Link Alliance consortium awarded two contracts for Auckland City Rail Link

The Link Alliance has been awarded contracts C5 and C7 worth NZ$825 million on the Auckland City Rail Link projects.

These contracts are variations of the project’s existing C3 tunnels and stations contracts which the alliance is also constructing.

Downer, one of the companies in the alliance announced the contract award. The rest of the alliance comprises, Soletanche Bachy International (NZ), Vinci Construction Grands Projects, AECOM New Zealand, Tonkin + Taylor and WSP New Zealand – working with City Rail Link Limited.

Downer’s Chief Executive Officer, Grant Fenn said the Link Alliance was helping to deliver the City Rail Link project under a cost reimbursable alliance contract model.

“Downer has been working on this landmark project since April 2015 and we will continue to work closely with our joint venture partners and City Rail Link Limited to complete these additional packages and deliver improved connections across Auckland,” Fenn said.

The existing C3 contract involves the construction of two underground railway stations, the redevelopment of an existing station and the tunnels connecting them.

Contract C5 will include track alignment in multiple stages with associated overhead line and signalling plant and equipment relocations, extending the platform at the existing station including egress footbridges and building two new public pedestrian footbridges and a new road bridge, heavy retaining structures and earthworks associated with the grade-separated tracks.

C7 Includes the provision of track installation, overhead line, signalling, control systems, communication systems, control room fit out and building works and auxiliaries as well as installation of rail systems, testing and commissioning and operational readiness.

Construction of the City Rail Link is due for completion in late 2024.