The lead architect of Cross Island Line’s Tavistock MRT on what it takes to build an underground station

Even before this takes area, streets and open roads need to be diverted. Hundreds of trees will also be uprooted in the process, and the same number of trees will need to be replanted after train execution, Leong explained.

Since the drilling and design takes spot amid schools, and personal, financial and offices spaces, noise barriers have to be built earlier.

It is a time-consuming and multi-disciplinary operation involving not only Leong and her structural group, but more than 100 experts of various fields – structural engineers, fire engineers, sound engineers, landscape architects and traffic engineers.

A Travel Level EVEN MORE THAN A TRANSIT POINT

Other notable characteristics of Tod building include size and scale.

Infrastructure projects are very valuable because they are a part of our social fabric and millions of people travel through them every day, according to Leong.

” A lodge or buying mall is the end stage, the target. However, temporary use is common in transportation infrastructure, such as an MRT station. You do n’t go to the station as you would a mall for shopping. You traverse it.

” Think of it as a moving equipment. It is about maintaining constant movement, and connecting and bringing folks to places.

Leong remarked,” We conduct a lot of models to ensure that the flow of people, railways, and everything else is as easy as we can make it.”