Today the Land Transport Authority announced the award of 4 contracts to build stations and associated tunnels. With the award of these 4 contracts, there only remain 3 such contracts for all stations to be awarded to contractors.
The first award is for contract T218, involving the construction of Orchard Boulevard station only. This contract has gone to local company KTC that is currently working on the Tampines Central station on the Downtown Line.
The first render issued of Orchard Boulevard station. It lacks certain details made more prominent in subsequent renders. |
The second contract awarded is T220 for the construction of Great World station along with two pairs of tunnels towards Havelock and Orchard stations on either end. This was awarded to the joint venture of Tiong Seng and Dongah Geological. Currently, Tiong Seng is involved in a joint venture with GS E&C constructing Cashew & Hillview stations on Downtown Line 2. Dongah has been involved in tunneling for contracts on the Downtown Line as well, such as Contract 915 for the construction of tunnels between Hillview and Beauty World.
An early render of Great World station. |
This is entrance E which will feature two elevators linking the pedestrian overhead bridge across from Great World City. |
The contract for construction of the interchange with the East-West and North-East Lines, contract T222 for Outram Park station and two pairs of tunnels towards Maxwell and Havelock stations, was awarded to Daelim Industrial. Daelim currently is not involved in the construction of any MRT project in Singapore.
The final contract awarded, T225, is for the construction of Shenton Way station. This was awarded to Shanghai Tunneling E&C (STEC). STEC also won contract T206 previously, for the construction of tunnels from Woodlands station to Woodlands Avenue 12 and Mandai Depot. Do stay tuned for our update on this particular contract coming up on Thursday. As for T225, it involves the construction of Shenton Way station as well as two pairs of bored tunnels towards Maxwell and Marina Bay stations on either end.
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