HS2 C1 ALIGN JV - Structural Steel at Shaft Head Houses and Portal Buildings (Supply & Install)

Tender description

The Contractor (Align JV) has identified a package of works for the supply and installation of Primary Steel associated with our works on the Chiltern Tunnels Shaft Head Houses and Portal Buildings. The scope of works will include the undertaking of shop drawings, manufacture, supply, delivery and required plant and cranage to install approx. 260T of primary steelwork. This includes all steel columns, beams and bracing elements supporting the roof and all connections to the headhouse and portal buildings RC elements. The subcontractor will be responsible for the connection design and the design of fixings between steelwork and RC elements. The package will be competitively tendered and assessed against a split between commercial (price) and defined technical criteria. In July 2017, ALIGN (Bouygues Travaux Publics, Sir Robert McAlpine and Volker Fitzpatrick) won the significant C1 package of the UK High Speed 2 line (HS2). Lot C1 consists of 21.6km of high speed rail infrastructure in a rural environment. This will include a 3.37km viaduct, 15.75km twin-tubes tunnel and five vent shafts handling both piston effect and tunnel ventilation.