A subsidiary of India's Punj Lloyd Group has won its first order in Hong Kong to construct MTR Corp.'s Shatin to Central Link Diamond Hill Extension Station, located in northern Kowloon. The firm's Hong Kong-based unit, Sembawang Engineers and Constructors, has won the $212-million job with consortium partner Leader Civil Engineering Corp. Ltd.
The 17-kilometer Shatin to Central Link (SCL) is part of Hong Kong's strategic infrastructure plan to develop a railway network to meet its fast-growing future transport needs. Estimated to cost $8.3 billion and split into 10 main contracts, the plan includes building 12 km of new tunnels, four new stations and reconfiguring two interconnecting stations. The work will link several existing railway lines to form strategic north-south and east-west corridors in the region.