ITALY: Roma municipality has awarded the Metro C Scpa consortium a €776m contract covering the design and construction of Section T1 of Roma Metro Line C. This will link Clodio/Mazzini and Farnesina in the north of the capital with one intermediate station at Auditorium.
Led by Webuild, with Vianini Lavori, Astaldi and Hitachi Rail, the consortium is currently completing Piazza Venezia station in the city centre. That forms the final part of Section T3, along with the 3 km route from San Giovanni to Porta Metroni and Colosseo/Fori Imperiali which was opened for traffic in December.
The Metro C consortium is also working on Section T2 of the fully automated line, which will run from Piazza Venezia to Clodio/Mazzini via a tunnel under the River Tiber and an interchange with Line A at Ottaviano. That section is currently in the executive design phase, and Webuild confirmed that the award of the T1 contract meant that the two northern sections could be built ‘in an integrated manner’. It said this would ‘facilitate the continuation of mechanised excavation’ between the two sections, ‘avoiding a fragmentation of the works’. The company valued its share of the T1 contract at €268m.
‘The ability to combine advanced engineering with measures to preserve millennia-old artifacts is the hallmark of the Metro C consortium’s work in Roma’, the company explained when the contract was announced on January 14. It pointed out that the consortium had been ‘able to overcome major engineering challenges to safeguarding the city’s heritage’, noting that the various construction sites offered ‘an opportunity for cultural enhancement’, with more than 625 000 m³ of archaeological excavations being managed along the first sections of Line C between Monte Compatri/Pantano and Clodio/Mazzini.
