The Czaika Waste Water Treatment Plant in Warsaw, Poland, is intended to be upgraded to a capacity of 435.000 m³ per day. ILF has been entrusted with the design coordination for the entire project and the detail design of all...[more]

By the end of April 2008 the ILF office in Warsaw relocated premises. The new business address, telephone& fax numbers and the E-mail address can be found at http://www.ilf.com/index.php?id=150&L=1[more]

At the end of March 2008, the kickoff-meeting for the realisation of the "Eastern Province» drinking water supply project in Saudi-Arabia was held. The project compasses the water transmission system from Al Jubail to Dammam...[more]

In March 2008, ILF has been entrusted with the preparation of a risk analysis for the 25 km long Prague-Beroun Tunnel on behalf of the Czech Railway Infrastructure Administration (Správa železniční dopravní cesty, s.o.)....[more]

In December 2007, ILF was entrusted with a design and consultancy contract in cooperation with an Iranian partner office for the water treatment plant No. 2 in Ahwaz, the capital city of Khoozestan Province in Iran. The project,...[more]

The first construction stage of the worlds largest reverse osmosis (RO) wastewater treatment plant with a daily capacity of 375,000 m³ started operation in 2004. Owing to increasing volumes of wastewater flow in Kuwait, it is...[more]

Already in summer 2007 ILF completed the Basic Engineering of the extension of the gas storage plant Puchkirchen and the new gas storage plant Haag in summer 2007. Recently RAG (Rohöl-Aufsuchungs AG) entrusted ILF to perform...[more]

ILF Consulting Engineers Ltd. in Munich was honoured as "Unternehmen mit Weitblick 2007» (Enterprise with Farsightedness 2007) by the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs within the "Perspective 50 plus...[more]

On January 15, 2008 ILF won the Technical Advisor mandate from a consortium comprising Mitsubishi Corporation of Japan and GAMA Enerji of Turkey for the Al Qatrana Independent Power Project (IPP) promoted by the Government of the...[more]

New contract for SALALAH IWPP PROJECT, OMANILF has been awarded with the Technical Advisory manadate for the Salalah IWPP promoted by Oman Power & Water Procurement Company (OPWP) of Oman. The client is a developer consortium...[more]

On 1 December 2007, the new Hungerburgbahn funicular was officially opened after a design and construction time of four years. The funicular railway covering a length of 1,860 m and a rise of 288 m runs overground and underground...[more]

RWE-TGN (Transgas Net) has awarded ILF to assist them in the route selection, design and project management for a new high pressure gas line connecting Olbernhau and Waidhaus. This pipeline will run on Czech territory and is...[more]

ILF opened a new branch office in Salzburg on 1 Nov 2007, which will provide design and consulting services for sanitary and hydropower projects as well as for tunnels. Mr. Arno Gsell is the Head of the branch office. Contact...[more]

In July 2007, ILF was awarded the contract to execute the detail design for the YOHO YB & AWAWA ZBA Gas lift project by ExxonMobil Nigeria/Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited. The project is aimed at increasing crude oil production...[more]

In August 2007, the Bulgarian Ministry of Transport awarded ILF as part of an international consortium within the framework of the Europe Aid Programme the design services for the modernization of the approx. 270 km long railway...[more]

Following the Shoaiba 3 and Shuquaiq 2 IWPPs in Saudi Arabia, ILF again was part of a team to advise the Power and Water Utility Company for Jubail & Yanbu (Marafiq) on the development of the Jubail IWPP which has reached...[more]

ILF was awarded by Oando Plc, the biggest national Nigerian Oil Company, with an engineering contract for Front End Engineering Design of the "Petroleum Products Pipeline from Atlas Cove to Apapa». The objective of the project...[more]

Since many years ILF has been working very successfully on behalf of Bayernoil - comprising Ruhr Öl GmbH, Deutsche BP AG, Agip Deutschland GmbH  of which OMV AG has become the largest shareholder - in the area of refinery...[more]

In June 2007 ILF Ploesti was awarded the Energy Romania 2007 Distinction for Oil, Gas and Energy Services within the biennial PetroGas Tech 2007 International Conference and Fair.[more]

The Sitina Tunnel was officially opened at a ceremony attended by Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, Speaker of Parliament Pavol Paska and numerous high-ranking representatives from politics and commerce on June 23, 2007, after...[more]

Owing to the excellent performance during design and preparation of tender documents for the Shoaiba phase 3 water transmission project, ILF was entrusted with the vetting and approval of the contractor's design and the...[more]

RWE Transportnetz GmbH is operating a gas compressor station at Hünxe (Lower Rhine Area, Wesel District), which was designed and commissioned from 1986 - 1989 by ILF as the owners engineer on behalf of the former owner Thyssen...[more]

