L&T arm bags ‘large contracts’ from Chennai Metro

This underground metro rail tunnel bundle is part of hall 3 of CMRL phase-II metro rail venture and is to be constructed in round 52 months through the use of eight tunnel boring machines working concurrently in varied stretches of the venture, mentioned a launch by L&T.

The development arm of Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has bagged ‘massive contracts’ from Chennai Metro Rail Company(CMRL), referring to its heavy civil infrastructure enterprise.

L&T classifies ‘massive contracts’ as tasks price within the bracket of Rs 2,500 crore to Rs 5,000 crore.

The companay has received the contract for establishing almost 12 km of dual bored tunnels from Kellys station to Taramani Street junction station. It additionally includes development of diaphragm partitions of station field and entry / exit buildings of Chetpet metro, Royapettah authorities hospital, Thiruvanmiyur metro stations and half diaphragm wall of Greenways street metro station, together with launching and retrieval shafts in these stations.

This underground metro rail tunnel bundle is part of hall 3 of CMRL phase-II metro rail venture and is to be constructed in round 52 months through the use of eight tunnel boring machines working concurrently in varied stretches of the venture, mentioned a launch by L&T.

The corporate has additionally secured one other order from CMRL to assemble shut to eight km of elevated viaduct with 9 elevated metro stations ranging from Energy Home to Porur junction together with different related works. The elevated hall contains round 4 km of double deck development through which each the decks are used for metro rail, which would be the first of its form in India. This elevated metro rail bundle is part of hall 4 of CMRL phase-II and is to be constructed in 36 months’ time.

L&T mentioned these tasks are the primary packages of section – II, which had been awarded by CMRL. Each the tasks have been bagged underneath stiff competitors from home and worldwide metro development gamers.