Sandvik announces bumper order
9 July 2015AUSTRALIA – The Lend Lease – Bouygues joint venture has ordered 19 roadheaders for the NorthConnex highway tunnel project in Sydney. Some 13 of these will be supplied by Sandvik, marking the biggest order of tunnel roadheaders for the company since Sochi five years ago.
Models ordered are: six MT720 units, one MT620 and six MT520 units.
The Lend Lease - Bouygues Joint Venture (LLB JV) was formed originally to construct the East West Link project in Melbourne and NorthConnex. The group was the successful bidder on both projects, but following the cancellation of the East West Link project the focus switched to NorthConnex.
The NSW Government, Transurban and the M7 Westlink Shareholders (the Project Sponsors) are in process to build, operate and maintain a tolled motorway linking the M1 Pacific Motorway at Wahroonga to the Hills M2 Motorway at West Pennant Hills - called NorthConnex. When complete, it will link Sydney's north to the Orbital network, and form part of the National Highway route. The scheme includes twin motorway tunnels around nine kilometres in length, with two lanes and a breakdown lane in each direction, as well as an increased height clearance of 5.3m with a speed limit of 80 km/h. Each tunnel will be built with long term capacity for three lanes, but will initially operate with two lanes and a breakdown lane in each direction
