The consortium that participates Acciona has been chosen as the best to carry out the first tranche of the road through the city of Melbourne, as reported Tuesday by local authorities. This project, known as East-West highway, is the largest civil works proposed in the southern country to date. The total value of the contract to which it aspires Acciona, as indicated by the Australian media, ranging between 6,000 and 8,000 million Australian dollars (between 4,300 and 5,700 million euros).
In this type of competition, the result Best Value is a definite step in winning the contract. Now, the opportunity to submit more proposals and closes a period of several weeks is opened for submissions and finalize the technical details, after which he will know the exact amount of the award and the percentage each company assumes the consortium. Acciona has gone along with the French construction firm Bouygues and Australian developer Lend Lease and, backed by the infrastructure fund Capella Capital.
This group of companies, if they confirm their status as favorites, which is almost done, will have to build six miles of track, whose total length is 18 kilometers and its total estimated budget is around 18,000 million Australian dollars (12,900 million euros). The section, explain the local media, is particularly complex because it includes two tunnels with three lanes in each direction each. It is expected that use between 80,000 and 100,000 vehicles per day when it becomes operational in 2019 According to forecasts by the authorities in Melbourne, 3,200 jobs will be created.
The other finalists also had Spanish consortia participation Cintra, a subsidiary of Ferrovial concessions. This confirms that the Spanish engineering and its international reputation continues to rise. The work, in fact, adds to the half dozen flagship projects in which Spain is present as the Mecca-Medina AVE, Riad metro or Panama Canal expansion.
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