FRANCE: Toulouse transport authority Tisséo has awarded a 65:35 consortium of Eiffage and NGE a €233m contract for civil works on the Colomiers – Laporte section of the automated metro Line C project.
Designated Lot 1, this includes 3·9 km of tunnel, three stations and ancillary structures such as connecting shafts.
The tunnels will be lined with fibre-reinforced concrete tunnel segments requiring 95% less steel than other designs.
In February the consortium was awarded the €589m Lot 2 contract which covers the 8·4 km between Laporte and Raynal.
Construction of Line C was launched in December 2022, with opening planned for 2028. It will run from 27 km from Colomiers railway station in the west of the city to Labège in the southeast, with 21 stations.
