 1 & 5. Visit www.iberpistas.es 07/03.The Ministry of development has approved the final project to build a third lane on highway A-6 between km 39.3 in Villalba and km 47.4 in Valle de los Caí­dos for a cost of €18.8 million. Includes a third tunnel under the Sierra de Guadarrama, 2.7 km in length. Read E-News Weekly 1/2002 & 5/2002. Visit www.iberpistas.es 45/03.Open call for bids, deadline 25th May, 2004 for expansion of toll highway AP-6, section Valle de los Caí­dos interchange-San Rafael. A new dual-lane carriageway will be constructed, including a third tunnel under Sierra de Guadarrama, 3 km in length. The section has a total length of 13.3 km. Tender value: EUR90.5 million. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=061734-2004, OJ S 73, or visit Castellana de Autopistas, Madrid, fax +34 915730687. E-mail desarrollo@iberpistas.es. Read E-News Weekly 2/2004, 5/2002 & 1/2002. 17/04.Dragados and Acsa Agbar Construccion have secured a EUR81.4 million contract to build a new dual-lane carriageway on toll highway AP-6 Villalba-Adanero, section Valle de los Caidos-San Rafael, including a new 3 km tunnel under Guadarrama mountains. Visit www.dragados.com 30/04.Open call for bids, deadline 1st September, 2004 for work control and construction management of the new Valle de los Caidos-San Rafael section on highway AP-6, including a third 3 km tunnel under Guadarrama mountains. Visit http://ted.publications.eu.int/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=111664-2004, OJ S 131, or contact Ministry of public works, Madrid, fax +34 91 915978537 or 8470. E-mail cpublic@mfom.es 30/04.Ineco secured a EUR1.1 million contract to supervise the construction of the Valle de los Caidos-San Rafael section on highway A-6, including the third Guadarrama tunnel (3.2 km). Visit www.ineco.es 07/05.