Sunday 19 January 2014

Progress update (tenders)

As of January 2014, several civil contracts have been awarded, others tendered and closed and a handful remain open. Here's a progress report for the beginning of the year.


Tenders awarded:
T201 - Mandai depot - Jurong Primewide
T202 - Woodlands North - Penta-Ocean
T203 - Woodlands - GS E&C
T205 - Woodlands South - Woh Hup
T206 - Reception tunnels - Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Co (STEC)
T207 - Tunnels to Springleaf - Shimizu Corp
T208 - Springleaf - John Holland-Leighton JV
T209 - Lentor - China Railway No 5 Bureau E&C
T210 - Mayflower - Gammon Construction
T212 - Upper Thomson - Sato Kogyo
T213 - Caldecott - Samsung C&T
T217 - Napier - Sinohydro Corporation

Tenders closed:
T211 - Sin Ming
T215 - Mount Pleasant
T216 - Stevens
T221 - Havelock
T226 - Marina Bay
T251 - Electric Trains

Tenders under bidding:
T218 - Orchard Boulevard
T219 - Orchard
T220 - Great World
T222 - Outram Park
T223 - Maxwell
T225 - Shenton Way
T227 - Marina South
T228 - Gardens by the Bay

The following 2 contracts of T211 and T226 is scheduled to be awarded by end February. This round of tendering is likely to be awarded to the lowest bidder, in which we're speculating Penta Ocean and Taisei for T211 and T226 respectively. The total sum of both contracts will cost around S$900m.

Monday 13 January 2014

Caldecott - It's Beginning

For our first construction update, we're pleased to say that the line's first site office is already up and operational at Caldecott. Structural works for the site office at Woodlands South have already commenced and should be next in line to be completed. We are anticipating the groundbreaking ceremony to be held here at Caldecott. More information will come in due course.

Some information about T213 
This contract oversees the construction & completion of Caldecott station and the adjacent cripple siding named Thomson Cripple Siding (TCS) to the south. The main span of this 3-trackway cripple siding would be constructed entirely by mining, a first of its kind method ever undertaken here. Two open-cut points will be constructed on either sides of Toa Payoh West, thereby segregating the site area into two. The 134m section between both points will be built with 3 arcs of pipe-roof. The southern point will also facilitate two breakthroughs bored by a single TBM that will launch from Mount Pleasant, under its neighbouring contractor T215.

Works of T213 include the Addition and Alteration (A&A) to the existing Caldecott Circle Line station. Both stations will be linked by a paid subway link. The existing exit A will eventually be downgraded to an emergency exit, while the fare line in the existing station gets reconfigured, including the shifting of faregates, new station control room and removal of existing plant rooms in the CCL station.

TSL Caldecott will have 4 levels (Concourse, Mezzanine 1&2, Platform (TOR 81.60m)) and 2 new entrances constructed on either sides of Toa Payoh Rise.


Aerial Overview of the main site