Indian engineering and construction company Larsen & Toubro announced that its automation unit, L&T Electrical & Automation FZE, has won an order from Qatar Rail Company for Phase One of the Doha Metro. The scope of the order encompasses supply, installation, testing, integration, commissioning and five years’ maintenance of a network-wide building automation and control systems (BACS) for 37 stations. The value of the order is QR278 million (USD 76.2 million).
The frame agreement awarded by QRail to L&T Electrical & Automation FZE is through nine contracts with design-and-build contractors for the stations and tunnels under multiple lines (Red, Green and Gold lines) and a five-year maintenance contract directly with Qatar Rail.
The main aim of BACS is to control and supervise MEP (mechanical, electrical and plumbing) systems, acquire and display MEP equipment status and alarms, provide reliable and effective third-party interfacing services, storage and offline/online analysis of MEP systems acquired data, enable testing and commissioning of the systems.
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