Based on the excellent services for phase 1 of the Fujairah Water Transmission Project, TRANSCO entrusted ILF with the tasks of the Owners Engineer for the 2nd phase. The services to be performed by ILF include system layout,...[more]

In Spring 2007 the Greek National Administrator of Railway Infrastructure (EDISY) awarded ILF together with a Greek geotechnical firm with the complete design of lot 1112 of the Western Railway Corridor from Igoumenitsa to...[more]

On 2 and 3 April 2007, Global Water Intelligence, the British analyst of private water projects, invited approx. 300 key people from the international water and desalination sector to attend a high level summit in Barcelona,...[more]

The Polish government intends to diversify the import of natural as an alternative to the gas import from Russia. One solution approach comprises the construction of a LNG import terminal at the Polish coast. At the...[more]

The Central Europe Pipeline System (CEPS) was set up to supply military facilities of NATO in Central Europe. The 2,800 km German part of this system is operated by FernleitungsbetriebsgmbH (FBG) at Bad Godesberg. After having...[more]

ILF Engineers Nigeria LTD completed the contract awarded in January 2006 by ExxonMobil Nigeria/Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited to execute the FEED for the Satellite Field Development Phase 1 - Brownfield to complete...[more]

The ILF business-area "Thermal Power and Desalination Plants" of ILF Munich continues moving up the ladder of success. After thorough evaluation, Shuqaiq Water & Electricity Company (SqWEC) decided to appoint ILF as owner's...[more]

From 8-9 February 2007 the 21 conference on Pipeline Technology took place in Oldenburg where Lars Bangert presented a paper on "Requirements for Young Engineers for the Purposes of an International Engineering company. [more]

The ILF Group has been assigned with a feasibility study for establishing a rail link between Pakistan and China. The study will cover an approx. 750 km section between the endpoint of the existing railway line, 40 km north to...[more]

ILF - in partnership with UKs leading oil and gas contractor Costain - has been appointed by Ineos to develop a front end engineering defintion for leaching and gas storage facilities in Cheshire, UK. This phase of the project...[more]

In 2003 "OOO Roza Khutor Company" decided to build a mountain ski resort as part of the Krasnaya Polyana, close to Sochi which is one of the three cities nominated for the Olympic Games in winter 2014. The project comprises the...[more]

The 380 km TAG Loop II pipeline system, which has started operation on January 1, 2007, is intended to supply the Austrian gas market and to serve mainly as transit line to Italy. The pipeline system runs from the...[more]

In autumn 2006, construction work began on the second (southern) tube of the Roppener Tunnel near Imst, Tyrol. Upon completion of the southern tube, with a length of approx. 5,100 m, the existing northern bore is intended to be...[more]

On October 2, 2006, the Mayor of Lodz, one of the largest cities in Poland, announced to the audience present at the conference room of the Wastewater Treatment Plant that one of the major contracts regarding the ISPA project...[more]

Petrogal, a division of GALP Energia, is Portugals sole oil refiner, operating two refineries, one of which is located in Matosinhos, near Porto. Matosinhos annual production is around 4,5 Mio. tons of fuel, refined oil,...[more]

In order to increase the production from north German gas reservoirs in Walsrode it is foreseen to construct a compressor station consisting of two identical units of 1,5 MW each with  6.000-80.000 m³/h throughput. The...[more]

On September 1st, 2006 the worlds largest hard-rock Tunnel Boring Machine with a diameter of 14.4 m started the excavation at the Niagara Tunnel Project in Ontario, Canada. The TBM was designed and built by the Robbins Company,...[more]

A proposed new rail line under the Hudson River takes a big step forward becoming a reality and ILF Consulting Engineers is in the design team together with PB/CH2M Hill. The new tunnel project is a needed improvement to the...[more]

On September 29, 2006, the solid waste-treatment plant was officially opened in presence of local and national authorities in Prazuchy Nowe/Kalisz, Poland. For this project, ILF performed all services of the "Engineer" according...[more]

Phase IV of the Great Man Made River Project (GMMR) in Libya is at present one of the largest water-transmission projects in the world. The Ghadames-Zwara-Az Zawiyah-Water-System is intended to transport water from a well field...[more]

Since April 2005, ILF Kazakhstan has been successfully performing project management services for the construction of the Kazakhstan-China Crude Oil Pipeline designed to transport ten MTA crude oil from Atasu to Alashankou on the...[more]

ACWA Power Projects looks to continue its clean sweep of the Saudi desalination programme with a stunning bid for the Red Sea power and water project. Each month we seem to get a new instalment of excitement from the Gulf power...[more]

PETROM Kazakhstan is developing the oil field Komsomolskoe at present. The operator is KOM-MUNAI, Ltd., subsidiary of OMV - owned Petrom, S.A., Romania, which belongs to the OMV-Group. For exploitation of the Komsomolskoe oil...[more]

