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The Bromford tunnel is a high-speed railway tunnel under construction in North Warwickshire and Birmingham, England, and will serve to bring the High Speed 2 rail line into Birmingham upon completion. The 5.6 km (3.5 miles) twin-bore tunnels will be situated between Water Orton and Washwood Heath.
It was designed and constructed by Balfour Beatty on 2.6 hectares (6.4 acres) of land and consists of a three-line workshop building, six stabling sidings, a turning loop, engineers sidings and sundry equipment. [citation needed] Before the arrival of Supertram, the site was already dedicated to the railway industry.
Balfour Beatty also has interests in non PPP assets in the United Kingdom. Balfour Beatty is a member of several industry and trade bodies, associations and institutions. These include, for example, the CECA, the Nuclear Industry Association, the Rail Industry Association and Women into Construction. [75]
The infrastructure works component of the project was originally awarded to DRB-Hicom Berhad in 2000 [2] for a value of RM2,579,920,005, while Mitsui of Japan was awarded the electrification and signalling component of the project worth RM1.9 billion supported by its principle sub-contractor, Siemens-Balfour Beatty Consortium. The contract ...
Edgar Allen Engineering Limited, the suppliers of cast manganese trackwork for railway and tramway systems throughout the world, including the Sheffield Supertram system became part of the Balfour Beatty group in the 1990s. In February 2010 it was announced that the facilities in Sheffield would close in May 2010 with the work being transferred ...
In December 1995, Amtrak awarded a $321 million contract to Balfour Beatty Construction, Inc./Mass. Electric Construction (BBC/MEC) to verify and complete the Morrison-Knudsen design and build the electrification system. The system was to be completed by June 1999; electrification system ground-breaking ceremony took place the following July.
The project was designed by Will Alsop and built by Balfour Beatty. The work also included the installation of a roof covered with photovoltaic solar panels. It is the largest of only three solar bridges in the world (the others being Kennedy Bridge in Bonn, Germany, and Kurilpa Bridge in Australia).
Between Papakura, Newmarket, Britomart and Swanson there were 196 single-track kilometres. The overhead infrastructure design was to be based on Balfour Beatty's 3B English design. [1] [2] [3] The contract for 57 3-car EMUs was awarded on 6 October 2011 to Spanish manufacturer CAF. [4]