Elecnor preselected for a railway tender in Santa Clara, California
Preselected by the Valley Transportation Authority, the company is eligible to work on double tracking the Mountain View single track segment
23 July 2014.- Elecnor has been selected by the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) in Santa Clara (California) as contractor on double tracking the Mountain View single track segment.
The project forms part of the VTA’s action plan to improve the rail service on the southern section of the San Francisco peninsula over the next 2 years, with an initial total valuation of 60 million dollars on a number of tenders. Elecnor, which hopes to work on all the tenders, is now finalising a bid of around 25 million dollars for the first project. The construction focuses on widening some 500 metres of tram track to be used as a siding facility, enabling the authority to operate express rail services with fewer halts.
The news from the VTA has thrust Elecnor into the sector to take up other opportunities such as the Caltrain electrification project or high-speed rail projects, and also boosts its international presence in the infrastructure/railway sector, where it has 20 years' experience on "turnkey" projects featuring electrification, signalling, interlocking, communication and control systems projects for railways, underground systems, trams and trolleybuses.
The company also has experience on Spain's high-speed rail network, helping to develop catenaries for speeds up to 350 km/h. Of Spain's 2,700 kilometres of high-speed track, Elecnor was involved in laying approximately 2,250 kilometres of it. This experience led the company to join the Spanish consortium bidding on Brazil's 511 kilometre high-speed line between Rio and São Paulo.
Among other projects, Elecnor is now working on a 12.6 kilometre tram contract in Algeria, awarded by the country's Ministry of Transport in June last year.
The Elecnor Group focuses on overseas markets as a growth driver for the years ahead, and is investing heavily in infrastructure, especially in the US through subsidiaries such as its major west-coast operators Elecnor Inc. and Elecnor Belco, and Elecnor Hawkeye LLC, which operates in the country's north-eastern and mid-Atlantic states.