Saalbach-Hinterglemm, located in the federal state of Salzburg and firmly established as one of Austrias major winter sports regions, has been - with slopes to 270 ha in size covered by artificial snow - in the lead of using...[more]

The federal institution for road construction of the region North Rhein-Westphalia awarded ILF with the design of the safety-engineering systems of the Airport Tunnel Düsseldorf, the Tunnel Wersten and the Tunnel University. For...[more]

In the middle of August 2006 the formal application for commencement of the authority permit procedure (including public hearings) have been submitted concerning the "Albaufstieg" as part of the new high-speed railway line...[more]

In August 2006 Punj LLOYD Ltd. (PLL), a major engineering and construction company in India has received a major order from Sirte Oil Company (SOC), Libya that comprises the completion of the El-Khom-Tripoli pipeline project...[more]

OMV Refinery Burghausen is performing one of the biggest revamps in its history at present. The project has been subdivided into six sub-projects, and the total investment costs amount to approx. € 200 million. TECON...[more]

On Thursday, July 13th, 2006 the BTC-Pipeline was inaugurated at a ceremony in Ceyhan, in presence of several acting presidents, prime ministers, numeral high-officials from politics and economy and the international press....[more]

Since the Greater Tehran area (approx. 10.5 million inhabitants) has neither a functioning sewerage network nor sewage treatment plants of adequate capacity, the city authorities proposed the implementation of the "Tehran...[more]

The Cantonal Civil Engineering Office Zurich awarded ILF Consulting Engineers (Zurich branch) with the preparation of a feasibility study for the use of a tunnel boring machine (TBM) with a diameter of approx. 16...[more]

On the 2nd June 2006, the Southern Tube of the approx. 5.8 km long Strenger Tunnel (twin-tube), which completes the last part of the S 16 Arlberg Expressway between Zams and Dalaas West (51.8 km), has been opened for traffic....[more]

On June 30, 2006, the last day of the Austrian EU-Presidency, initial works for the Brenner Base Tunnel along the border line between Italy and Austria were ceremonially started at the Brenner Pass. Europes largest infrastructure...[more]

The 89 km newly built ICE railway line from Nuremberg to Ingolstadt was officially opened on May 28, 2006, just in time for the FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany. Together with the 82 km upgraded railway line ICE services will be...[more]

The 3rd International Conference on Tunnel Safety and Ventilation took place in Graz, Austria, from 15 -17 May, 2006. Experts from ILF presented papers with the following topics: Risk Analysis in the Framework of the Austrian...[more]

Between 1982 and 1984 the Yntymak Dam was built at the Nura River in Kazakhstan, to the west of Caraganda. The stored water was mainly intended for the irrigation of areas to be used in the future. In 1984 construction works were...[more]

ILF Romania has been awarded a big contract from Petrom "Depots Revamp in Romania".  Petrom will construct 13 depots for petroleum products distribution in Romania over the coming 6 years. Ten new depots will be located...[more]

In September 2004 ILF was awarded the contract for the general design of a new logistics centre in Rankweil by the company Herman Tschabrun Leasing Ltd., Austria. The building, with a length of 115 m and a width of 110 m,...[more]

Vice-Chancellor Hubert Gorbach officiated a ground breaking ceremony to mark the first day of construction concerning the second tube of the Pfänder Tunnel on April 28, 2006 and emphasized the importance of the project: "The...[more]

On 12 April 2006 Mr. Heribert Marko, Office Manager of ILF Riyadh, was awarded the Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria by the Austrian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Dr. Friedrich Stift on behalf...[more]

On 9 March 2006 Transalpine Pipeline (TAL) celebrated the transport of one billion tons of crude oil through their 40" pipeline from Trieste across the Alps. TAL was able to achieve this extraordinary performance without any...[more]

In mid 2005 ILF was charged with the preparation of a unit-price contract for the Tunnel Blessberg, Lot 2 (tunnel length of 4663m). Due to lack of financial cover in 1998 a first tendering could not be launched. The tunnel...[more]

Already in May 2005 ILF Innsbruck was awarded a design contract for the relocation of the national road B23 west of Garmisch-Partenkirchen- section "Kramer Tunnel". The contract comprises the geological works for the official...[more]

The inaugural Middle East Gas Conference, Gas Arabia, was held on 5th, 6th March 2006, in Abu Dhabi. ILF Abu Dhabi supported the conference as event sponsor and event participant. With the need for the continued analysis and...[more]

Due to a convincing implementation concept KfW (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau, Germany) awarded ILF the contract for the improvement of the urban water supply in currently 6 municipalities in the North of Bosnia Herzegovina. KfW...[more]

In February 2006 Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC), Saudi Arabia, assigned ILF the contract for design verification and supervision services for the water transmission system Shoaiba Phase 3. The system comprises the...[more]