Rail Baltic Estonia has signed two construction contracts for three railway crossings along country’s Rail Baltica section. The construction work is expected to start in one month and will be completed by the autumn of 2023.
For the construction Loone ecoduct and Künka road overpass, a EUR 5.3 million contract was signed with YIT Eesti. The length of the eco-product is 80m and the width of the crossing varies between 70m in the center of the crossing, up to 80m at its ends. The total length of the Künka viaduct is a little over 53m and the width is 9.4m.
“This project is among our most ambitious and responsible infrastructure projects for this decade. Our team of top performers will continue to be in the best shape, and our goal is to ensure the timely and high-quality execution of the Loone ecoduct and Künka road overpass construction works, and we will strive to ensure that we can also participate in the next Rail Baltica procurements,” YIT Eesti Board Member Margus Põim said.
A second EUR 2.3 million contract was signed with TREV-2 Grupp which will build the Tagadi road overpass in Kohila. The total length of the Tagadi overpass will be 75 metres and the width
of the viaduct is 9.4m, providing two 3.5m wide lanes.
“The construction of the various Rail Baltica objects and hopefully the main route will certainly start to influence the Estonian infrastructure construction market in the coming years. On the one hand, it challenges both the state as the contracting authority and the market participants, but with smart planning it is a good opportunity for Estonian companies both in terms of overall market size and in terms of the development of engineering competence,” Sven Pertens, Chairman of Board of TREV-2 Grupp said.
Saustinõmme overpass is the first crossing of the Rail Baltica line, which is located in Saku, was completed at the beginning of this year.
“At the end of last year, we launched a dynamic procurement system to procure the construction works of Rail Baltica overpasses and ecoducts. Construction companies have responded actively to our procurements and competition has been tight so far. This year we want to sign construction contracts at least for three more crossings and initiate construction procurements for the other objects,” Tõnu Grünberg, Chairman of the Board of Rail Baltic Estonia said.
The construction of Rail Baltica railway crossings begun in Rapla County, Kohila Parish, in western Estonia. At the end of 2020, Estonia awarded a contract for the design of the train depot in Ülemiste.
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