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Partners In Rail: Meinhardt & Ineco Announce Collaborative Venture

Announcement posted by Meinhardt Australia 20 Feb 2013

Global engineering consultancies partner to offer specialised rail infrastructure advice, project management and design solutions

Global engineering and professional technical services consultant, Meinhardt has joined forces with Ineco, one of the world’s leading transport engineering and consultancy firms to provide specialized rail infrastructure advice, project management and engineering solutions to help meet the very specific, complex challenges of the rail sector.

 

The collaborative partnership brings together complementary skills, including strategic planning, rail systems design, signaling, electrification, incident management, environmental monitoring and maintenance solutions.

 

The team’s experience and knowledge has been gained from a variety of projects around the world, including delivery across Europe’s conventional and high speed rail (HSR) networks, work on the Middle East’s first HSR project, station designs across Asia, as well as numerous light rail and underground metro schemes.

“The partnership has been formed specifically to target major rail transport projects, initially in
Australia with the view of further expansions to other parts of the globe. The aim of this partnership is to meet the continuing international trend towards mega-projects, which require more skillsets, involve multiple stakeholders and are often procured and delivered very differently,” said Janos Baranyai, National Director – Major and Strategic Projects at Meinhardt. “The Meinhardt-Ineco partnership, with its global network of offices, will deliver the very latest international thinking in rail to clients wherever they are.”

“With a multi-million dollar research and development budget, the partnership is committed to delivering both cutting edge and future-proof solutions,” added Alberto Fernandez, Ineco’s Asia Pacific Manager. “We have patented innovations to improve operations, systems monitoring and control, health and safety, incident management and environmental monitoring to help keep clients one step ahead. These are very exciting times.”

 

The Meinhardt-Ineco partnership is already exploring opportunities in Australia.

 

To find out more visit: www.partnersinrail.com

 

Notes to Editors:

Meinhardt is one of the world's few multidisciplinary and truly integrated engineering, infrastructure and project management consulting firms. Since 1955, we have led the way in delivering innovative and highly buildable designs that always consider our clients' commercial objectives and global environmental concerns. We employ over 3,500 staff in more than 30 offices worldwide and have worked on some of the largest and most complex building and infrastructure projects. Clients look to us for end-to-end project consultancy ranging from feasibility study, master planning, detailed design, project management to delivery, which includes among other capabilities, construction supervision, and testing and commissioning.

 

Annually the Group consults on projects worth an estimated US$15 billion and ranks among the largest independent engineering consulting firms globally by revenue. Some of our key projects include Xintiandi (China); TAMAR Development (Hong Kong); Marina Bay Financial Centre (Singapore); MGM Grand Ho Tram Integrated Resort (Vietnam); The Dubai Mall (Dubai, UAE); Muscat International Airport (Oman); KL Sentral Station (Malaysia); Eureka Tower (Australia); and the Greater Bangalore Water Supply Distribution Network (India).

 

In Australia, Meinhardt employs over 250 people with offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Gold Coast and Perth and currently turns over A$40m+ every year.

www.meinhardtgroup.com

INECO
, Ingeniería y Economía del Transporte, S.A., is a Spanish company that was established in 1968 in response to the need to provide independent technological support to the development of investment programmes in the field of transport. It specialises in providing all types of studies and projects related to the transport and telecommunications sector.

Railways are a vital means of transport in a sustainable, strong and competent infrastructure system. In Spain they have one of the best and most comprehensive networks of high-speed and conventional trains. Ineco participated in this development, carrying out projects on all the lines of the high-speed network. This experience has allowed us to work on the five continents and become one of the leading companies abroad. Projects such as the high-speed line in Saudi Arabia, between Mecca and Medina, and the first high-speed line in the Middle East joining Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey are proof of this recognition.

From planning, structuring, funding, regulation and institutional support, to design, management, supervision, on-site technical assistance and commissioning and maintenance, Ineco's service offering encompasses the entire project process.

www.ineco.es