70억불 테임즈강 오염방지 하수터널 사업 London Water Utility Seeks Investors for $7-Billion Sewer Overflow Fix
Thames
ThamesTideway Tunnel Ltd.
Lee Tunnel, now being built, will channel sewer overflow to London's Beckton sewage
treatment plant
The proposed tunnel, for which a contractor will be chosen in early 2015, seeks to divert
storm overflows that have long channeled pollution into London's Thames River.
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영국 런던의 25km의 하수터널 사업에 대한 세계의 투자자들이 한자리에 모였다.
태풍시 테임즈강을 오염시키는 것을 주목적으로 하는 이 사업은 약 70억불이 소요될 것으로 예상하고 있으며 올 가을에 정부승인이 떨어지면 2016년에나 착수가 가능하다.
시행사인 테임즈워터사는 이미 3개구간에 대한 참여업체 숏리스트(Shortlist)를'확보하고 있으며 내년초에 시공사와 투자사를 최종 결정할 예정이다.
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London Water Utility Seeks Investors for $7-Billion Sewer
Overflow Fix
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London's water utility invited international investors on June 10 to help finance, through a newly created special-purpose company, the estimated $7-billion tunnel program that will prevent polluted storm overflows from tainting the River Thames.
Work on the 25-kilometer-long tunnel is due to start in 2016, subject to final government approvals that are expected this fall.
Privately owned utility Thames Water already has short-listed construction bidders for three construction packages covering the whole project. It aims to announce the successful bidders and the financing deal early next year.
While Thames Water is promoting the project through its subsidiary Thames Tideway Tunnel Ltd. (TTT), the government and the Water Services Regulation Authority—known as OFWAT—have agreed to have the scheme procured by a stand-alone "infrastructure provider" (IP).
The IP will be required to invest around $1.7 billion in equity and raise the balance through loans of various sorts.
However, because the project is perceived as potentially risky, the government has agreed to offer the IP some financial guarantees to provide comfort to lenders. "We've already had a lot of interest from investors," notes Mike Gerrard, TTT's managing director.
The proposed tunnel will run from Acton, in the western part of the city, to Abbey Mills pumping station, which is close to the east London site of the 2012 Olympic Games. From there, it will flow along the Lee Tunnel, now being built, to the Beckton sewage treatment plant.
With diameters ranging from 6.5 meters to 7.2 m, the tunnel will follow the River Thames over 60 m below its bed in places.
To build the tunnels, TTT has divided work into contracts covering the east, west and central sections; the contracts have a combined value of up to $3.9 million. The company last year short-listed a number of international joint ventures to bid for each contract. enr.construction |
