On June 19-20^th 2009, member companies of BACCRC took part in a conference, organized by the National association – society of permanent way engineers on the subject: “Permanent way – today and tomorrow”.

Found in the conference agenda were the following reports:

• Current condition of the operative program transport – Ministry of transport
• The boomerang of “time that happened not” –eng. Ivan Gogev NRIC
• Modernization of the railway line “Vidin-Sofia” – eng. Tomas Boland, VSRC
• “ROBEL” company presentation – eng. Stephan Mayerl, “ROBEL”

The event was endorsed by NRIC, SC “TSV”, BDZ EAD, constructiong and consulting companies in the field of construction and repair of permanent way.

 The members of BACCRC, who participated in the conference, are:

1. Eurotransproject Ltd.
2. ET TRAPS – Toma Yotsov
3. Transgeo Ltd.
4. Transsystem Ltd.
5. Geosynmat-VB Ltd.

On May 19-20^th, 2009 members of BACCRC were in attendance at the Three-way Conference on the industry relations, project 07-23-162-C “Knowing and able partners” of CITUB (Confederation of independent trade unions in Bulgaria). Operative program “Administrative capacity”.

Macedonia to start Corridor № VIII. 

The Macedonian government gave start to an ambitious program for the construction of the infrastructure along Corridor № VIII. Despite the state of economic crisis, funds are being put aside from the national budget to provide resources for projects from the west partition of Corridor № VIII. It consists of a 66 km long railway alignment from the existing railway station Kichevo to the border with the Republic of Macedonia.

A Bulgarian company was declared the winner of the open tender procedure for the preparation of a survey and a design project for this section, announced by the Macedonian Railways, “Infrastructure”. Eurotransproject Ltd. Sofia came on top in the competition between the seven participants in the tender – 3 local and 4 international companies. The offers of the local companies “Prostor” Kumanovo, “DIK Chakar partners” Skopje and “Prima engineering” Skopje were disqualified for lack of references regarding relevant experience in the design of railway projects. The companies’ reference lists were missing railway projects, the majority or all of the ones mentioned being projects in the sphere road transport infrastructure. Experience with designing for the railway infrastructure was one of the main criteria covered in the technical documentation. From the offers entered by the four international participants – ZPD Zagreb, Croatia; IDOM – International Bilbao, Spain; EGIS-rail France; - the one by EUROTRANSPROJECT Sofia was assessed as being the most advantageous.

On May 8^th, 2009, in Skopje, the official contract for the implementation of the survey and design works on the project “Implementation of study and preliminary design for the railway line Kichevo – border with Republic of Albania” between the State company for railway infrastructure, Skopje, R. of Macedonia and Eurotransproject Ltd, Sofia, Bulgaria was signed in the presence of representatives of the leading Macedonian medias. The contract is for the amount of 839 euro and is being funded by the budget of the Republic of Macedonia. The duration of the contract is 365 days.

The aim of the program is to draw up the technical documentation to a level for development of a general study and the selection of an optimal scenario for the construction of the railway line from the existing railway station Kichevo to the border with the Republic of Albania. The task in front of the study is identify the optimal variant taking in mind the construction and exploitation costs, technical operational characteristics, economic expedience, environmental protection and transport needs. The study must assess the necessary investments for the construction of the railway line and give an estimate regarding the terms for realization of the project. The project must follow and be in compliance with the plan for territorial organization of the region. 

Experts from “Balkan-consulting” DOOEL, Skopje, are subcontracted by Eurotransproject to design the road connections and bridge installations.

Eurotransproject’s team of experts is led by two of the company’s directors – eng. Iliya Iliev, responsible for the administrative tasks and eng. Valentin Mihaylovski – chief designer for the project. The members of the team are excited to conduct this study, with which to fittingly showcase the high standard of work of the Bulgarian engineer-technical guild in the field of railway design.   

 

On the 30th of January 2008 in the city of Sofia was held the General Meeting of the Bulgarian Association of the Consulting Companies in Railway Construction. With a full majority as a new member of the Association was affiliated EUROTRANSPROJECT Ltd. Eng. Maria Mileva was appointed as its representative in the Association's General Meeting. Elections were held for the new two-year-mandate of the Association's Managing Board, Chairman and Deputy Chairmen. As members of the Managing Board were elected Eng. Toma Yotsov, eng. Valentin Mihaylovksi, eng. Sevdalin Valnarov, eng. Ivan Zdravchev and eng. Iliya Iliev. Eng. Iliya Iliev and eng. Toma Yotsov were re-elected respectively as Chairman and Deputy Chairman. Eng. Sevdalin Valnarov was elected as a new Deputy Chairman, replacing eng. Valentin Mihaylovski.

Acceptance / Approval of new companies – With the decision found in written statement № 20/29.11.2007, from the annual general assembly, the company “Stepro” Ltd. was accepted as a full member of the Association.

With the decision found in written statement № 20/29.11.2007, from the annual general assembly, the address for correspondence of BACCRC was changed. The new address for correspondence is Sofia 1202, “Tzar Samuil” str 108, fl. 4

On 14th February 2007 held a meeting between PKAG (Switzerland) and BACCRC. On the side of BACCRC took part Ilia Iliev – chairman, Valeri Kotov – manager of EKIP 2000, Veselina Bachvarova – manager of Geosinmat VB. Representatives of PKAG, after presentation each other and discussion of form for collaboration in the sphere of designer’s and consulting work in the railway transport in Bulgaria and EC declared their desire to become members in BACCRC.

“Rubicon engineering” Ltd in consortium with Tecnica y Proyectos S.A.(TYPSA) (Spain), Louis Berger SAS (France ) and TRADEMCO S.A. (Greece), concluded on 12th April 2006 contract for “Plovdiv-Svilengrad Railway Electrification and Upgrading of Corridors ІV & ІХ, Technical Assistance for the Supervision of the Works for the Whole Line”.

On 12th May 2005 BACCRC held its regular Annual Meeting, on which new applications for membership in the association were discussed. The General Meeting decided to accept as regular membrs of Bulgarian Association of Consulting Companies in Railway Construction the companies "VVD Consult" Ltd and "GUS" Ltd.