AECOM secures AU$70 million lead designer role to deliver Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel Project
18 October 2018
AECOM: AECOM, a premier, fully integrated global
infrastructure firm, will provide the full range of design services as
part of the
Rail Infrastructure Alliance which today signed a contract with the
Victorian Government worth approximately AU$1 billion. The project is
expected to be worth approximately AU$70 million to AECOM and will
support the delivery of the AU$11 billion
Melbourne Metro Tunnel Project.
The Rail Infrastructure Alliance consists of
CPB Contractors and
John
Holland, with AECOM as the design partner, as well as project owner
Rail
Projects Victoria and
rail franchisee
Metro Trains Melbourne. AECOM’s
affiliates will design all elements of the project, including
tunnel
entrances, brownfield rail network enhancements and station
improvements. AECOM’s affiliates will also be responsible for obtaining
the various planning and environmental
approvals relating to the upgrade
of the rail network and helping to minimise the projects impacts.
“This is a highly complex and challenging design brief, which will
connect the new 9 km Metro tunnels to the existing live rail corridors
bringing the trains above ground and allowing them to seamlessly
continue their journey along the network,” said Todd Battley, AECOM’s
chief executive of Australia and
New Zealand.
The Rail Infrastructure Alliance has started preparatory works,
including geotechnical, service and site investigations, at Kensington,
South Yarra and West Footscray, to inform planning and design of the
western and eastern tunnel portals that will connect with new stations
at Arden Street, Parkville, CBD North, CBD South and Domain.
“We have already begun to mobilise combined local and global teams to
bring the best of AECOM’s tunnel portal design, geotechnical and urban
heavy rail capability to this transformational project. Once complete it
will keep a growing
Melbourne moving and leave a lasting legacy of rail
design expertise, which
Victoria can export to the world.
It is expected that over 1,000 people will work on the Rail
Infrastructure Alliance package of works, including almost 100
apprentices, trainees and engineering cadets.
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