Transport infrastructure / rail
Project
Rail Corridor VIII, New Construction of Railway Section Beljakovce – Kriva Palanka in North Macedonia
Location: North Makedonia
Client: Public Enterprise for Railway Infrastructure of North Macedonia (PEMRI)
Date: 2013-2020
Construction costs: approx. € 120 million
Technical Details
The project involves the rehabilitation and construction of the 35.2 km long railway section between Beljakovce and Kriva Palanka on the Trans-European Railway Corridor VIII between the capital Skopje and the border with Bulgaria. The project implementation originally began in the 1990s but construction came to a halt and the project was left unfinished to a great extent. The Republic of North Macedonia secured funding from EBRD and EIB to revise the designs to meet the current requirements and to complete the construction.
OBERMEYER’s assignment embraces the provision of engineering services in both the design and the tender phase. The section has a total of 40 km tracks, 12 new bridges, 4 new tunnels, 25 existing bridges and 10 existing tunnels, all partly constructed, which require checking and optimization, two stations and 3 stops. The project adheres to the EU interoperability requirements and designs are according to the relevant both Macedonian and European regulations. The tender process to select a contractor for works and services ensures compliance with EBRD’s Procurement Policies and Rules; Works Contract is under FIDIC rules.
Services Provided
The scope of services includes the execution of surveys, the elaboration of all designs for civil works, electrification, signalling, interlocking and telecommunication, the elaboration of the tender documents for procurement of works and services and the Client’s support in the tender process to select a contractor.
Surveys:
- Geodetic (topographical) surveys
- Geotechnical Surveys
Tender Documents:
- Technical part (arising from the approved designs)
- Legal part: Procurement Plan, Tender Documents, Prequalification Documents, Evaluation Reports, Special Conditions of FIDIC Contract
Design:
- Detailed design for all Civil Works (substructure, superstructure, structures)
- Alignment – Substructure – Railway Superstructure
- 34km of single track alignment with ballasted track. 6m wide platform. Concrete sleepers and UIC60 rail
- Secondary tracks at Railway Stations
- 38 Bridges (railway bridges and overpasses)
- Balanced cantilever
- Precast girders
- Prestressed voided slab
- 15 Tunnels
- 12 NATM
- 3 Cut & Cover
- 19 sections with retaining walls (reinforced concrete walls, piled diaphragm walls, MSE walls)
- Drainage (culverts, ditches, stations, access roads, bridge pier protection)
- Formation setting
- Station / Halt and other Structures Architectural, Structural, Electrical, Mechanical, HVAC Designs:
- Station Kratovo
- Station Ginovci
- Halts (Shopsko Rudare, Rancovce, Psaca)
- Substation Building (Kratovo)
- Tunnel Service Buildings:
- Disposal sites / borrow pits
- Cadastral survey – expropriations
- Electrification Design:
- Overhead Contact Line (OCL)
- Traction Power Supply (TPS)
- Signalling & Telecommunications:
- Control, Management and Signalling
- Telecommunications System
- Cable Route of the Open Line
- Technical Specifications for Interlocking and Communication Equipment
- Environmental Mitigation Measures:
- Noise Protection
- Vibration Protection
- Alignment – Substructure – Railway Superstructure
