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The 10+1 big infrastructure projects of 1.6 bln euros coming up in the next 6 months

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The 10+1 big infrastructure projects of 1.6 bln euros coming up in the next 6 months

Ten new major projects are being prepared for tender next semester by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport and the Public Utilities Companies it supervises. This is a new package of projects worth almost 1.6 billion euros which is added to the already swollen portfolio of large projects.

Among the projects stand out the extension of Metro line 2 in Ilion, the anti-flood project of Nea Makri and the northern end of the Ionia Odos, Ioannina-Kakavia. The projects are estimated to begin to be tendered gradually from October until the beginning of Spring 2023. But what exactly are these projects and what are their features? Let’s see:

Anti-flood project of Nea Makri

It is about the arrangement of the Mega Stream in Nea Makri in a length of 17.5 kilometers. The cost of the project is estimated at 67 million euros and the tender is expected in the first quarter of 2023. It is financed by the EIB (from the well-known program for flood protection projects in 2020) and the NSRF 2014-2020. The construction duration is estimated at 30 months.

Plati Potamos Dam

It is a dam that will strengthen the water supply network in Rethymnon. It also includes the construction of a 25km distribution network up to Messara and irrigation networks in Rethymnon that will cover 45,000 acres. The cost is estimated at 130 million euros and the tender is expected at the end of 2022-beginning of 2023. The duration of the constructions has been estimated at 36 months and the financing is being considered.

Ionia Odos: Ioannina-Kakavia section

This is the northern terminus of the highway that today starts from Antirrio and ends in Ioannina. With its construction, access to and from Albania will be improved, while it is also part of the Adriatiki Odos. The cost of the project is estimated at 290 million euros and the tender is expected at the end of 2022-beginning of 2023. The duration of the projects was set at 48 months and the funding will come from the NSRF 2021-2027.

Extension of line 2 of the Athens Metro to Ilion

This is the northern extension of line 2 from the ANTHOUPOLI terminal in Ilion. It includes 4km and 3 new stations: PALATIANI, ILION, AGIOS NIKOLAOS. The cost of the project is estimated at 350 million euros and expressions of interest are expected towards the end of 2022. The duration of the projects was set at 48 months and the funding will come from the NSRF 2021-2027. Here the contracting authority is ATTIKO METRO.

Water supply of Corfu – Phase B and C

It is a 30-year PPP project. It includes the construction and operation of a water supply system of 15,000 cubic meters of water per day. The cost is estimated at 146 million euros. Approval is awaited from the Inter-Ministerial Committee to start the tender ideally by the end of the year. Of the 30 years, the construction will be four years.

West Attica Suburban

A very important transport project. It concerns the reuse of the inactive train line with a length of 36 km. It will serve the urban areas of Aspropyrgo, Elefsina, Loutropyrgo, as well as the areas of Neraki, Nea Peramos and Megara. It will also help in the freight transport service for Elpe. facilities in Aspropyrgos and Elefsina Stations: Aspropyrgos Elpe., Aspropyrgos, Vamvakia, Elefsina, Elefsina Elpe., Loutropyrgos, Nea Peramos. It includes electric propulsion and signaling. The cost reaches 107 million euros and the auction is expected in October. The duration of the projects was set at 33 months and the financing will be covered by the Recovery Fund. The contracting authority for this project is the OSE.

Tsiknia Dam, Lesvos

Another dam which will have a volume of 12.5 million cubic meters. With its construction and operation, many areas of Lesvos will “quench” their thirst, such as Mytilini, Kalloni, Evergetoula, etc. The cost amounts to 104 million euros and the tender is expected by the end of the year. Construction is set to take 36 months and financing will be covered by the Recovery Fund.

Arta-Preveza-Lefkada water supply network

This project solves the problem with the existing old network. The network will be 87 km long to Lefkada and includes, among other things, the construction of 3 tanks with a total capacity of 5,800 cubic meters. The cost amounts to 140 million euros and the tender is expected by the end of the year. The duration of the constructions was set at 35 months and the financing will be covered by the Recovery Fund.

Anti-flood shielding of Amvrakia-Amfilochia-Valtos

Here we find a project for flood protection in the 3 regions of Etoloakarnania. It includes projects on 35,000 acres, Construction of irrigation and drainage networks with a pipeline and ditch every 200m in an area of ​​700 acres, upgrading of the ditch upstream of the New National Road Construction of individual ditches, 13 individual irrigation networks 12,800 sq.m. gross area and 11,500 square meters of net surface area and construction of 4 resettling tanks and 2 pumping stations. The cost amounts to 64.5 million euros and the tender is expected until the end of 2022. The duration of the constructions is 36 months and the financing will be covered by the Recovery Fund.

