Ferrovial lands Paris rail contract
The employees will blueprint a share of Paris Metro line 18 that comprises the boring of a 6.7km tunnel and the enchancment of stations and ancilliary infrastructure.
The work will be implemented by Ferrovial’s Building division, in consortium with Spie batignolles Génie Civil and Spie Batignolles Valérian. It’s a ways share of the Huge Paris Explicit mega mission, which comprises the addition of 68 recent stations and 200km discover to the Paris underground railway.
Under 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 accept as true with 104 months, furthermore comprises building three stations and diversified infrastructure.
The tunnels will be excavated with a tunnel boring machine to beat the difficulties posed by the Fontainebleau sands and working shut to the SNCF railway line at Versailles. The consortium has space ambitious targets for the recovery of excavated field fabric, particularly sand.

The mission is expected to form shut to 350 jobs, and as a minimal 10% of work hours will be distributed to of us which would possibly per chance presumably be currently unemployed, which is ready to earnings roughly 40 members in the Yvelines region.
“Participating in the Huge Paris Explicit mega-mission evidences our vast international skills in the impress and construction of this diagram of urban infrastructure,” acknowledged Ignacio Gastón, CEO of Ferrovial Building. “Some of our most iconic initiatives would possibly per chance presumably even be realized in such cities as London, Sydney and Madrid.”
“We are joyful to had been chosen for this mission, our biggest contribution to the Huge Paris Explicit initiative to this level, because it further strengthens our enormous presence at the coronary heart of this main mission,” acknowledged Benoît Moncade, frequent manager of Spie Batignolles Génie Civil. “It’s a ways furthermore a tribute to the skills and technical skills of our groups, who had been working on the Metro for the final six years.”
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