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New contracts and orders in industry
Veidekke to build more flats at Rodeløkka
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eidekke Entreprenør AS has been awarded the contract from Veidekke Eiendom AS to build stage 2 of the Konfektfabrikken housing project at Rodeløkka in Oslo. The contract comprises building 50 new flats with a total sales value of more than NOK 150 million excluding VAT. In December Veidekke started building the first stage of the housing project consisting of 84 flats with a total sales value of NOK 260 million. In April 2011 the sale of the 50 flats in stage two started. As of 31 May 2011, 112 of a total of 134 flats in stages 1 and 2 have been sold with a total sales value of NOK 333 million. “Building of stage two has just commenced, and the flats are to be ready in December 2012,” says project developer Tor Nordstrøm of Veidekke Eiendom. Four building stages are planned with a total of 253 flats, with an estimated sales value of more than NOK 900 million. Stage 3 is expected to be put on the market in the autumn of 2011, followed by stage 4 in the spring of 2012. Visit: www.veidekke.com
Alstom unites business processes with ENOVIA Version 6 collaborative platform
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assault Systèmes has announced that Alstom has selected its Version 6 PLM platform to improve end to end business processes. As a first step in this major transformation, Alstom Transport will leverage Dassault Systèmes’ ENOVIA Version 6 to unify its different sites under a unique, worldwide platform enabling its employees to efficiently collaborate on customer projects. Alstom is consolidating its PLM system in
order to streamline information sharing, increase its manufacturing capacity and reduce time-tomarket. Looking for maximum efficiency and ROI, Alstom chose Dassault Systèmes’ ENOVIA Version 6 for its flexible, open PLM backbone providing the unique ability to implement the ‘Design Once, Manufacture Anywhere concept’ across business lines, as well as its multi-disciplinary collaboration capabilities. ENOVIA Version
6 will be deployed to 3500 users. “We are pleased that Alstom has chosen to consolidate its investment in Version 6,” said Sylvain Laurent, executive vice-president, PLM Enterprise Business Transformation, Dassault Systèmes. “Alstom will benefit from a single platform for intellectual property management, improved internal and external collaboration.” Visit: www.3ds.com
Bouygues Construction signs contract for the new French Defence Ministry
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ouygues Bâtiment Ile-de-France and Exprimm, forming part of Opale-Défense, have won a contract to finance, design and construct the
MTL Group awarded major offshore renewables contract
MTL
Group, one of Europe’s leading project manufacturing companies, has been awarded a multi-million pound contract to supply 97 boat landing systems to a leading European foundations manufacturer for a German offshore wind farm in the North Sea.
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French Ministry of Defence at Balard, in southwest Paris, along with operation and maintenance of the complex for 30 years. Under the terms of the contract, Bouygues Bâtiment Ile-de-France will coordinate the design and construction, for a total amount of €745 million. For Exprimm, the facilities management subsidiary of ETDE (the Energies & Services division of Bouygues Con struction), the contract is worth €534 million. The new ministry will accommodate the Minister of Defence and his special advisors, the office of the joint chiefs of staff, the offices
of the chiefs of staff of the three armed forces, the French defence procurement agency and other military departments and administrative services. In all there will be roughly 9300 people spread over a total surface area of 320,000 m2. As consortium leader, Bouygues Bâtiment Ile-de-France will be the guarantor of the entire designbuild operation (building and systems). Exprimm will be responsible for operating and maintaining the buildings for 27 years from the date of handover. Visit: www.bouygues.com
Specialising in batch fabrications with the ability to manufacture structures up to 400 tonnes in weight, MTL Group is one of the fastest growing project manufacturing specialists in the metals sector and is the UK’s leading secondary steelwork supplier of boat landing systems who also supply working platforms, plate beams and nodes.
Dr Henry Shirman, managing director, said: “This is a major breakthrough for us in the European offshore wind market.” 25 MTL employees will be working on the project at the group’s advanced manufacturing facility in Rotherham. Work is due to commence in July 2011 with the final delivery of boat landings to be delivered by March 2012 Visit: www.mtlgrp.com
