The construction contract for the EUR133 million Lai Chi Kok Transfer Scheme, advertised at tunnelbuilder.com earlier this year, has been awarded to Leighton Asia. The project includes two 4.9 m-diameter storm water drainage tunnels with total length of 3.7 km between West Kowloon reclamation and Lai Chi Kok and Sham Shui Po districts, six intake shafts, a stilling basin, an outfall adit into Victoria Harbour, and 270 m of 3 m-diameter connection adits. Work starts immediately for completion in 2012. More from Quinnie Lee, tel +852 2823 1427, e-mail quinnie.lee@leightonasia.com 47/08..

Contract valued EUR414,000 awarded by Norwegian Railway Infrastructure Administration to Norconsult AS of Sandvika to provide technical and detailed plans of tunnels for the joint project E6 road and Dovrebanen, lot Minnesund-Kleverud, which includes one twin-tube 0.6 km-long road tunnel and 3.1 km of single railway tunnel over a 17 km-long alignment in Eidsvoll and Stange municipalities. ..

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. ..

Bemel Norge AS of Majorstuen, Oslo has been awarded the contract to supply ventilation fans to the 5.37 km-long Atlantic Ocean tunnel between Kristiansund and Bremnes on National Road 64 in the value EUR555,000...

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.

Prior information notice for construction works, value EUR24.86 million, for a undergroung cut-and-cover tunnel from Pabellon Moises Ruiz to Plaza de Barcelona, 1,1 km, with 0.8 m-thick base, 1.0 m-thick walls and 1.0 m-thick roof, on Carretera de Ronda, in Almeria. The works will include intermodal station.

Open call for tenders, deadline 8th November, 2007 for detailed design, safety coordination during detailed design and associated assignments (surveying, geotechnical and geological studies, etc.) as part of the upgrading of road SS13 “Pontebbana“ from the south ring road in Udine to Pordenone province’s road system, first lot on the section from Ronche di Fontanafredda interchange to Ponte della Delizia. The project includes a 1.4 km single-tube two-lane cut-and-cover tunnel. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=212880-2007, OJ S 173, or contact Amministrazione provinciale di Pordenone, Pordenone, fax +39 0434231347. E-mail lavoripubblici@provincia.pordenone.it 41/07.

Open call for tenders, deadline 20th November, 2007 for E&M equipment of the 3,340 m Achrain three-lane tunnel. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=221200-2007, OJ S 181, or contact Land Vorarlberg, Feldkirch, fax +43 5574511927895. E-mail viib.feldkirch@vorarlberg.at 40/07

The national government signed on 21st September, 2007 a resolution which officially opens the bidding process for the construction of the central Andean crossing including the 8.8 km Second Centenary (or La Linea) tunnel and the Calarcá-Cajamarca road dualling. The tender value is estimated at COP620 billion (USD375 million). Submission deadline is December. Bid assessment and contract award are scheduled in January 2008. Work is planned to commence in April 2008. Excavation of the tunnel will end in May 2010 for opening in January 2012 while the second carriageway between Calarcá and Cajamarca will open in May 2010. These are estimated dates published on the website of the Invias, the national road and highway institute. Click here and here. Visit www.invias.gov.co 40/07.

Open all for tenders, deadline 31st October, 2007 for engineering during the preparation and negotiation phase of the PPP contract for the tram train project in La Reunion Island. Read E-News Weekly 21/2007, 5/2007 & 38/2006. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=223702-2007, OJ S 183, or contact Conseil général de la Réunion, Saint-Denis, fax +33 262487071. E-mail tram-train@cr-reunion.fr. Also visit www.tramtrain.fr 40/07.

Open call for tenders, deadline 5th November, 2007 for delivery of booster fans for the Bjørvika tunnels in Oslo including a 675 m-long immersed tunnel under the harbour and its ramps, 503 m of cut-and-cover tunnels and ramps totalling 1.2 km with a rectangular shape for one, two or three lanes at Sørenga, a new 420 m-long 9.5 m-wide rock tunnel in Mosseveien/Grønlia and 620 m of enlarged existing tunnels and the ramps. Read E-News Weekly 39/2007, 40/2005, 28/2005, 26/2005, 23/2005, 4/2005, 18/2002 & 10/2002. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=223948-2007, OJ S 183, or contact Statens vegvesen Region east, Lillehammer, tel. +47 81522000 or 24058759. E-mail mari.barstad@vegvesen.no. Also visit www.vegvesen.no/bjorvika 40/07

