The group will assemble a allotment of Paris Metro line 18 that entails the dreary of a 6.7km tunnel and the constructing of stations and ancilliary infrastructure.
The work shall be implemented by Ferrovial’s Construction division, in consortium with Spie batignolles Génie Civil and Spie Batignolles Valérian. It’s section of the Colossal Paris Bid mega project, which entails the addition of 68 unusual stations and 200km discover to the Paris underground railway.
Below the contract, Ferrovial will bore 6.7km of tunnel between the Saint-Quentin Est and Versailles-Chantiers stations, in western Paris. The work, scheduled to purchase 104 months, also entails constructing three stations and other infrastructure.
The tunnels shall be excavated with a tunnel dreary machine to overcome the difficulties posed by the Fontainebleau sands and working advance the SNCF railway line at Versailles. The consortium has dwelling ambitious targets for the restoration of excavated cloth, in particular sand.
The project is anticipated to obtain shut to 350 jobs, and as a minimal 10% of work hours shall be allocated to of us who’re within the within the meantime unemployed, which is able to benefit roughly 40 of us within the Yvelines space.
“Collaborating within the Colossal Paris Bid mega-project evidences our extensive worldwide abilities within the invent and constructing of this form of city infrastructure,” said Ignacio Gastón, CEO of Ferrovial Construction. “Just a few of our most iconic initiatives might perhaps perhaps presumably furthermore be stumbled on in such cities as London, Sydney and Madrid.”
“We’re overjoyed to had been chosen for this project, our best most likely contribution to the Colossal Paris Bid initiative to this level, because it extra strengthens our mountainous presence on the coronary heart of this main project,” said Benoît Moncade, overall manager of Spie Batignolles Génie Civil. “It’s miles also a tribute to the technology and technical abilities of our groups, who had been engaged on the Metro for the final six years.”
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