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Largest deal ever for Volvo Buses in Colombia

Volvo Bus Latin America has recently sold 688 bus chassis to the capitol of Colombia, Bogotá. It’s the company’s largest deal ever in Colombia. The deal encompasses chassis for conventional buses as well as articulated and biarticulated buses.

The new vehicles were sold for the third phase expansion of Transmilenio in Bogotá, the continent’s most efficient and advanced BRT-system. BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) is the acronym for high-capacity bus-based urban transportation systems – a cost efficient alternative to rail-bound transport systems.

In total the deal encompasses 688 chassis including 48 articulated and 97 biarticulated vehicles that will operate the trunk lines of Transmilenio. The remaining over 500 chassis will be used for low entry buses, operating conventional lines and feeder lines. These are the first low floor buses to be used in Bogotá enabling access by wheelchairs to public transportation. Visit: www.volvo.com

Imtech receives €77 million order for

waste processing plant in Warsaw

Imtech (IM-AE, technical services provider in and outside Europe) has been commissioned by Finalsa SA for the realisation of all technical solutions in one of the most advanced waste processing plants in the world. This plant will be built near Warsaw in Poland and is capable of processing approximately 120,000 tonnes of waste per year – more than 400 tonnes of waste per day. Ecology and energy efficiency are key elements here. The waste processing plant is not only completely self-sufficient in energy, but also produces extra energy, residual fuels and recyclable materials.

René van der Bruggen, CEO Imtech, says: “Imtech is the market leader in energy efficiency in Germany and Poland. The majority of our orders are characterised by the presence of a component of energy efficiency and or energy management. Waste processing plants are one of the Imtech specialisations.”

The city of Warsaw produces about 800,000 tonnes of MSW per year, so Imtech’s new waste processing plant will process 15 per cent of the total amount of waste produced by the nearly 2 million residents of the Polish capital. Visit: www.imtech.eu

Balfour Beatty wins £50 million Olympic Park Legacy contract

Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, has won a ten-year deal to run services and facilities for the future Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in East London.

Under the terms of the contract, Balfour Beatty will have overall responsibility for a range of services including estates and facilities management as well as operating the ArcelorMittal Orbit, the stunning new visitor attraction forming a centrepiece of what is earmarked as a great new park for London.

More than 200 new jobs are to be created through the deal with most of these filled by people from the local community, where Balfour Beatty’s training and support schemes will secure new long-term career opportunities in East London.

The contract value is £50 million over the next ten years, although further scope extensions under discussion between Balfour Beatty WorkPlace and the Olympic Park Legacy Company may see the long-term value of the wider Olympic Park work grow significantly beyond the initial operational phase. The first phase starts with the opening of this summer’s Olympic Games. Visit: www.balfourbeatty.com

AREVA to upgrade the monitoring and control safety systems for 20 EDF reactors

EDF has awarded AREVA with a contract worth more than €600 million to upgrade the monitoring and control systems which guarantee the safety of its 1300MW power plants (Paluel, Flamanville, Saint-Alban, Cattenom, Belleville, Nogent sur Seine, Golfech and Penly).

The work, to be carried out on 20 reactors, is an integral part of EDF’s industrial programme for the continuous improvement of its nuclear installations. The aim is to enhance the performance of the monitoring and control systems, which guarantee nuclear safety.

The first tranche of the works will commence in 2015, to coincide with the third 10-yearly reactor inspections. The 1300MW reactor monitoring and control system was the first in the world to see digital technology used in nuclear power plants. As the principal contractor, AREVA will draw on its extensive expertise and will be working primarily with its partner, ROLLS ROYCE, whose teams are based in Grenoble, to supply the majority of the technology associated with this contract. Visit: www.edf.com

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Major steel structure contract for Ruukki

Ruukki has signed a contract worth around €5 million for the total delivery of a new mail terminal to be built in Hallsberg, central Sweden. The new building will total around 30,000 square metres. The order was placed with Ruukki by NCC Construction Sverige AB, the main contractor in the project.

Ruukki’s total delivery comprises the steel frame, façades and load-bearing roof structures. Ruukki is also responsible for structural design and installation.

Sweden Post plans to make Hallsberg in Central Sweden the hub of mail sorting and to switch from air cargo to railway freight, which is more environmentally friendly. In this respect, Hallsberg is ideally placed. The building will also serve as a train loading and discharging terminal.

Ruukki will begin installation work at the site in January 2012, Installation work is expected to last about six months. The building is scheduled for completion during 2012.

The frame will be made at Ruukki’s plant in Peräseinäjoki, the façade panels in Alajärvi and the roof profiles in Vimpeli, Finland. The contract also includes delivery and installation of the hollow core slabs and plinth elements for the building. Visit: www.ruukki.com

Opcon Powerbox – first order in Hungary

Opcon has received its first order in Hungary for a steam-driven Opcon Powerbox WST that will produce fuel-free, carbon-free electricity from waste heat after installation at the Russian owned ISD Dunaferr steel plant in Dunaújváros, Hungary. Responsible for the installation is Opcon’s Hungarian partner Elco Group, a renowned engineering company that sells, installs and services turn-key solutions in the field of electricity.

The order for one Opcon Powerbox WST is the first in a planned application with installation of five Opcon Powerboxes (3 WST and 2 ORC) at the ISD Dunaferr steel mill. Initially waste surplus steam will be used for fuel-free electricity production from an Opcon Powerbox WST. Delivery is scheduled for spring 2012. In total, ISD Dunaferr expects there to be room for more than the five Opcon Powerboxes presently being planned for in further applications. Two of the applications that are being studied prefeatures a serial installation of a steam-powered and a water-powered Opcon Powerbox in order to optimise electricity production utilising waste heat from surplus steam as well as flue gases. Visit: www.opcon.se

ÅF AB selects AVEVA as principal engineering design solution

AVEVA, a leader in engineering design and information management solutions for the plant, power and process industries, has announced that ÅF AB, one of Sweden’s leading contractor and industry groups, will use AVEVA Plant as its principal design portfolio. ÅF AB has realised major cost and time savings using AVEVA PDMS for 3D design since it was first deployed in 2000. Under the terms of the new agreement, ÅF AB will now roll out AVEVA Plant across all new large and medium sized design projects. Working within a number of sectors, including paper, chemical, energy, petrochemical and pharmaceuticals, ÅF AB provides customers with profitable energy solutions. Projects include new paper machines, biomass power plants, nuclear, thermal and renewables.

“We selected AVEVA PDMS not only because we know it will always get the job done, but also because it is the most established design tool on the market being used both by our customers and machine suppliers,” said Per Högberg, CAD Coordinator, ÅF AB. Visit: www.aveva.com

Aker Solutions wins Bøyla subsea contract

Aker Solutions has signed a contract with Marathon Oil Norge AS to supply a subsea production system for the operator’s Bøyla project on the Norwegian continental shelf. The contract value is around NOK 210 million.

The scope of work includes engineering, procurement, construction and delivery of four subsea trees, four over-trawlable subsea structures and control systems. The Bøyla field is located south-west of the Alvheim field and will be tied back to the Alvheim FPSO.

The engineering and manufacturing of the subsea trees will be primarily performed at Aker Solutions’ technology centre at Tranby, Norway. The engineering of the over-trawlable structures will be carried out at Aker Solutions headquarters in Fornebu, Norway. The subsea control systems will be delivered out of Aberdeen, UK. Installation and commissioning will be handled by Aker Solutions’ service base at Aagotnes, Norway.

Aker Solutions’ contract party is Aker Subsea AS. The contract has been signed and booked as order intake in Q4 2011. Visit: www.akersolutions.com