Entrepose Contracting, Vinci Construction Grands Projets and Taylor Woodrow all Vinci Construction subsidiaries have been awarded an EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contract by National Grid to construct a 190,000 cu m liquefied natural gas (LNG) tank in the United Kingdom. This project is part of the programme to expand the capacity of .
Three Vinci subsidiaries have secured a £176m contract with National Grid to build a 190,000 cubic metre liquefied natural gas tank.
The firms – Entrepose Contracting, Vinci Construction Grands Projets and Taylor Woodrow – will work together on the project to expand the capacity of the largest liquified natural gas terminal in Europe on the Isle of Grain in Kent. National Grid has awarded an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to the firms, with works due to run until 2025.
Vinci said the full containment tank has a 9 per cent nickel steel inner tank with a pre-stressed concrete outer shell, which will be poured in-situ using slipforming. The French-owned contractor has been involved in the construction of around 20 liquified natural gas tanks worldwide over the past 15 years, three of which are still in progress. These include two 160,000 square-metre tanks in Russia and a 225,000 square-metre facility in Canada.
NCE’s Tunnelling Festival in December 2020.
In this session, CMT Copenhagen Metro Team technical and design director Georgios Kafantaris and Vinci Construction Grands Projets project director Aurélien Delevoye explain the innovation at the centre of Copenhagen’s Cityringen Metro.
The pair discuss the challenges of tunnelling in contaminated ground and reveal how the project team is embracing innovation to mitigate risk.
The Cityringen Metro is a loop line of the Copenhagen Metro. It is the largest construction project to have taken place in Copenhagen during the last 400 years.
The network s total length is 15.5km and has 17 stations.
HS2 ‘sheriffs’ to keep contractors in check
HS2 Ltd is to deploy 13 senior leaders along the line’s Phase One route between London and the West Midlands to ensure that its contractors comply with assurances it and the Department for Transport have made.
HS2 Ltd chief executive Mark Thurston revealed that the roles have been created to ensure better alignment between HS2 Ltd’s construction pledges and its contractors’ actions.
The announcement was made at a government cross-party transport select committee meeting in which MPs, local councillors and senior environmental figures called for independent “sheriffs” to ensure contractors working on HS2 are kept in check.
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