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KUALA LUMPUR: Some 1,000 workers involved in the construction of the MRT Putrajaya Line have received their Covid-19 vaccines under a pilot programme. The vaccination exercise was part of the MYMedic@Wilayah Vaccine Mobile Truck project aimed at speeding up vaccination of workers involved in essential sectors that are allowed to operate during the movement control …
KUALA LUMPUR: The MRT3 line will be up for tender as soon as August, once the Cabinet clears the details of this massive urban public transport project that will connect all the existing urban rail lines in the Klang Valley. Also known as the Circle Line, this third MRT line will play the crucial role …
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 …
Nurhidayah binti Mohd Suhaimi represents the younger generation of women today – strong willed, tech savvy, and not afraid of the unfamiliar. A new face in the construction industry, she may very well be the only female drone surveyor in Malaysia at the moment. “Most companies seem to prefer hiring men over women for this …
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Inspired by her late father, Suzanne Ng Siew Lian has found her calling as a civil engineer. She is now working at Malaysian construction company MMC Gamuda, based in Kuala Lumpur. “My late father was a civil engineer himself. He used to share some of his interesting encounters with the family, which often fascinated me. I …
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 …
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 …
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
KUALA LUMPUR: Construction giant Gamuda Bhd and its joint-venture entity MMC Gamuda (MGJV) has unveiled its own polymerase chain reaction (PCR) laboratory to expedite Covid-19 screening and monitoring among its workers. Located at Jalan Chan Sow Lin here, the facility equipped with the latest technology was up and running in just four weeks after the …
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. …
