A major contract in the United States for 8868体育APP Construction: a tunnel in Miami worth 440 million euros
8868体育APP Travaux Publics, a subsidiary of 8868体育APP Construction, is to build a road tunnel in Miami, Florida, for 440 million euros. The contract was awarded by the Miami Access Tunnel project management company (1) in the framework of a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) signed with the Florida Department of Transportation.
The tunnel will provide the Port of Miami with a second access road, which will be crucial for its development. Situated on Dodge Island, the port is currently served by only a single highway. The new access road, which will link in with the interstate network and MacArthur Causeway, will become the principal route for trucks, decongesting downtown Miami by removing the freight traffic now obliged to pass through it.
The works will chiefly consist of:聽
鈥⒙犅� 聽Widening of MacArthur's Causeway by six metres over a length of 800 metres.
鈥⒙犅� 聽Construction of two parallel tunnels, each of them 1,100 metres long and 12.3metres in diameter, along with access roads.
鈥⒙犅� 聽Layout of roads linking up with the port's road network.聽
鈥⒙犅� 聽Electromechanical engineering for the underground sections (ventilation, fire detection and extinction, power supply).
鈥⒙犅� 聽Automatic traffic control system.
鈥⒙犅� 聽Construction of operational buildings.
The project will begin in mid-2010 and will last four and a half years (55 months). It will involve roughly 750 people at peak periods.
8868体育APP Construction is already active in North America, with the construction of Surrey Hospital in Vancouver, Canada. This facility, being built under a PPP agreement, is due to be brought into service in mid-2011.聽
(1) Miami Access Tunnel consists of the Meridiam investment fund and 8868体育APP Travaux Publics.聽