Bramiano anti flood shield

It includes completion works of the Bramiano reservoir, the anti-flood works of Gra Lygia and the Myrtos Dam in Lasithi, Crete. The cost amounts to 53.5 million euros and the tender is expected by the end of the year. The duration of the projects was set at 36 months and the financing will be covered by the Recovery Fund.

+1 project: Smart bridges

A smart project that includes the provision of smart preventive maintenance services to the OSE SA and ERGOSE SA railway bridges throughout the country. The cost reaches 130 million euros and its auction is expected in October. The duration of the projects was set at 36 months and the financing will be covered by the Recovery Fund.

Read more in here  (Source | Ypodomes.com | Official WTC2023 Media Partner)

Tarcisio Celestino

Tarcisio Celestino was previously ITA President (2016-19) and President of the Brazilian Tunnelling Committee. He was the Animateur of the ITA Working Group 12 on Sprayed Concrete Use (2005-10). He earned his doctorate degree in Civil Engineering (Rock Mechanics) from the University of California, Berkeley (1981).

He is currently Professor at the University of Sao Paulo and employed by Themag Engenharia Ltda., Sao Paulo (Brazil), where he leads the Geotechnical Engineering, Engineering Geology &Transportation Engineering Design Groups. He is also responsible for the geotechnical designs of several hydroelectric power plants, subways, highways etc., including major underground works (since 1990). He has also acted as consultant.

Professor Celestino continues to contribute his knowledge for the graduate courses & research areas on Rock Mechanics & Underground Works, at the São Carlos Engineering School, University of São Paulo and for the ITACET Foundation.

2. Excursion of history and adventure in Lavreotiki
Sunday 14 May, 2023

Our destination is the exploitation galleys of one of the largest underground mines of Attica. The chambers of metal extraction, rich in recognisable minerals, combine the mystery of ancient drifts with the beauty of caves. We will wander underground for up to 3 hours and explore the maize of drifts, the chambers supported by natural as well as carved-out pillars and the stalactites decoration reminiscent of natural caves. Each of the routes we follow hides surprises waiting to be discovered! 

After we will visit the great “Chaos” sinkhole, a heart-shaped sinkhole formation 150m in diameter and 55m deep. This chiasm may have been formed by the collapse of a cave roof as many of the area’s mining tunnels end there.

Scientific theme: Underground mining activity in Lavrio

Duration: 6 hours inclusive

Detailed program

9.30-10.30 Athens-Lavrio

10.30-13.30 Underground mines

14.00-14.30 Stop at dolin “Chaos” and return to Athens

14.30 – 15.30 Lavrio-Athens

Cost per person: 40,00 €

*limited participation on a first come first served basis. In case participants are less than 20, the respective event will be cancelled and a refund wil be given.

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1. We go down Athens underground. (Athens centre, moving around on foot)
Saturday 13 May, 2023

How many surprises can the Athens underground have in store for its visitors? The stroll will start from underground shelters and detention areas of the German Kommandatur, remnants of the 2nd World War in Athens. Then, we will take the steps that start off under a timeworn trap door on the side of a road or hidden away in a sidewalk flower–bed, that will lead us in a different, forgotten underground area of the city! For hundreds of years, underground pathways have been used for various and mysterious purposes. Some say that all underground pathways are interconnected although there is no proof of this. Nevertheless, the allure of an unknown world is always there, beneath the ground we walk on. We lift up the antiquated hatch and descend the stone steps.  In the catacomb, we come across tunnels of ancient aqueducts, roman baths and byzantine crypts. The Athens river is also found hidden below the ground, running in old galleys under the most central streets of Athens – we can hear the cars passing over our heads! 

We invite you to discover together the hidden secrets of our city!

Scientific theme: underground constructions of the 19th and 20th century.

Duration: Maximum of 4 hours.

Detailed program:

11.00 Meeting outside Metro Station Panepistimio

11.30 Memorial Site (Korai Street). Two-level underground shelter below the Mansion of Ethniki Insurance Company.

13.00 Catacombs of the Russian Church (Filellinon Street). Inside the catacombs a tunnel and a shaft from ancient Peisistratus aqueduct, ruins from roman baths and crypts of the Byzantine order of Likodimos -11th century.