Open call for tenders, deadline 25th October, 2007 for construction of the east bypass railway for freight trains in Valladolid on the Madrid-Valladolid high speed line. This is a 17.5 km Spanish gauge line, starting at chainage 242.9 on the Madrid-Hendaya line and finishing at chainage 258.4 on the same line. It is mainly a surface line, except two kilometres between chainages 3.9 and 5.9 in Pinar del Jalón, San Cristóbal industrial park and Cerro de San Cristóbal. The cut-and-cover method will be used. Read E-News Weekly 5/2006. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=221177-2007, OJ S 181, or contact Ministry of Development, Madrid, fax +34 915979342 or 915978470. E-mail vrpascual@fomento.es or cpublic@fomento.es 40/07

Open call for tenders, deadline 30th October, 2007 for site supervision and work control during construction of the Ordizia-Itsasondo section of the high speed line. This 2,859 m-long section runs almost fully in tunnel (2,814 metres). Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=221722-2007, OJ S 181, or contact Euskal Trenbide Sarea-Red Ferroviaria Vasca, Bilbao, fax +34 946572601. E-mail ets@ets-rfv.es 40/07.

Open call for tenders, deadline 29th October, 2007 for design of the CV-70 road bypass project between Alcoi and Benidorm in Alicante province, including the Confrides tunnel, 1 km in length. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=215966-2007, OJ S 176, or contact Generalitat Valenciana, Valencia, fax +34 963867349. 40/07.

Open call for tenders, deadline 22nd October, 2007 for supply and installation of medium voltage supplies for the second, 5.1 km Roppener tunnel and upgrading in the existing tunnel on highway A 12 in Inn valley. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=216592-2007, OJ S 177, or contact ASFINAG, Vienna, fax +43 5010814420. E-mail baumanagement@asfinag.at 39/07

Open call for tenders, deadline 29th October, 2007 for studies for the underground architecture of the long-life nuclear waste repository. Read E-News Weekly 6/2006, 24/2004, 27/2002 & 17/2002. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=214958-2007, OJ S 175, or contact Andra, Chatenay-Malabry, fax +33 146118258. E-mail valerie.barrey@andra.fr. Also visit www.andra.fr/interne.php3?id_rubrique=70 39/07

Prequalification for international public bidding number LPI/CO-JBIC-SCBP-02-2007, deadline 30th October, 2007 for final construction works for the Panama City and Bay of Panama sewage project. The project includes the construction of an approx. 7 km-long, 1,800 to 2,100 mm-diameter pipeline. The proposed construction method is with 3 to 4 m-diameter single or double EPB shield. 39/07

Open call for bids with prequalification, deadline 30th November, 2007 for the design, construction, financing and operation of the approx. 940 m-long Orlovski road tunnel under the Neva river, Smolnaya and Sverdlovskaya embankments in St. Petersburg. The tunnel starts on the left bank in the central part of the city near Orlovskaya Street, crosses the Neva between Liteiny and Bolsheohtinsky bridges and exits between Piskarevsky Avenue and Shosse Revolutsii. 39/07

Open call for tenders, deadline 24th September, 2007 for construction supervision and control measurements on lots H1 and H2-2 on the Kundl/Radfeld-Baumkirchen section of the Inn valley railway. Lot H2-2 is a 2.4 km cut-and-cover tunnel section. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=215110-2007, OJ S 175, or contact Brenner Eisenbahn, Innsbruck, fax +43 512576887. E-mail bwd@beg.co.at 38/07

INVÍAS, the Colombian road authority, published the pre-bidding rules for the studies, design, social and environmental management, land expropriation, construction, operation and maintenance of the 8.8 km La Linea tunnel parallel to the pilot tunnel, in Cajamarca-Calarcá direction, and 24 kilometres of new access roads.

Open call for tenders, deadline 15th October, 2007 for construction supervision for the 7.4 km Silberberg tunnel on the Ebensfeld-Erfurt high speed railway. Visit http://ted.europa.eu/udl?request=Seek-Deliver&language=en&docid=216027-2007, OJ S 176, or contact DB ProjektBau, Erfurt, fax +49 3614300189 or 3412342399. 38/07.