There are many companies and businesses in Armenia that for many years have made a great contribution to the development of the country's economy and have a very solid portfolio of successful projects, products or services. ARPA-SEVAN Construction Company played a truly tremendous role for Armenia and the Armenian people for the last 50 years.

ARPA-SEVAN tunnel can be considered a nationwide construction site. Many sons and daughters of the Armenian people from all over the world have made a great contribution to its implementation. But for the big team of ARPA-SEVAN Construction Company, this project has become a project of a lifetime, and the main burden of difficulties and heroism lie on their shoulders.

ARPA-SEVAN Tunnel is a brilliant achievement of Armenia as well as for ARPA-SEVAN Construction Company.

The ARPA-SEVAN Construction Company has about 140 successfully completed large projects in its portfolio, but the construction of the VOROTAN- ARPA-SEVAN hydro-technical structure certainly stands out among them as an unprecedented global construction project. For a brief substantiation of this, it is sufficient to note only a few facts of this gigantic most complicated construction project:

• The total length of two underground water tunnels is 70 kilometers below the mountains.
• The depth of the underground tunnel reaches 1250 meters.
• Construction work was sometimes carried out in conditions of 55C of heat. People, drillers in this heat worked only in shorts.
• In such depths there were a lot of dangerous gases, such as: CO and CO2.
• While drilling, workers had to deal with hot and cold deep waters, various hard or brittle rocks.
• While working, people lived in the mountains, at an altitude of 2750 meters.
• More than 1 million cubic meters of rock was removed from the earth's crust.
• The total amount of concrete work amounted to more than 320 thousand cubic meters.
• The construction of the ARPA-SEVAN tunnel provided the opportunity to transfer 250 million cubic meters of water per year from the mountain rivers of Armenia, and thus save the unique Lake SEVAN, which is vital for Armenia.

About ARPA-SEVAN Construction Company

The foundation of the ARPA-SEVAN Construction Company, as a separate organizational and financial unit, dates back from 1969 of the Soviet period of Armenia.

In 1998, the company was privatized and since then has operated as an open joint-stock company. The registered equity (ordinary) shares of the Company have been listed and entered in the secondary (B) stock list by NASDAQ OMX Armenia. The free circulation of Company shares addressed and repot transactions are authorized.

ARPA-SEVAN Construction Company:

• Successfully completed more than 140 large complex construction projects in Armenia
• Implemented more than 104 km of borehole in complex mountainous and underground locations.
• Constructed and installed about 100 kilometers of pipelines.
• Built main water channels with a length of more than 110 kilometers.
• Built approximately 40 residential buildings.
• Has a solid personnel base - more than 500 professional highly qualified specialists, most of them have been working for the Company for more than 30 years.
• Has a unique technical base and equipment, 80% of which are new.

Main products and services of the ARPA-SEVAN Construction Company

Design and construction

The Company implements ground and underground construction in different fields, such as:

• Construction of hydraulic structures
• Construction of hydro-engineering structures
• Tunnel construction
• Drilling and blasting
• Underground excavation
• Shotcrete works
• Construction of industrial structures
• Reinforcement of bank protection structures
• Construction of gas and all types of pipelines
• Construction of foundations
• Earthworks
• Construction of monolithic structures
• Construction of reservoirs
• Reinforcement of buildings and structures
• Installation of metal structures
• Cement injection
• Other construction works

Trust management

The Company runs the management of hydraulic and hydrotechnical structures as well as tunnels and pipelines of all types.

Distribution

The Company is the official representative of the following companies in Armenia: · GEN SET - a manufacturer of portable and stationary power suppliers, welding generators, Italy. · ATLAS COPCO - a manufacturer of air compressors, vacuum pumps, drilling equipment and diesel generators, Belgium. · G.M. GRUPPI ELETTROGENI - a manufacturer of portable and stationary power suppliers, welding generators, lighting towers, Italy.

Other products and services

The Company manufactures the following products:

• Concrete
• Concrete components
• Metal structures

Certificates in ARPA-SEVAN Construction Company

• In 2017 “TUV InterCert SAAR” introduced ISO 9001:2015 standards’ system.
• In 2017 “TOP TEN AWARD” introduced OHSAS 18001:2007 standards’ system.
• In 2017 “NACIONAL INSTITUT OF STANDARD” CJSC introduced iso 14001:2015 CERTIFICATE OF CONFORMITY.

Licenses of ARPA-SEVAN Construction Company

ARPA-SEVAN CJSC operates in line with the legislation of RA.

• License №7496 of the Ministry of Urban Development for capital construction in in following spheres
• License №7496-1 Capital Construction Housing, civil and industrial construction
• License №7496-2 Capital Construction in Transport
• License №7496 -3 Capital Construction in Hydro technical Construction
• License №7496-4 Capital Construction in Power engineering
• License №7496-5 Capital Construction in Communication
• License №32 for trade in blasting agents and explosive materials.
• License №16071 for development of documentation and expertise in Urban Construction
• Development of documentation and expertise in Urban Construction, Transportation, License №16071-2
• Development of documentation and expertise in Urban Construction, License №16071-3, Hydrotechnical
• Development of documentation and expertise in Urban Construction, License №16071-4, Power Engineering.