New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) awarded the Joint Venture led by Judlau (70%) with TC Electric a EUR 477 million contract for the rehabilitation and capacity improvement of the Canarsie Tunnel in New York. Judlau is a subsidiary of the OHL Group that performed major projects for the MTA valuated at EUR 3.7 billion.
The JV will perform civil work for rehabilitating the tunnel, repairing the defects and replacing the roadbed, tracks, sleepers and other elements. The project includes the modernisation of structures, energy, lighting, signals and communications components in the tunnel. In addition, the team will carry out excavations, relocation of utilities, upgrades and reinforcements of the First Avenue station in Manhattan and of the Bedford station in Brooklyn. As a preventive measure, flood mitigation and protection systems will be installed for reducing the risk of future flooding and for protecting the critical components. The project will increase the frequency of the trains on the New York Metro’s L Line.
The Canarsie Tunnel is the main connection between Brooklyn and Manhattan and serves the busy metro L line. This project includes the rehabilitation of the Canarsie Tunnel following the devastation of hurricane Sandy together with the upgrade of the capacity of the First Avenue and Bedford Avenue metro stations and the construction of a new Avenue B substation.
Judlau and TC Electric are working on 8 projects connected with hurricane Sandy damages for a number of agencies of the MTA, totaling EUR 1.1 billion. Five of these projects are directly related to the repair and reinforcement of five different tunnels.
In 2012, hurricane Sandy caused serious damage to New York’s infrastructures. During the storm, the Canarsie Tunnel was flooded, and a large part of the electricity and communications equipment and subsystems were damaged.
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