F4E signs the ITER Architect Engineer contract, one of the biggest engineering contracts ever in Europe

Worth approximately 150 million Euros, the Architect Engineer contract for ITER Buildings and Civil Infrastructures was awarded to the Engage consortium.

It represents a total of around 1,700,000 hours of work, spread over the 8 years foreseen for the design and the construction of ITER buildings bringing together 230 engineers and designers.

The Health and Safety Protection Coordination and Legal Inspection Services contract was also signed, worth approximately 9 million Euros and was awarded to Apave.

The Architect Engineer will assist F4E during the entire construction process, from the elaboration of the detailed design to the final acceptance of the works, including the ITER buildings, as well as the site infrastructures and the distribution of the power supplies. At the peak of the design activity, more than 230 engineers and designers will be working under this contract.

While most of these teams will be working in F4E’s premises in Cadarache, some specific design tasks will be performed in one of the ENGAGE Consortium’s companies’ offices in Spain (Empresarios Agrupados), United Kingdom (Atkins) or France (Assystem and Iosis).

In addition to signing the Architect Engineer contract today, F4E also signed the Health and Safety Protection Coordination and Legal Inspection Services contract with Apave.

The contract will review the design during conception phase, establish the health and safety plan and follow up the work during the construction phase. The ITER project will comply with French legal requirements regarding the solidity of Nuclear and Non Nuclear buildings.

Press release: EN, FR (pdf)
MEMO: EN (pdf)

F.Briscoe, F4E Director, explains the importance of the two contracts

F.Briscoe, F4E Director, awards contract to S.Aubarbier, Engage Consortium

F.Briscoe, F4E Director, awards contract to A.Feraud, Apave