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The FAST Consortium, led
by FCC, recognised as the
Global Tunnelling Team of
the Year for its work on
the Riyadh Metro
FCC Construcción has completed the boring of the
Bolaños tunnels (Verín-Ourense). The works entail the
execution of two parallel single-track tunnels, each 6.7
kilometres long, on the Madrid-Galicia High-Speed Line.
FCC Construcción completes boring of the Bolaños
tunnel on
the Madrid-Galicia high-speed line
Briefs
Construction
The FAST Consortium, led by FCC, has
been recognised as the Best Global Tunne-
lling Team of the Year at the 2016 New Civil
Engineer Tunnelling Awards. Following the
successful completion of the excavation
work on the Yellow, Green and Purple lines
of the Riyadh Metro, the Consortium also
came in as runners-up in the Community
Engagement and Global Best Project of the
Year (above $500m) categories.
The winners were announced at an event
held at the Grosvenor House Hotel on Park
Lane in London on Thursday, 8 December.
The panel of judges highlighted the size
and diversity of the FAST excavation team,
made up of 9,500 people from 42 countries
who speak 22 different languages.
With an average excavation performance of 19.40 linear metres
per day in the first tunnel, the work took 11.5 months to comple-
te. The boring of the second tunnel saw an average excavation
performance of 24.32 linear metres per day, resulting in a com-
pletion term of 9.5 months. Therefore, there was a two month
reduction with regards to the time invested in the first tunnel.
