L&T Hyderabad Metro achieves major milestone.

Hyderabad Metro rail project has created a construction record today with the erection of the 1.000th viaduct span and completion of 27 Km of metro viaduct in just 20 months.

The first span was erected in December 2012, the 1,000th span was erected recently.

This marks completion of 38 per cent of the viaduct works (out of a total of 2,665 spans required for 72 km) so far, according to a statement from Hyderabad Metro.

Mumbai took about seven years to complete 11 km of Metro viaduct, Bangalore and Chennai took over 5 years to complete about 25 km of viaduct each; and Delhi took more than 3 years to achieve the same, the statement further mentioned.

On being informed by MD of Hyderabad Metro, NVS Reddy, about this engineering feat, the Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao congratulated the team of engineers in HMR and L&T.

As on date 1,473 foundations (56 per cent), 1,370 pillars (52 per cent) are completed, he stated.


HBL