Strabag won a EUR5.94 million contract to build the 2,150 m-long 5 m-wide pilot bore of the Faè tunnel between Cles and Mostizzolo in Trento province. This exploratory tunnel is to be driven parallel to the future tunnel and will be used as a service and escape gallery when the main tunnel opens. Strabag will use an open type hard rock TBM, already owned by the company, either an Atlas Copco MK15 or a Wirth. The safety coordination has been assigned to Ing. Piero Paolo Susano for EUR115,680. Tunnelling to start end of 2004. Time frame: 400 days. Read E-News Weekly 33/2003. Visit www.bauholding.at 10/04.

Open invitation to tender, deadline 31.07.2012, for design and construction of Cles bypass on SS 43. Contract value EUR43 million. Contact Provincia autonoma di Trento, attn Rita Pancher, Trento, tel +39 04614964-44, fax -22, e-mail agenziaperiservizi@provincia.tn.it. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=101855-2012. 14/12.

The JV Oberosler cav. Pietro (leader), Consorzio Cooperative Costruzioni, Collini Lavori, Consorzio Lavoro Ambiente, Covi Costruzioni, Misconel, and Tassullo Materiali secured the contract for design and construction of Cles bypass on SS 43. Contact Provincia autonoma di Trento, attn Rita Pancher, Trento, tel +39 04614964-44, fax -22, e-mail agenziaperiservizi@provincia.tn.it. Visit http://www.uffstampa.provincia.tn.it/csw/c_stampa.nsf?Open#comunicato&id=229F7CBE450287F7C1257B5F0050E778. 19/13.