Civil contractors get £600m CTRL boost

The hard-pressed civil engineering sector has been given a boost with the announcement that a dozen organisations have been invited to tender for five contracts, worth £600m, that form part of the second section of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. The work includes 20km of tunnelling to take high-speed trains from Ebbsfleet in north Kent under the River Thames through east London and into a new terminal at St Pancras.

Client Union Railways plans to award the contracts in early 2001. Each contract includes a pre-construction period of up t



BOXTEXT: Contract 250 (Little Ilford to Dagenham)

Edmund Nuttall/Wayss & Freytag/Kier Construction.

Miller Group/Dumez/Beton and Monierbau.

Hochtief/J Murphy.

Costain/Skanska/Bachy Soletanche.

Contract 320 (Thames tunnels including approaches from Thurrock and Swanscombe)

Edmund Nuttall/Wayss & Freytag/Kier Construction.

Campenon Bernard.

Hochtief/J Murphy.

Mowlem/Bouygues/Besix.

*Section one of CTRL is scheduled for completion in 2003 with the second section due to finish in 2007.



BOXTEXT: Contract 220 (from Kings Cross to Stratford box)

Balfour Beatty/Amec Civil Engineering.

Miller Group/Dumez/Beton and Monierbau.

Nishimatsu Construction/Kvaerner Construction.

Nesco Entrecanales Cubiertas/Galliford.

Contract 230 (Stratford box)

Carillion/Bachy Soletanche.

Mowlem/Bouygues/Besix.

Kvaerner Construction.

Nesco Entrecanales Cubiertas/Galliford.

Contract 240 (Stratford to Little Ilford)

Balfour Beatty/Amec Civil Engineering;

Campenon Bernard.

Nishimatsu Construction/Kvaerner Construction.

Costain/Skanska/Bachy Soletanche.

Contract 250 (Little Ilford to Dagenham)

Edmund Nuttall/Wayss & Freytag/Kier Construction.

Miller Group/Dumez/Beton and Monierbau.

Hochtief/J Murphy.

Costain/Skanska/Bachy Soletanche.

Contract 320 (Thames tunnels including approaches from Thurrock and Swanscombe)

Edmund Nuttall/Wayss & Freytag/Kier Construction.

Campenon Bernard.

Hochtief/J Murphy.

Mowlem/Bouygues/Besix.

*Section one of CTRL is scheduled for completion in 2003 with the second section due to finish in 2007.