Domestic Order

Metallurgy

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) in consortium with Paul Wurth bagged a Rs.580.74 crore order from Steel Authority of India, to up grade its blast furnace (No 2) at Bokaro Steel Plant, on a turnkey basis. Paul Wurth's scope of work includes basic engineering, supply of proprietary & special equipment along with technical service, while L&T would undertake detail engineering, supply of indigenous mechanical, electrical equipment and instrumentation works, along with complete site services including civil, structural and erection works. L&T's share in the project is valued at Rs.355.02 crore. The project is scheduled for completion within 21 months.

Siemens bagged a Rs.87 crore order from McNally Bharat Engineers, to supply electrical equipment for Rashtriya Ispat Nigam's new sinter plant at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. The sinter plant will be commissioned by August 2009.

Mineral Fuels

Asian Oilfield Services bagged a Rs.71.86 crore order from Oil India Corporation, to acquire 2D seismic data in Mizoram. The order is to be completed within 14 operative months, effective from the date of mobilisation.

Petroleum Products

Hindustan Dorr Oliver bagged a Rs.111.50 crore order from Hindustan Petroleum Corporation, for design, supply, engineering and construction of an integrated effluent treatment plant at its Mumbai refinery. The order is scheduled for completion within 18 months.

Electricity

RTS Power Corporation bagged orders valuing to a total of Rs.52.6 crore, which collectively include supplying 4,735 transformers and 1621.6 km of cables. Amongst these, is a Rs.24 crore order received from Kalpataru Power Transmission to supply part of the transformers.

Lanco Infratech received five letters of acceptance (LoA) from Central Power Distribution Co. of Andhra Pradesh, to supply and erect 33/11 kV substations and 33/11 kV lines in Mahaboobnagar, Kurnool, Nalgonda, Medak and Ananthapur districts of Andhra Pradesh. The order is valued at Rs.67.24 crore.

XL Telecom & Energy bagged orders worth Rs.65.8 crore to export solar panels to EU nations.

Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) bagged a Rs.2,108 crore order from Maithon Power - a JV company of Tata Power and Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC). The order is for supplying and installing steam generators and steam turbine package at BHEL's 2x525 MW Maithon Right Bank Thermal Power project in Jharkhand. BHEL's scope of work includes design, engineering, manufacture, supply, erection and commissioning the steam generators, turbine generators, electrostatic precipitators and associated auxiliaries, besides state-of-the-art controls and instrumentation (C&I) works.

Roadways

Simplex Infrastructures bagged two contracts worth Rs.680.00 crore. One is for the design and construction of the Eastern Freeway stretching from the Museum to Anil Panjarapole Link Road, while the other involves design and construction of a flyover on Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Road, under Package II.

Sadbhav Engineering bagged orders worth Rs.99.01 crore from Chhattisgarh government for the following projects:

Valecha Engineering bagged orders worth Rs.100.00 crore to undertake additional works at the Integrated Road Development Project (IRDP) at Pune, and also at the Udaipur Tunnel Project at Udaipur.

Railways (Urban Transportation)

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) in a 51:49 JV with Shanghai Urban Construction (Group) Corporation has secured a Rs.275 crore order from Delhi Metro Railway Corporation to construct a 2.4 km (1.6 km and 0.8km) underground twin tunnel. The tunnel would begin from the IGI Airport Station to Dwarka Sector-21 in Delhi Metro (Phase II) project's airport metro express line.

Shipping Infrastructure

On 22 November 2007, DP World Cochin (India Gateway Terminal Pvt. Ltd.) awarded Simplex Infrastructure the $150 million (around Rs.592.5 crore) civil construction contract, for Phase I of the International Container Transshipment Terminal (ICTT) at Vallarpadam in Kerala.

Construction work is expected to begin by December 2007. Phase I involves building a 600m quay, an on-dock railhead serviced by rail-mounted gantry cranes, 30 ha of yard, and acquisition of six Super Super Post Panamax cranes designed to handle some of the largest vessels. Phase I of the terminal when complete by March 2009, will have a capacity to handle 1million TEU

Aviation Infrastructure

Mumbai International Airport, an associate company of GVK Power & Infrastructure has signed EPC agreement worth Rs.5,500 crore with L&T for designing, construction and procurement for the expansion and modernisation of Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA).

