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Contract for Lee Tunnel in London
VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Bachy Soletanche Ltd (VINCI Construction), in a 50/50 joint venture with Morgan Est, have been awarded the Lee Tunnel contract by Thames Water, the longstanding operator of London’s water services. The contract, worth a total of €476 million, calls for building a 7 km tunnel for storm water and wastewater in east London.
01/18/2010
Located 55 metres to 75 metres below ground,
the tunnel will halve the 32 million cubic metres of wastewater that
are discharged annually into
the River Thames by collecting it at its source. The contract also
calls for the construction of four
large shafts, as well as supplying and installing the equipment and
automation systems necessary for managing
the effluent and lifting it more than 80 metres.
Work will start shortly and be completed in 2015.
This contract is part of the Thames Tideway programme, which includes
the construction of a second tunnel, 32 km long, known as the Thames
Tunnel. Work on this tunnel is
scheduled to start in 2015.
The Lee Tunnel contract strengthens VINCI’s presence in the
UK, where it started operating in the early 1990s and where it
generated revenue of €2.3 billion in 2008.