CONS PROBATION SPACE
Construction period
Tender and Contract Programme
No. of major contracts
Construction methods
OPERATIONAL STAGE
Operating Staff
MODIFIED INTIAL SYSTEM
November 1975 to December 1979
All contracts awarded
25 civil engineering
11 electrical and mechanical
engineering
Basically four:
(1) Immersed Tube - by sinking and
joining together 14 pre-fabricated tunnel segments.
(2) Underground stations by cut-and-
Cover
(3) Tunnels
mainly bored tunnelling.
(including tunnelling under
compressed air), small sections
by cut-and-cover
(4) Overhead stations and running line
similar to flyover construction
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About $100 workers employed by contrectors during peak construction period. This will be about 12% of total construction work force in Hong Kong.
1,000
.:
"TOUEN WAN PYENSION
Late 1978 to end of 1982
Major contracts avarded
10 civil engineering
21 electrical and mechanical engineering
Basically same as MIS, except that there is no Immersed Tube
For combined railway 1,800
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