Bechtel gets Crossrail

摘要

Bechtel has been awarded the Project Delivery Partner contract for the US$23.5bn Crossrail project which involves major tunnelling works through the centre of London. It is supported by Halcrow and Systra.rnThe US firm beat three shortlisted rival parties for the US$590M contract, which is to help the client, Cross London Rail Links Ltd (CLRL), to meet standards, time and budget. The contract will also require Bechtel to provide extra key staff to support the core client team.rnConstruction of the East-West rail scheme calls for excavation of a total of 41.5km of 6m i.d. twin tube tunnels by TBM. Main construction works begin in 2010 for rail services to commence inrn2017. The first tunnel drives are programmed to start in 2011, and planning so far has suggested seven TBMs will be required.rnBids for the Project Delivery Partner contract were submitted in January from four parties: Bechtel; Legacy 3 (a consortium of Parsons Brinckerhoff, Balfour Beatty Management and Davis Langdon Programme Management); Laing O'Rourke Holdings; and, a joint venture cf Capita Symonds and Northcroft.rnCLRL also recently appointed Transcend, the JV of Aeccm, CH2M Hill and Nichois Group, to be Programme Partner for the scheme. The contract is worth approximately US$148M, said the client (T&TI, March, p11). Bechtel and supportingrnpartners were shortlisted to be Programme Partner. The other shortlisted party was Legacy 3.