The Karnataka government has selected the consortium of Maytas Infrastructure, Nagarjuna Construction Co. and Vienna International Airport to develop and operate the Gulbarga and Shimoga airport on a build-operate-transfer (BOT) model for 30 years. Each airport will have one runway. The 550 acres of land required for the Gulbarga airport and 660 acres required for the Shimoga airport have already been acquired by the government. In order to take over the land from the government, the consortium has to pay around Rs.2.2 crore to the state. The consortium is allowed to develop a star hotel, shopping malls and a flying school within the project site.

Pratibha Industries in JV with Pratibha Pipes & Structurals bagged a Rs.41.35 crore order from Delhi International Airport, for construction/ expansion of the domestic arrival terminal at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi. The order is scheduled for completion within five months.

Real Estate

Pratibha Industries bagged a Rs.58.92 crore contract from Vijay Associates (Wadhwa) Constructions, to construct a residential complex including four high-rise towers, each of 49 floors. The project is scheduled for completion within 33 months.

Commercial Complex

IVRCL Infrastructures & Projects bagged orders worth Rs.329.32 crore from the following:

Hospitals

Lanco Infratech received a letter of acceptance (LoA) from Andhra Pradesh Health & Medical Housing & Infrastructure Development Corporation (APHMHIDC), to construct a medical college, a hospital complex, hostels, and ancillary structures for RIMS at Srikakulam in Andhra Pradesh. The contract is valued at Rs.73.18 crore.

Era Constructions India bagged a Rs.61.18 crore order from Hindustan Latex on behalf of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, to set up a super specialty block and trauma care centre, at Government Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College, Salem, Tamil Nadu . The work order is scheduled for completion within 15 months.

Water & Waste Management

Jaihind Projects bagged a Rs.14.85 crore order from Maharashtra Natural Gas, for CNG and city gas distribution in Pune.

Subhash Projects & Marketing bagged two orders:

Pratibha Industries secured a Rs.70.70 crore contract from Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, for a storm water pumping station at Irla, Andheri West, Mumbai.

For this, it has formed a JV with Grundfos Pumps, Chennai and Korea-based Keum Jung Industrial Co. The JV would undertake design and construction of the storm water pumping station, supply, delivery, erection and commissioning of the mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and automation works, along with comprehensive operation and maintenance of pumping plant. The order is to be executed within 12 months.

Miscellaneous

Pratibha Industries bagged a Rs.49.49 crore contract from Jammu & Kashmir Economic Reconstruction Agency, to replace the existing rising mains and lay new rising mains and gravity mains within the Jammu city. The project is to be completed within 18 months.

Supreme Infrastructure India bagged a Rs.113.23 crore order from Thane Municipal Corporation to construct and strengthen Nalla No 1 (Part), 3W, 7,1,11, 12 and sub-nallas under the integrated nalla development project.

Kone has received a major order from Indiabulls Properties, to design, supply and install 40 elevators at the Jupiter Mills high-end commercial development area in South Mumbai. Ten of the installed elevators will be customised glass elevators. The installation of the equipment is expected to begin by December 2007 and is scheduled for completion by June 2008. Architect Hafeez Contractor, has designed two towers for the project.

Overseas Order

Chemicals (incl rubber, fertilisers)

Sembawang Engineers & Constructors Pte, a wholly owned subsidiary of Punj Lloyd, bagged a Rs.1,770 crore turnkey contract from Jurong Aromatics Corporation, for engineering, procurement and construction work at the new mega aromatics plant on Jurong Island, Singapore. Sembawang E&C will undertake engineering, procurement and construction of all ancillary facilities, including the intermediary and finished product tenkage, receiving and exporting jetties, power and steam co-generation plant, waste water treatment unit and other utilities & infrastructure, which are necessary to support the main conversion units.

Electricity

Suzlon Energy Australia Pty, Australia, the step-down wholly owned subsidiary of Suzlon Energy bagged orders from Sydney's Renewable Power Ventures (RPV), to deliver 63 units of Suzlon S88-2.1 MW wind turbines, translating into a total capacity of 132 MW. The wind farm project, for which the turbines would be supplied, is scheduled for completion in the first half of 2009.

KEC International (KEC) bagged two orders, one each in Abu Dhabi and Algeria, through an international competitive bidding process. The orders were received from the following: