Alpine Completes First Singapore Subway Tunnel

IndustrialsConstruction ♦ Published: September 10, 2012; 13:34 ♦ (Vindobona)

The Austrian construction company is building six subway tunnels and three subway stations for the Singapore Downtown Line.

Alpine Completes First Singapore Subway Tunnel / Picture: © Vindobona.org

The Austrian Alpine Construction Company completed the first of six subway tunnels for the Downtown Line in the center of Singapore, a city with a population of five million. ALPINE’s tunnel drill recently achieved a performance of 93 meters per week drilling a tube with a diameter of 6.6 meters through the underground between the “Tan Kah Dee” and “Sixth Avenue” stations, a…