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  • 1 March 2008

ITER multimodal platform: earthworks construction

The Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA de Cadarache - Atomic Energy Commission), acting on behalf of the ITER France agency, has awarded Egis Route the construction management of the earthworks contract for the ITER platform.

The works, on a site covering 40 ha, includes:

  • the earthworks for the platform (2 million cubic metres of excavation, 1 million cubic metres of fill)
  • the drainage works for the platform
  • preparatory works for the perimeter fence around the area
  • the construction works for the access track to the platform

Completion time for the works: 10 months

Egis Structures & Environnement (Egis Géotechnique) will be working as subcontractor for laboratory external control, and OPSIA for the topographical external control.

© Egis Route / Sébastien Faisnel