Link Alliance Awarded C5 & C7 Contracts for City Rail Link

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Media/ASX and NZX Release
20 October 2020
LINK ALLIANCE AWARDED C5 AND C7 CONTRACTS FOR CITY RAIL LINK
Downer EDI Limited (Downer) announced today that the Link Alliance had been awarded a further two
important contracts for Auckland’s City Rail Link project (CRL).

The contracts are known as C5 and C7 and are variations to the project’s existing C3 tunnels and stations
contracts. The valuation of C5 and C7 is NZ$825 million which is included in the overall NZ$4.4 billion cost of
CRL.

The Chief Executive Officer of Downer, Grant Fenn, said the Link Alliance was helping to deliver the City Rail
Link project under a cost reimbursable alliance contract model.

“Downer has been working on this landmark project since April 2015 and we will continue to work closely
with our joint venture partners and City Rail Link Limited to complete these additional packages and deliver
improved connections across Auckland,” Mr Fenn said.

Link Alliance’s existing C3 contract involves the construction of two new underground railway stations near
Aotea Square and Karangahape road in Auckland central, the redevelopment of the railway station at Mount
Eden and the tunnels connecting them. The two new stations will be designed to carry larger nine-car trains
to better meet the needs of a growing city.

The C5 contract includes: track alignment in multiple stages with associated overhead line and signalling
plant and equipment relocations; rebuilding and extending the existing Mt Eden station platform including
egress footbridges; and building two new public pedestrian footbridges and a new road bridge, heavy
retaining structures and earthworks associated with the grade-separated tracks.

The C7 contract includes the provision of track installation, overhead line, signalling, control systems,
communication systems, control room fit out and building works and auxiliaries as well as installation of rail
systems, testing and commissioning and operational readiness.

The Link Alliance is a consortium comprising Downer New Zealand, Soletanche Bachy International (NZ),
Vinci Construction Grands Projets, AECOM New Zealand, Tonkin + Taylor, and WSP New Zealand working
with City Rail Link Limited.


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