As Novac writes on the 7th of July, 2020, the IGH Institute and HZ Infrastruktura signed a contract on the supervision of the works on the reconstruction of the Zagreb West Station – Savski Marof rail line worth a massive 5.3 million kuna.
This is a project that is largely financed by a loan from the World Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), and relates to the 17.8-kilometre section of the two-track railway line located on the RH1 corridor, which is extremely important for international freight and for suburban transport, it averages in at about 160 trains per day.
The works that will be supervised by the IGH Institute will last for thirty months, and the Railway Reconstruction Project on the Savski Marof – Zagreb West Station section includes both complete reconstructions of certain sections, as well rehabilitations and repairs.
In addition, the plan is to arrange the buildings at the Savski Marof station and at the Brdovec stop, replace existing platforms and landscaped areas with new ones in Kustosija and at the Zapresic-Savska stops and in Podsused station, install canopies at the Kustosija, Podsused, Zapresic-Savska and Brdovec stops, and introduce new security and telecommunications devices.
Upon the completion of the works being supervised by the IGH Institute on this railway section, the trains will run at a speed of 120 km/h. The safety and interoperability of railway traffic and the capacity of the railway will be higher, the costs of railway maintenance will be reduced, and the possibility of transporting more passengers in daily traffic will be improved, which is especially important for the City of Zagreb and for the wider Zagreb County.
For the IGH Institute itself, this is already the fifth significant contract signed recently on the supervision of the construction and reconstruction of extremely important pieces of infrastructure for the Republic of Croatia. Namely, contracts were recently signed with Croatian roads (Hrvatske ceste) on the supervision of the construction and reconstruction of three roads worth 12.3 million kuna and a contract with Autocesta Rijeka-Zagreb on the supervision of the rehabilitation of the Krk bridge worth just over one million kuna in total.
At the moment, the IGH Institute has about a thousand active contracts for the full range of services it provides, primarily in construction, which makes it the leading engineering company in the Republic of Croatia and the immediate region.
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