The building arm of Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has bagged ‘large contracts’ from Chennai Metro Rail Corporation(CMRL), relating to its heavy civil infrastructure small business.
L&T classifies ‘large contracts’ as projects worth in the bracket of Rs 2,500 crore to Rs 5,000 crore.
The companay has won the contract for constructing practically 12 km of twin bored tunnels from Kellys station to Taramani Road junction station. It also entails building of diaphragm walls of station box and entry / exit structures of Chetpet metro, Royapettah government hospital, Thiruvanmiyur metro stations and element diaphragm wall of Greenways road metro station, like launching and retrieval shafts in these stations.
This underground metro rail tunnel package is a element of corridor 3 of CMRL phase-II metro rail project and is to be constructed in about 52 months by utilizing eight tunnel boring machines working simultaneously in numerous stretches of the project, stated a release by L&T.
The business has also secured an additional order from CMRL to construct close to 8 km of elevated viaduct with 9 elevated metro stations beginning from Power House to Porur junction like other connected functions. The elevated corridor contains about 4 km of double deck building in which each the decks are applied for metro rail, which will be the very first of its sort in India. This elevated metro rail package is a element of corridor 4 of CMRL phase-II and is to be constructed in 36 months’ time.
L&T stated these projects are the very first packages of phase – II, which had been awarded by CMRL. Both the projects have been bagged beneath stiff competitors from domestic and international metro building players.