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October's top ten engineering contract wins

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Each month The Engineer picks 10 of the most notable contract news stories from our Business Briefs archive. This month’s selection includes news from the UK’s transport and energy sectors, and contract wins in the international defence and aerospace industries.

Earlier in the month, power and automation technology group ABB won a competitive contract from EDF Energy Infrastructure Services to supply medium-voltage (MV) switchgear panels for a project to upgrade the 11kV power network serving London Underground’s SSR (Sub-Surface Railway) lines.

EDF Energy Infrastructure Services will install the ABB MV switchgear in substations at 13 locations – from Acton Town to Upminster – where it will replace existing equipment that has now reached the end of its service life.

Delivery of the 147 panels will commence in December 2010, with delivery of the final panels scheduled for mid-2012.

In the same sector, Crossrail, the project to build major new railway connections under central London, awarded the Paddington Integrated Project (PIP) preparatory works contract to infrastructure support company Carillion Construction.

The area around Paddington and the Grade-1 listed station will be transformed over the coming years with a new Crossrail station built under Eastbourne Terrace and Departures Road.

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