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Gülermak

Gülermak Ağır Sanayi İnşaat ve Taahhüt A Ş. (Gülermak in short form; English: "Gülermak Heavy Industry Construction and Contracting") is a Turkish construction company, especially for rail transport, established in 1958.[2]

Gülermak Ağır Sanayi İnşaat ve Taahhüt A Ş.
IndustryConstruction
Founded1958; 68 years ago (1958) in Turkey
Headquarters
Ankara
,
Turkey
Area served
International
ProductsTransport
RevenueIncrease $1 billion (2024)
Increase $105 million (2024)
Increase $102 million (2024)
Total assetsIncrease $1.18 billion (2024)
Total equityIncrease $233 million (2024)
Number of employees
2,707 [1] (2024)
Websitegulermak.com.tr

Overview

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Gülermak has constructed more than 260 km (160 mi) of underground tunnels and 120 metro stations.[3] According to Engineering News-Record (ENR), in 2020 the company was ranked as the 124th international contractor in the world with revenues of $699.1 million.[4] The company maintains offices in Ankara, Turkey; Warsaw, Poland;[5] Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Stockholm, Sweden; and Mumbai, India.[citation needed]

Gülermak undertakes international construction projects, primarily in the rail transport sector, with operations in India,[6] Norway,[7] Poland,[8][9][10][11][12] Turkey,[13] and the United Arab Emirates.[14][15] Notable projects involving the company include:

Gülermak is part of the ExpoLink Consortium, established in 2016, comprising Alstom, Acciona, and Gülermak, that is constructing the Route 2020 metro line, part of the Dubai Metro, linking Expo 2020 to the Red Line.[15][16] In 2020, Gülermak was awarded a Kraków tram line contract in Poland.[10] Examples of projects include metro stations and infrastructure in India,[17][18] a metro line branch in Dubai,[19][20] the underground in Warsaw.[21][22] Gülermak has its own assembly lines.[23]

The company's projects, especially tunnelling using tunnel boring machines (TBMs), have been discussed in peer-reviewed papers.[24][25][26] Record-breaking results involving the company have been reported on the Dudullu-Bostancı Metro Line in Istanbul.[27]

In October 2022, Gülermak entered the infrastructure market in the Philippines as part of a joint venture with Lotte Engineering & Construction and EEI Corporation to support the development of the North–South Commuter Railway (NSCR). The consortium was selected by the Philippine Department of Transportation to oversee the civil engineering and construction of a 22-hectare railway depot located in Calamba, Laguna. As a critical component of the wider 147-kilometer regional rail network financed by the Asian Development Bank, the project is designed to modernize transportation between Metro Manila and neighboring provinces, significantly reducing travel times across the island of Luzon.[28][29]

In 2023 Gülermak entered into an eight-year joint venture with Alstom (French manufacturer) and Arcada (a Romanian construction company) . The consortium of organisations won their bid for the 1.82 billion Euro contract to design and construct the first metro line in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.[30]

Controversy

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In 2017, it was reported that the company experienced delays in the software for the signalling system of the Ankara-Konya High-Speed Train.[31] In early 2021, there were reported issues with salary payments for the company's workers during the construction of the Sabiha Gökçen Airport metro.[32]

