The Tender Committee of the Kyiv Metro has awarded Kryukiv Carriage Works (KVSZ, Poltava region) a victory in the tender to supply Kyiv with 10 units of five-car subway trains financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) with a bid of almost EUR79.196 million (including VAT), the KVSZ press service reported on Friday.
“Today the much desired for KVSZ and partner enterprises message about the award of victory in the tender for the supply of metro trains has appeared. The proposal of domestic carriage builders was accepted by the tender committee and agreed with the EBRD,” the report says.
The press-service of KVSZ emphasizes that the offer of the Ukrainian plant was 37% lower than that of the second participant – Czech Skoda.
KVSZ offered a subway train with asynchronous traction drive with three motor and two trailing non-motor cars, with bogies of domestic production with central pneumatic suspension and disk brakes.
Train length – 97 m, design speed – 90 km/h, designated service life – 50 years, its total capacity (including standing passengers) – 1650 people.
There are two inclusive seats for wheel chair passengers. Movement of passengers from car to car is free – through hermetic passages (train “pipe”), which KVSZ has been using for more than 10 years in the manufacture of passenger rail rolling stock.
As reported, the tender for the delivery of 50 subway cars (including spare parts and consumables, equipment and tools for maintenance, repair and related services) to Kiev for EBRD funds was announced back in December 2020, the proposals of the participants of the second stage were considered in March this year.
KVSZ recalls that it is ready to offer similar metro cars for Kharkiv Metro, which on May 5, 2023 announced a tender for the purchase of five-section metro trains (with free passage between cars) for EUR45 mln with the funds of the European Investment Bank (EIB), but due to discriminatory, in its assessment, requirements will not be able to participate in it.
The tender committee, in particular, demanded confirmation of experience in supplying at least 30 subway cars over the last five years, while KVBZ “put on the rails” 170 cars, but not over the last five years.
In addition, the conditions prescribe requirements only for European standards.
As reported, Kharkiv has again postponed the deadline for consideration of participants’ proposals in this tender – to October 10, 2023.
KVSZ, Ukraine’s largest railcar building enterprise, produces passenger and freight cars, regional diesel trains, high-speed interregional locomotive traction trains, spare parts and bogies for freight cars.
The company’s net income in 2022 increased by 38.4% to UAH 3 bln 545 mln, net profit amounted to UAH 37.25 mln against a loss of UAH 230 mln a year earlier.
On September 1, about 25,000 first-graders will start school in the Ukrainian capital, which is close to the pre-war figures, according to the website of the Kyiv City State Administration.
“It is thanks to our work and efforts that the educational process in Kyiv has not stopped. And this is despite the fact that during the large-scale war the Russian aggressor damaged 104 educational institutions in the capital. 83 of them have already been restored, while the rest are undergoing repairs. This year, about 25 thousand first-graders will go to Kyiv schools, which is close to the pre-war figures. I believe this is a manifestation of trust in us. And the desire of parents for their children to live and study in Ukraine, in Kyiv,” said Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko at an educational conference in August.
According to him, all 420 schools in the capital will start their work, the vast majority of them in a full-time format.
The mayor thanked the teachers for their work. According to Klitschko, 762 graduates received the maximum 200 points in the national multi-subject test.
In Kyiv, 42 thousand square meters of office space is expected to be commissioned by the end of the year, according to CBRE Ukraine’s office real estate market research.
According to the study, in the first half of 2023, only one small office building Unit.City B4 (13.2 thousand square meters) was commissioned. The total volume of competitive office space remained almost unchanged at 2.22 million sq m.
It is expected that in the second half of 2023, about 42 thousand sq m will be commissioned in four business centers. At the same time, BC Twelve (14 thousand sq m) and BC Heritage (16.8 thousand sq m) account for 73% of the new supply. CBRE Ukraine does not rule out delays in construction and commissioning.
The study states that the full-scale war has reduced development activity in the office segment; the amount of office space under construction has decreased. In particular, several office projects originally scheduled for completion in 2023 have been suspended until at least 2024. At the same time, no new development projects were recorded in 2022, and it is unlikely that they will appear before the end of 2023. Therefore, it is predicted that over the next two to three years, the volume of office real estate can only grow if suspended development projects are restarted.
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CBRE’s Ukrainian office was opened in January 2008 and is part of the company’s affiliate network.
More than 100,000 trees have been digitized in Kyiv, according to Oleksandr Voznyi, head of the Department of Environmental Protection and Climate Change Adaptation at the Kyiv City State Administration.
“Our online map of trees is being actively updated and as of today contains more than 107 thousand plantations. By creating this resource, we aimed to conduct a clear inventory and understand how many trees there are in the capital, what condition they are in, and to provide the community with effective control tools,” he wrote on Facebook.
Voznyi noted that a significant amount of work has been done by the utility companies of Desnianskyi, Holosiivskyi and Pecherskyi districts, which have digitized all street trees and the vast majority of parks and are now working in parks.
“Seven parks in Desnianskyi and one in Holosiivskyi districts of the capital have already been added to the online map. We have also started digitizing the Partisan Glory Park in Darnytsia district and the Eternal Glory Park in Pechersk district of Kyiv,” he said.
The resource will contain a photo of each “digitized” tree, information about its location (with reference to the exact coordinates), species, trunk diameter, height and condition.
The online map is still being updated. Since it is created using high-precision maps, it will be made public as soon as it is possible from the point of view of security issues.
In Ukraine, the heat will drop slightly in the next few days – on Tuesday, August 22, the temperature will be 15-20° at night, 24-29° during the day, 27-32° in Zakarpattia, central and eastern regions; in the south of the country, 18-23° at night, 30-35° during the day, according to the Ukrainian Weather Center.
Forecasters predict that August 22 will be without precipitation, only in the Carpathians, in the Carpathian region and in the northeast of the country there will be short-term rains in some places during the day. The wind will be northwest, 5-10 m/s.
No precipitation is expected in Kyiv. Northwest wind, 5-10 m/s. The temperature at night will be 18-20°, during the day 27-29°.
According to the data of the Borys Sreznevsky Central Geophysical Observatory. On August 22, the highest daytime temperature was 36.6° in 2000, and the lowest nighttime temperature was 4.6° in 1914.
On Wednesday, August 23, it will be without precipitation, only in the Carpathian region there will be short-term rains and thunderstorms. West, northwest wind, 5-10 m / s.
Temperature at night will be 12-17°, during the day 24-29°, in Transcarpathia and Prykarpattia up to 31°; in the southern part of the country at night 16-21°, on the coast up to 23°, during the day 28-33°.
In Kyiv on August 23, there will be no precipitation. West, northwest wind, 5-10 m/s. Temperature at night 14-16°, during the day 26-28°.
Restrictions have been imposed on the movement of trucks in Kyiv and at the entrance to the city, the Kyiv Patrol Police press service reported on Telegram on Sunday morning.
“The temporary traffic restriction applies to heavy vehicles with a total weight of more than 24 tons and an axle load of more than 7 tons and applies to both entry to Kyiv and movement around the city,” the statement said.
The police emphasized that the duration of the restriction may vary according to the temperature regime and urged to follow the latest information on their Telegram channel.
“We remind you that the main purpose of these measures is to preserve the road surface, which is being destroyed by heavy traffic of heavy vehicles in hot weather,” the special service said.
