Keller Group, the international ground engineering specialist, has announced that it has been awarded two major contracts relating to the main tunnels for Crossrail, the new east-west railway link to be built under Central London.

Keller UK has been awarded the compensation grouting works at London Underground's Tottenham Court Road and Bond Street stations. The contract covers the installation of over 50 kilometres of specialist pipe, through which grout will be pumped whilst the tunneling works are in progress, to mitigate any ground movement and protect the existing infrastructure.

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Keller has also been awarded a contract for structural monitoring, geotechnical instrumentation and surveying works, employing the Getec monitoring system which was originally developed by Keller in Germany and recently introduced into the UK.

The two contracts will be undertaken in joint venture and have a combined value to Keller of around £30 million. Work on both will begin shortly and will run through to 2014.

These follow the award of a £37 million contract in June for grouting works for the Victoria Underground Station upgrade, which will start in late 2011 and will be undertaken with support from other Group businesses in Europe.

(CD/GK)