DETAILS Our MRT Information Centre is OPEN again but VIRTUALLY now! Hosted on a digital platform, visitors will get to join an interactive 360° virtual tour of our site, guided by our experts on hand to share about the MRT project and the construction processes behind it. Each visit is limited to 40 participants per […]
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AS TURNKEY contractor in the Putrajaya MRT project including the underground works package for the over 50km-long alignment from Sungai Buloh to Putrajaya via Serdang, MMC Gamuda KVMRT (MGJV) has more than 16,000 workers under its watch. To date, MGJV remains the only contractor to have implemented compulsory fortnightly Covid-19 screening for its workforce, using
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Building subsurface infrastructure has long been a dirty and dangerous job. Specialized miners (known as sandhogs in New York) work alongside massive tunnel boring machines to build spaces deep underground for transportation or utilities. With diameters reaching 17.5 meters, tunnel boring machines (TBMs) slowly grind their way through a host of geologic formations ranging from
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Stoked by their debut success with the timely completion of Kajang Line’s underground section, Gamuda Engineering found themselves pitted once more against the unique challenges of tunnelling in Kuala Lumpur’s notorious karstic limestone, abrasive granite regions, and complex geological interfaces. Read More
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GLOBALLY, the pandemic has brought chaos, and this is all the more apparent in the construction sector. Just last week, the Government ordered at least two construction sites to be closed after hundreds of workers came down with Covid-19, following the discovery of the Damanlela cluster at one site in Pusat Bandar Damansara, Kuala Lumpur.
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11th October 2020 saw the last tunnel ring that makes up the 13.5km-stretch of the Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit (KVMRT) twin bored tunnels finally completed. Part of a 52km alignment known as the Putrajaya line, it is the second extension to the first Kajang line, Malaysia’s first metro network designed to connect satellite towns to
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KUALA LUMPUR: The My30 unlimited travel pass will continue into 2021 and will also be expanded beyond the Klang Valley to Penang and Kuantan. In the Budget 2021 announcement yesterday, an allocation of RM300mil will allow commuters unlimited use of bus and rail services provided by Prasarana Malaysia Bhd (under the Rapid brand) as well
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On 11 October 2020, the last of the tunnel ring making up the 13.5 km-stretch of the Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit (KVMRT) twin bored tunnels was finally completed. Part of a 52 km alignment known as the Putrajaya line, it is the second extension to the first Kajang line, and also Malaysia’s first metro network meant
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WITH 16,000 tunnel segment rings produced by Malaysian precasters, the tunnels of the Putrajaya MRT Line (formerly the Sungai Buloh-Serdang-Putrajaya Line) are testament to Malaysian determination in construction. This is especially true for MMC Gamuda Joint Venture (MGJV), the main contractor for the underground portion of the Klang Valley MRT project’s second line. Despite being
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A COMMON application of augmented reality (AR) in construction is to overlay digital 3D building information modelling (BIM) data onto a real-world environment sing holographic displays, smart glasses and handled devices. While walking through a project on site, engineers and architects can quickly identify discrepancies between a design blueprint and the actual constructed environment. Future
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