Prior information notice of start of award procedures on 27.05.2010 for general safety upgrade and restoration of six road tunnels to RABT 2006 standard, value EUR26.5 million, commencing winter 2010 with Herkulestrasse, value EUR7.54 million. For further information contact Stadt Koeln, tel +49 221221-23647, fax –28715, e-mail zentrales-vergabeamt@stadt-koeln.de. For details of all tunnels involved in this project visit tunnelbuilder archive de/106. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=062973-2010. 10/10...

Vicenzetto Srl of Villa Estense have secured the EUR587,987 contract for test drilling and boring work in Brenner Base tunnel. Contact Johann Hager at BBT SE in Innsbruck, tel +43 5124030, fax +43 5124030-110, e-mail ava@bbt-se.com. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=062301-2010 and www.vicenzetto.it. ..

The CPV consortium, formed by CSC SA (Lugano) and Pizzarotti SA (Bellinzona), signed the EUR43 million contract for the construction of Lot 854 at Vezia, the main lot of Ceneri Base Tunnel, including the south portal, 200 m of cut-and-cover tunnel, as well as drilling, blasting and lining both tunnels along a length of 300 m. Works at Vezia will continue until 2016. Commercial operation of the Ceneri Base Tunnel with scheduled train services is planned to start at the end of 2019. Of the total of 40.19 km of the Ceneri Base Tunnel, at the end of February 2010, 7,673 m, or 19.1%, had been ..

Imtech Austria Anlagentechnik GmbH of Linz have secured the contract for supply, installation and commissioning of ventilation equipment for the tunnel section of the Harter Plateau tramway line. For more, contact Ing. Harald Grogger at Managementservice Linz GmbH in Linz, tel +43 7323400-7982, fax -157982, e-mail h.grogger @ linzag.at. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=059736-2010. 10/10...

Rete Ferroviaria Italiana SpA is inviting companies to prequalify for civil engineering work on railway tunnels in Italy. Further information and documents from Iacomino Raffaele at Gruppo Ferrovie dello Stato in Milan, tel +39 02637 148-19, fax –20, e-mail dns-qs@rfi.it to whom requests to participate should be sent. Visit

Pre-feasibility study being undertaken by ILF Consulting Engineers for construction of single track railway line along the Karakorum highway between the end of the existing railway network in the south at Havelian and the border between Pakistan and China near the famous Khunjrab Pass in the north.

Prequalification underway by MTR for tender reference no 703 for West Island Line SHW to SYP tunnels value EUR30 million with a view to selective invitations to tender being issued in 4Q/2008 for contract award in 3Q/2009. Expressions of interest to Malcolm O’Neill, tel 3921 3383, e-mail moneill@mtr.com.hk Visit www.mtr.com.hk/eng/tenders/new_projects.html 45/08.

AEPO signed a EUR855,000 design contract for the 2.6 km extension of the metro train to Cabueñes. An EPB TBM will be used to bore the new tunnel. 33/07

Groupe Algéro-Allemand du Métro d’Alger (GAAMA), a joint venture between Dywidag International of Germany (51%) and Algerian contractors

Iberinsa (60%) and Geoconsult (40%) bagged a EUR2.1 million design contract for the 12.6 km Sorbas-Lucaneina de Torres section on the Mediterranean coast high speed line in Almeria province.

The Bagbasi dam and 4 m-diameter Mavi tunnel, whereof 17,061 metres bored by TBM and 995 metres by conventional method, will be constructed by Ilci Group. The contract is worth EUR92.8 million. A groundbreaking ceremony took place on 6th July, 2007.

OHL’s Czech unit OHL ZS won a EUR53.34 million contract to build the 6.38 km Spejchar–Pelc-Tyrolka (SPELC) section of the city inner circle road in northwest Prague (lot 0079), whereof 5.5 kilometres of mostly bored tunnels

A joint venture led by ETDE with Clemessy, Seitha and SEE SR as partners concluded a EUR4.9 million contract to equip the 1.7 km Grands Goulets single bored tunnel with power supply, lighting, ventilation, radio communication and fire protection.

In March, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) named a joint venture led by Pacific Consultants International of Japan and including Japan Railway Technical Services, Tonichi Engineering, Rail India Technical and Economic Services (RITES)

HBI Haerter received a EUR221,200 contract to design the tunnel ventilation for the tunnel under the Danube and Danube National Park, to be built as part of section Schwechat-Suessenbrunn (19 km) on Vienna's outer ring motorway S1. Read E-News Weekly 21/2

ATB and Pizzarotti signed a EUR78.9 million contract to build a 10.4 km pilot tunnel between Aica and Mules in Bolzano province, south Tyrol, a 1.8 km access adit in Mules, a 400 m connecting tunnel between Aica / Unterplattner and Riga valley and process

The Comunication and Transport Secretariate (SCT) of Mexico awarded to ICA and Global Vía Infraestructuras, a company jointly owned by FCC and Caja Madrid, a USD625 million 30-year concession contract to build, operate and maintain the 85 km Nuevo Necaxa-

The Coentunnel Company BV consortium, led by Dura Vermeer and made up of VINCI Concessions, VINCI Construction's subsidiaries CFE and Dredging International, Besix, TBI and Arcadis has just been named preferred bidder for the Coen tunnel in Amsterdam. The

The Catalan government awarded a EUR692.1 million 35-year concession contract to Cedinsa Concessionaria to design, build and operate the Cervera-Caldes de Malavella section of the transverse road axis C-25 which will link Girona to Lleida without having t

Cavico Corp has been awarded a contract to build a 1 km-long 10 m-wide headrace tunnel valued at USD12.5 million for the Song Tranh 2 hydropower project. Construction is expected to take 20 months to complete. After signing the contract, Cavico Vietnam pl

CSM Bessac leads a joint venture, whose other partner is Implenia, to build a 2.3 km-long 2.5 m ID waste water tunnel, using one of its newly produced compressed air balance backhoe TBM. The project includes a start shaft in France and an exit shaft in Sw

Emap and its partner Entorn concluded a EUR110,250 deal for the environment management during construction of sections IIb and III of the Segarra-Garrigues canal. Section III includes the 2,379 m-long Tarrega tunnel, featuring an inner diameter of 4.15 me