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MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1978
WORK ON ABERDEEN TUNNEL CONTROL BUILDINGS TO START SOON
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WORK WILL START EARLY NEXT MONTH ON THE CONTROL BUILDINGS FOR THE ABERDEEN TUNNEL.
THE CONTRACT FOR THE WORK, WORTH MORE THAN $9 MILLION, WAS SIGNED AT P.W.D.'S HIGHWAYS OFFICE IN MURRAY BUILDING THIS AFTERNOON,
DR, CHOI YU-LEUK, CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE CONSULTANTS MANAGEMENT DIVISION OF THE HIGHWAYS OFFICE, SIGNED FOR THE GOVERNMENT AND MR. VINCENT LO OF SHUI ON CONSTRUCTION CO. LTD. FOR HIS COMPANY.
DR. CHOI SAID THAT THE WORK WOULD CONSIST OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF A THREE-STOREY ADMINISTRATION BUILDING BETWEEN THE SOUTHERN TUNNEL PORTALS AT WONG CHUK HANG, A PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE OVER THE TOLL PLAZA ACROSS THE SOUTHERN APPROACH ROAD AND A SMALL TWO-STOREY CONTROL KIOSK AT THE NORTHERN PORTALS.
HE ADDED THAT THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING WAS DESIGNED TO BLEND IN PLEASANTLY WITH THE PORTAL STRUCTURES AND THE SURROUNDING HILLS IDE.
THIS IS THE SECOND ABERDEEN TUNNEL PROJECT CONTRACT SIGNED WITHIN A WEEK.
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LAST THURSDAY, THE P.W.D. AWARDED A $57.5 MILLION CONTRACT TO CHUI HING CONSTRUCTION CO. LTD. FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE WONG CHUK HANG INTERCHANGE.
THE $306 MILLION TUNNEL PROJECT IS EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED IN 1980.
THE WORK HAS BEEN DESIGNED AND THE CONSTRUCTION WILL BE SUPERVISED BY MAUNSELL CONSULTANTS ASIA ON BEHALF OF THE HIGHWAYS OFFICE OF P.W.D.
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