14.00 Ilissos River (area of Panathenaic Stadium). The buried riverbed of Athens river Ilissos.

Cost per person : 35,00 €

*limited participation on a first come first served basis. In case participants are less than 20, the respective event will be cancelled and a refund wil be given.

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Professor Kyriazis Pitilakis

Professor Kyriazis Pitilakis has more than forty years of intensive academic, research and professional experience in civil, earthquake and geotechnical engineering. Vice-President of the European Association of Earthquake Engineering (EAEE), ex- Chairman of the Technical Committee “Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering andAssociated Problems” (TC203) of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), and past President of the Greek Society of Earthquake Engineering. He is presently Professor Emeritus in Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece and since 2019 visiting Professor in Tongji University, International Laboratory of earthquake Engineering (ILEE), Shanghai, China.

Coordinator and scientific responsible of numerous European research projects, namely EUROSEISTEST and SYNER-G, he has a long experience in European research activities in earthquake engineering, geotechnical engineering, vulnerability and risk assessment of civil engineering structures, infrastructures and lifelines. According to the recent Stanford classification he is among the top 10 leading researchers in Civil Engineering in Greece, and among the top 10 leading international researchers in specific topics like Soil Dynamics, Engineering Seismology and Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering.

Chairman of several international conferences including the 16th European Conference of Earthquake Engineering, Thessaloniki 2018 and invited keynote lecturer in many International Conferences. Author of more than 650 scientific papers (h-factor 57) published in peer review scientific journals, and conference proceedings, author and co-author in several books, editor of four books published in Springer Editions, all in relevant subjects of earthquake engineering, seismic risk and geotechnical earthquake engineering. Professor Kyriazis Pitilakis is founder and coordinator of EUROSEISTEST, a large scale experimental facility in earthquake engineering, soil dynamics and engineering seismology that is unique in Europe and worldwide. He supervised more that 30 PhD thesis and numerous of his students hold academic positions in Greece and worldwide.

Professor Kyriazis Pitilakis is strongly involved in the ongoing revision of EC8 (Part 1-Seismic Actions and Part 5-Seismic design of foundations, retaining structures, soilstructure interaction, liquefaction, slope stability and underground structures), while he has been international expert for the revision of other seismic codes worldwide.

He is member of the editorial advisory board in Springer editions (Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering), member of the editorial board and reviewer of numerous scientific journals and member of many international societies in earthquake and geotechnical engineering.

Honors: Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques, French Republic.
Thessaloniki 06.06.2022

Professor Marc Panet

The 12th Muir Wood lecture will be delivered by Professor Marc Panet during the WTC2023 in Athens. His nomination being a Muir Wood lecturer was proposed by the French Tunnelling & Underground Space Association (AFTES) as per ITA’s Statues and By-laws.

Marc Panet graduated in Civil Engineering at the École des Mines de Paris and obtained a Master degree at the University of California at Berkeley. He started his career in 1965 at the Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées, in Paris, where he was a Research Engineer, Head of the Geotechnical Department and Technical Director. In 1982 he joined the SHP Group, in Paris, as Scientific Director. From 1984 to 1996 he was the President and CEO of SIMECSOL; and from 1996 to 2000 President and CEO of FC International SA. Since then he has been working as a consultant. He taught at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, at the École des Mines and at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, in Paris.

Marc has been in charge of numerous studies in geotechnical engineering for underground works, highways, bridges, and natural hazards. Among the main projects are: the Mont Blanc Tunnel (11.6km), the Frejus Road Tunnel (12.9 km), the Large Electron–Positron Collider (CERN in Geneva), the Channel Tunnel (from 1967 to the end of the construction), the Millau Bridge, the Loetschberg Base Tunnel (43 km), subways in Paris, Rennes, Caracas, Athens and Algiers, the slides of the city of Constantine (Algeria), the project of the suspended bridge on the Straits of Messina (Italy) and the project of the cable-stayed bridge on the Golden Horn (Turkey). He is presently involved in a large number of geotechnical projects.

He is the author of a large number of publications in professional journals and international conferences and of the well-known book “Calculation of tunnels using the convergence-confinement method”.

Marc Panet is a Honorary Member of the French Academy of Technology, Knight of the National Order of Merit and Knight of the Order of Academic Palms.