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.

Payma Cotas in JV with Cetres Enginyers have been awarded a EUR2.1 million contract to assess and supervise the Cervera-Manresa section on the dualling of the transverse road axis C-25. The 44.4 km Cervera-Manresa section includes one tunnel. Visit www.pa

Malaysian engineering consultant KTA Tenaga has teamed up with Japanese firm Tokyo Electric Power Services (Tepsco) to win a contract to provide consultancy services on the Pahang to Selangor raw water transfer project. The scheme, which includes a 45 km-

A JV formed by Lieto Costruzioni Generali, Sirti, Mannelli and SIM bagged a EUR64.9 million contract to construct the Cilea interchange junction between the Circumflegrea line and Line 1 of the Naples metro. The project includes two single-track tunnels,

Oberosler, Demoter, Rammlmair and Edilpassiria received a EUR5.8 million contract to bore the Sarntal pilot tunnel as part of a 4.8 km upgrading of trunk road SS 508 in Sarentino valley. The project consists of two 3.5 m-wide bores, 1,990 metres and 1,500

FCC and Copisa won the EUR57.4 million contract package 1, for complementary works for the water line between the Llobregat and Ter potable water stations, section Fontsanta-Trinidad between the Sant Just rill and the Trinidad supply station. The contract

Work to equip the Croce di Casale tunnel with lighting and ventilation has commenced. This tunnel forms part of the ex road bypass SS 78 across the hills between Piceno and Aprutina, so-called Mezzina. The bypass project was divided in three lots.

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.

The Finnish Rail Administration has commissioned Pöyry and WSP Finland to prepare a plan for the Marja line, a new urban railway serving the Helsinki metropolitan area. Other partners are sub-consultants. The plan will be prepared in cooperation with othe

High Speed Railway Geoconsult and Fuerlinger received a EUR350,000 contract for geological and hydrogeological engineering during construction of lot H4-3 of the Lower Inn valley railway, including a tunnel built using the NATM. Visit www.geoconsult.at a

Pöyry has been awarded a EUR7 million engineering services contract by Sepasad Engineering Co. to undertake engineering services during the implementation of the 450 MW Rudbar-e-Lorestan hydropower project. Previously, Pöyry carried out technical studies

Elter pocketed a EUR17.9 million contract from the Ministry of land planning, environment and public works to build the Achyra dam and relevant works in Aitoloakarnania prefecture. The project includes a 2,081 m water intake tunnel, 767 m of which

A SEK280.2 million contract has been awarded on 29th December, 2006 to Beton- und Monierbau of Austria to build an approx.

Pratibha Industries in joint venture with Austria's Oestu-Stettin Hoch und Tiefbau has bagged a INR2.22 billion order from the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai for construction of a 7.5 km tunnel of 4,100 mm diameter at Modak Sagar, with

FCC has signed a EUR41.5 million contract to build the Arguis-Monrepos Pass section on motorway Mudejar A-23.

Typsa bagged a EUR1.8 million contract for site supervisión during construction of the Camarillas railway bypass between