FCC Construcción

FCC wins the contract for a section of London’s Crossrail

The consortium made up of Alpine BeMo Tunnelling GMBH, an Austrian subsidiary of FCC, Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Ltd, Morgan Sindall (Infrastructure) and VINCI Construction has secured the contract for a section of Crossrail, the new underground railway link being built in London.

The contract, which includes the construction of the access shafts and caverns of the Whitechapel and Liverpool Street stations, is worth 250 million pounds (300 million euro).

Crossrail will cover 118 kilometres from Maidenhead and Heathrow in the west to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east, through 21 kilometres of new twin-bore tunnels beneath the centre of London.

When it goes into service, it will enable an additional 1.5 million people to reach the main business areas in 45 minutes and will increase the London railway systems' transport capacity by 10%.

The Crossrail project is the most significant tunnel construction work to be done in the United Kingdom since the Jubilee Line Extension and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.