Implenia builds metro in the greater Paris area
A consortium led by Implenia has won the contract for a third lot of the Grand Paris Express. The contract is worth the equivalent of around CHF 500 million.
Société du Grand Paris has awarded the Avenir consortium (Arge) the contract for Lot 1 of the new Metro Line 17 North of the Grand Paris Express. The consortium consists of Implenia (commercial management and technical mandate), Demathieu Bard Construction (lead management), Royal BAM Group and Pizzarotti, each with a 25 percent share. According to a statement from Implenia, the contract is worth around 440 million euros, the equivalent of CHF 500 million.
Lot 1 reportedly includes an approximately six-kilometer tunnel, two underground Métro stations (Le Bourget Aéroport and Triangle de Gonesse), six annexes, an intermediate launch shaft in Bonneuil-en-France, and a 750-m-long forebay in Gonesse. The new line would be connected to the urban transport network and partially rebuilt. Construction of the special civil engineering work is scheduled to start in May this year.
Implenia's order portfolio in France now includes three lots of the major Grand Paris Express project, one lot of the HiLumi project for the European Laboratory of Particle Physics (CERN) in Cessy, the extension of Métro Line B in Lyon, and the safety tunnel for the Fréjus Tunnel in Modane. (ah)