See also

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References

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  1. ↑ "Gulermak Office Locations". Craft. Retrieved 8 June 2024.
  2. ↑ "Gülermak Heavy Industry Construction And Contr. Inc". Turkish Exportal. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  3. ↑ "Gülermak Heavy Industries Construction And Contracting Co. Inc". Devex. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  4. ↑ "The Top 250 International Contractors" (PDF). Engineering News-Record. August 17, 2020. pp. 33–52.
  5. ↑ "Contact". Gülermak. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
  6. ↑ Khare, Anushka (2020-12-29). "Gulermak-led JV wins Rs 1,073 crore civil contract package of Surat Metro Rail Project". Urban Transport News.
  7. ↑ "GÜLERMAK is interested in Norway's Largest Highway Tender". Railly News. 2020-07-01.
  8. ↑ "Gülermak to Construct 3.2 Km Long Highway Tunnel in Poland". Railly News. 2019-03-18. Retrieved 2021-06-04.
  9. ↑ "Gülermak Preferred Edilon Sedra EBS Solution for Warsaw Subway". Railly News. 2019-12-14. Retrieved 2021-06-04.
  10. 1 2 "Kraków tram line PPP contract awarded". Railway Gazette International. 3 December 2020.
  11. ↑ "WAS Informacja o podpisaniu umowy z kontrahentem". money.pl (in Polish). 2021-05-26. Retrieved 2021-06-04.
  12. ↑ "Gülermak uses Powerproject in the joint delivery of Warsaw Metro extension". Elecosoft. Retrieved 2021-06-04.
  13. ↑ Briginshaw, David (2020-06-11). "Thales to install CBTC on three Asian metro projects – Istanbul". International Railway Journal. Retrieved 2021-06-04.
  14. ↑ "Gülermak Construction Wins Dubai Metro Tender". rayhaber.com. 2016-07-22. Retrieved 2021-06-04.
  15. 1 2 Cordero Sapién, Josephine (16 February 2021). "Dubai Route 2020 Metro Line Starts Carrying Passengers". Railway-News.
  16. ↑ "Dubai RTA commences Route 2020 Metro revenue service". Railway Technology. 17 February 2021.
  17. ↑ "India, United States: Gulermak-TPL to develop underground metro project in LUCKNOW". MENA Report. London. 30 April 2016.
  18. ↑ "India: SAM India-Gulermak JV found to be technically qualified to get contract DC-03 of Delhi Metro Phase IV". MENA Report. London. 4 June 2020.
  19. ↑ "France, United Arab Emirates: Expolink consortium of Alstom, Acciona and Gulermak inks 2.6bn contract for Dubai's Red metro line". MENA Report. London. 14 October 2016.
  20. ↑ "Alstom, ACCIONA, Gulermak Sign Contract with RTA for Extension of Dubai Metro's Red line". India Energy News. New Delhi. 10 October 2016.
  21. ↑ "Gulermak to Expand Warsaw's Underground". Polish News Bulletin. Warsaw. 30 September 2016.
  22. ↑ "Contractors chosen for Warsaw Line M2 extensions". International Railway Journal. 55 (12). New York. December 2015.
  23. ↑ "Gülermak Orders PEMA Assembly Line". Metal Center News. Radnor. September 2020.
  24. ↑ Clark, Jim; Chorley, Steve (2014). "The Greatest Challenges in TBM Tunneling: Experiences from the Field" (PDF). North American Tunneling Conference. pp. 101–108.
  25. ↑ Clark, Jim (May 22–28, 2015). "Extreme Excavation in Fault Zones and Squeezing Ground at the Kargi HEPP in Turkey" (PDF). SEE Tunnel: Promoting Tunneling in SEE Region. Lacroma Valamar Congress Center, Dubrovnik, Croatia: ITAWTC 2015 Congress and 41st General Assembly.
  26. ↑ Home, Lok (August 2016). "Hard rock TBM tunneling in challenging ground: Developments and lessons learned from the field". Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology. 57: 27–32. Bibcode:2016TUSTI..57...27H. doi:10.1016/j.tust.2016.01.008.
  27. ↑ Koç, E.; Matheson, B.A.; Bringiotti, M. (2019). "Record-breaking results through teamwork on Istanbul's Dudullu-Bostancı Metro Line". Tunnels and Underground Cities: Engineering and Innovation meet Archaeology, Architecture and Art. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0429424441.
  28. ↑ Artymiuk, Simon (October 10, 2022). "Philippines signs US$1.8bn of contracts for South Commuter Railway project". International Railway Journal. Retrieved May 15, 2026.
  29. ↑ Romero, Maria Bernadette (October 6, 2022). "Asian, European, Pinoy firms win bid to rail civil works project". Daily Tribune. Retrieved May 15, 2026.
  30. ↑ "Gulermak-Alstom-Arcada tie-up wins deal to build Cluj-Napoca metro - mayor". SeeNews. Retrieved 2023-10-31.
  31. ↑ "Sinyalizasyona iki kez erteleme". BirGün (in Turkish). 15 December 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
  32. ↑ "Sabiha Gökçen Havalimanı metro şantiyesinde işçilerin maaşı 2 aydır ödenmiyor!". İleri Haber (in Turkish). 28 January 2021. Retrieved 26 June 2021.
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