CANADA’S DESSAU TO BUILD ALGERIAN LINE
Posted on 05 February 2010
Canadian engineering firm Dessau has won a $38.8 million contract to conduct the preliminary and final design for the construction of a 170km double track between Algiers and Constantine in Algeria’s north-east. The contract is part of a $2.3 billion government project.
The contract was awarded by a consortium comprising China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation and Turkish partner Ozgun Construction. Both freight and passenger services will use the line, running at a maximum 160km/h.
Dessau’s team of 50 Canadian and Algerian engineers will be responsible for designing bridges, viaducts, underpasses and overpasses, drainage structures, road and railway reconstruction, signalling and telecommunications facilities.
Founded in 1957, privately owned Dessau is the second-largest engineering construction firm in Quebec. It is the fifth largest in Canada and one of the 100 largest in the world, with annual sales of $600 million and 4,300 employees.
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