The metro is the urban transport by excellence. Ferrovial has designed, built tunnels, laid tracks and excavated stations in some of the world’s major cities. Madrid, London, Lisbon, Barcelona, Santiago, Oporto, are some of these places. Now Ferrovial faces the challenge of working in Toronto, Sydney and Paris. And it will do so while respecting unique buildings.
THE CONTRACT
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Client:Grand Paris Express
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Type:design and construction
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Partners:Spie Batignoles
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Project value:420 M€
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Duration:2022-2029
THE PROJECT
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Diameter:9.10 m
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Depth:45 m
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TBM:1
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Excavation:755,000 m3
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Concrete:178,000 m3
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Steel:15,000 t
THE MANAGER
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Albert Molné
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Education:Civil Engineer, Business Administration and Management, IESE Business School
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Joined Ferrovial: 1995
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Projects:
- Barcelona Metro Line 9
- Grand Parkway Houston
- NTI Dallas
- LHT Perpignan
The use of a Variable Density TBM will help to minimize the settlements at Versailles.
project manager
THE CONTRACT
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Client:Ontario Transit Group
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Type:design, construction and financing
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Partners:Vinci Construction Grands Projects
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Project value:4,450 M€
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Duration:2022-2030
THE PROJECT
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Diameter:6.83 m
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Depth:> 35 m
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TBMs:2 twins
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Machinery:conventional excavation of tunnels and caverns, gantries and moving cranes, heavy loads, formwork carriages, pile drivers and pile-driving machinery
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Excavation:1,400,000 m3Concrete:275,000 m3Steel:25,000 t
THE MANAGER
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Ricardo Ferreras
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Education:Civil Engineer. IESE and IE Business schools
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Joined Ferrovial:2002
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Projects:
- Guadarrama Tunnels
- Pajares Tunnel
- High Speed Basque Y Tunnels
- Venta de Baños High Speed Railway Viaducts
- Valladolid-Palencia High Speed Railway Track Assembly
- Peña Rayada Tunnel
- Thames Tideway Tunnel
- HS2 London-Birmingham
The biggest challenge is the logistics and planning to efficiently execute a project of this magnitude in the center of a city like Toronto.
Ricardo Ferreras,
project manager
THE CONTRACT
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Client:Sydney Metro
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Type:design and construction
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Partners:Acciona
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Project value:1,200 M€
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Duration:2021-2025
THE PROJECT
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Diameter:7.01 m
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Depth:max. 92 m
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TBMs:2 double-shield twins
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Machinery:2 TBMs, 4 roadheaders, gantry cranes, carousel and molds
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Excavation:1,700,000 m3
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Concrete:175,000 m3
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Steel:10,500 t and 4,000 t fibers
THE MANAGER
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David García Azaña
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Education:Civil Engineer
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Joined Ferrovial:1998 and 2016
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Projects:
- Extension of Line 4 Barcelona metro
- Construction of line 12 Madrid metro
- Extension of Line 1 Madrid metro
- Sanchinarro light train (Madrid)
- Boadilla light railway workshops and depots (Madrid)
- Tramway Alcalá de Guadaíra (Seville)
- Malaga metro
- Train line 229 Gdansk (Poland)
- Batinah highway (Oman)
A project to be executed in a tight time schedule with TBMs launches in a complicated geology.
project manager
SINCE 1927, 200 KILOMETERS BUILT
+190kilometers
168stations