This is the third project to be awarded by the Highways Department to Leighton on the CWB project, following the award of contracts to build Central Interchange and the Central Reclamation Phase III.
The latest contract requires Leighton to install extensive specialist mechanical and electrical (M&E) works, road tunnel wall cladding, the tunnel roof thermal barrier and the road pavement construction for the complete tunnel. It also includes the construction and fit-out of ventilation buildings and an administration building. Contract works will start immediately and are scheduled for completion by 2018.
Leighton Holdings chief executive officer Hamish Tyrwhitt said: “This award fits with our strategy of continuing to expand our infrastructure footprint throughout Asia.”
The Central to Wanchai Bypass is a strategic East-West highway route for traffic between the central business district and the population centre in the Eastern part of Hong Kong Island. Its completion will enable traffic to bypass the heavily congested roads
along Hong Kong Island’s north shore Wanchai and Causeway Bay area.
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