Type of work

Airports

d’Envalira Tunnel

Andorra

  • d’Envalira Tunnel
  • d’Envalira Tunnel
  • Toll
  • inside tunnel
  • information posters
  • inside tunnel
  • d’Envalira Tunnel
  • d’Envalira Tunnel
  • Toll
  • inside tunnel
  • information posters
  • inside tunnel

Description

The d´Envalira tunnel is the highest in Europe and aorms a road connection between the north of the Andorra and the south of France. It consists of a single 2.87 kilometers tunnel with a single carriage way. This tunnel was excavated from the two mouths simultaneously using the New Method Austrian (NATM). Excavation methods varied from the use of explosives in areas of harder rock and machine excavation in more suitable strata.

Responsible

Respect and conservation of the natural environment has been guaranteed.

Highlights

The tunnel d´Envalira is one of the main vehicle access channels in the central Pyrenees area and the
only underground passage that connects Andorra to France.

Type of work

Airports

Riyadh Metro

Saudi Arabia

This was globally the largest contract in the history of
underground construction.

This was globally the largest contract in the history of
underground construction.

  • Interior Metro de Riyadh
  • Inside Riyadh Metro
  • Riyadh Metro Facade
  • Outside Riyadh Metro
  • Outside Riyadh Metro
  • Riyadh Metro Escalators
  • glass window
  • Interior Metro de Riyadh
  • Inside Riyadh Metro
  • Riyadh Metro Facade
  • Outside Riyadh Metro
  • Outside Riyadh Metro
  • Riyadh Metro Escalators
  • glass window

Description

The project includes the construction of three metro lines in the city of Riyadh that will consist of a
total of 25 stations.

This third batch consists of the design and construction of lines 4 (yellow), 5 (green) and 6 (purple), which include twenty-five stations for which a total of 65 kilometers of subway tracks, 24 viaducts, 28 underground tracks and 13 surface tracks will be necessary .

The consortium, lead by FCC, are going to employ two TBMs of 9.77 metres diameter to construct the line 5 (green). The trains that will be travelling along these lines will have two carriages, operate without drivers and be supplied by Alstom. There will be four types of stations, elevated, surface, underground and transfer for connections between the various lines.

Responsible

This new public service transport will provide the opportunity to transform the City of Riyadh. The new transport infrastructure will reduce traffic congestion, reinforce and promote the economy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and improve the quality of life of its people.

The Riyadh population currently stands at 5.7 million inhabitants, with a projection of 8.3 million in 2030. The metro is a solution to the daily traffic problems, with 7.4 movements, of which only 2% is actually made in public transport. 

The works execution period will be five years and the construction will provide jobs for over 15,000 people.

Highlights

  • The largest metro project in the world.
  • FCC is contributing wide experience in metro construction.
  • It is the largest extension of subway development in the world.
  • It solves the traffic problems caused by the more than 7 million trips that are made daily.

Type of work

Airports

Riyadh Metro Lines 4, 5 and 6

Saudi Arabia

  • Riyadh Metro Lines 4, 5 and 6 tunnel boring machine
  • Riyadh Metro Lines 4, 5 and 6 tunnel boring machine

Description

The construction of lines 4, 5 and 6 of the Riyadh metro comprises 64 kilometers of which 22.6 are underground.

  • Line 4 (yellow): 6.22 kilometers was built by the “Cut & Cover” system.
  • Line 5 (green), used two TBMs (Tunnel Boring Machines) to build a 13.7km line.
  • Line 6 (purple): 3.12 kilometers of tunnel executed using the “Cut & Cover” system 

Highlights

It is the largest metro project in the developed world by a Spanish company.

Type of work

Airports

Haren Prison

Belgium

  • Facade under construction of Haren Prison
  • Facade under construction of Haren Prison

Description

This contract involves designing, building, financing, operating and maintaining a new prison complex for 25 years in Haren, a municipality in the City of Brussels. It is located near Zaventem airport, the Vilvoorde viaduct and the future shopping centre Uplace in Machelen.

Construction of the Haren prison consists of 108,000 built up square metres on a surface area of 15 hectares, for 1,190 prisoners and 1,000 administrative employees. The perimeter security wall is over 1,200 metres long.

The prison will have fourteen units: two prisons for convicted offenders, six male prisons for arrestees, two female ones, both open and closed, one for young offenders, one for psychiatry and one prison hospital. It also includes an entrance complex, a main building with a visitors' area, hearings area, a detainee settlement complex, a national transfer complex and a sports area. Other service buildings will include a control and intervention area, an area for security forces, a workshop area for the inmates, a logistics area, administration areas, as well as car parks for employees and visitors.

The building typology is common for this type of building: pile foundations, walls and reinforced concrete structure, facades and typical roofing. The high levels of safety required in terms of fires, safe use and integral accessibility must be taken into account.

Haren is the first concessions project won by FCC in Belgium. It joins the list of many other national and international projects carried out within the social and health care sector, including hospitals and courts.

IJ Global Awards 2018

Best Social Infrastructure Project

Highlights

  • Alongside a local partner, FCC is in charge of designing and building the Haren prison which on completion will be the largest in Belgium.
  • Haren is the first project FCC has invested in as a concessionaire in Belgium.
  • It will replace the obsolete prisons of Saint-Gilles, Vorst and Berkendael, located in the City of Brussels.
  • The building was designed to fulfil the Belgian government's vision of offering a human prison, guaranteeing the required levels of safety and security.

Type of work

Airports

Açu Port

Brazil

The largest port in America

The largest port in America

  • Construction on the quay
  • Second caisson cargo
  • Caisson tug in Brazil
  • Dique flotante Mar del Aneto
  • Mar del Aneto floating dock
  • Second caisson cargo in Algeciras
  • Açu Port
  • Construction on the quay
  • Second caisson cargo
  • Caisson tug in Brazil
  • Dique flotante Mar del Aneto
  • Mar del Aneto floating dock
  • Second caisson cargo in Algeciras
  • Açu Port

Description

It is located 315 kilometers north of Rio de Janeiro. It is the third largest port in the world and the largest in America. This is a deep-water port with a total expected transport capacity of 350 million tons of cargo per year.

The project involves the construction of a 2438 meters vertical dyke, which was executed by manufacturing and anchoring of 49 reinforced concrete segments. One section of dike was also placed in the 600 meters long slope. The first 9 segments were manufactured in the Port of
Algeciras and were transported to the site on semisubmersible barges.