The macro reform project of the Chamartín station is underway
The work is estimated at around 800 million euros and will be undertaken in phases
Adif has launched the macroproject of reform and transformation of the Madrid Chamartín train station, a work estimated at about 800 million euros, which will be undertaken in phases and, in addition, is part of the so-called 'Operation Chamartín'.
The public railway company has tendered the first of the contracts for this work, the drafting of the basic and construction projects. The budget of these first works, of 24.48 million euros, gives an estimate of the volume and dimension that will be the bulk of the project with which Chamartín is intended to become “the best train station in Europe”.
“It will be the transport hub of the new 'city' that will be formed in the North of Madrid,” as Adif president Isabel Pardo de Vera recently stressed, referring to the planned urban operation in this area of the capital, currently called Madrid Nuevo Norte.
Under this first contract, which gives the 'kick-off' to the reform of the station, the public company will select the company or group of companies that will write the entire project, which includes coverage with a slab of the beam of tracks that leave from the enclosure towards the North of the city. The winner will also be responsible for drafting the construction projects of the different phases in which the construction of the new site is staggered.
Specifically, the drafting of the projects that are now going to the competition must determine “in a harmonious way” from the functional aspects of the station and its links with the rest of the transport modes with which it will connect, to the design of the building, in addition to the aforementioned placement of the slab. Companies interested in bidding on this contract have until April 24 to submit their offers to Adif, according to the tender notice published by the Official State Gazette (BOE).