Afcons fast-tracks Kanpur metro rail project
AFCONS won the contract for this work in September 2019 with Bombardier Transportation (now acquired by Alstom) won a contract to provide rolling stock and signalling systems for the project in July 2020. Kanpur Metro also became the first metro in India to use double T-girders for a metro rail corridor which saves cost and time to a great extent. The casting of all 439 double T-girders has already been completed and the erection of these double T-girders is completed on 8 metro stations out of the total 9 metro stations on Priority Corridor. UPMRC has also come up with another innovation in the form of Twin pier Cap which is constructed for the Kanpur Metro depot line which will run from Gurudev to Geeta Nagar connecting the mainline and the Polytechnic Metro Depot. Managing Director of UPMRC, Kumar Keshav, informed that twin pier cap is the second such successful innovation after the double T-girder, which has been implemented for the first time in the Metro Rail sector of India. The credit for this goes to the research and innovation-based working style of the metro engineers. The entire team of UPMRC, civil contractor AFCONS and the General Consultants deserve applauds on this achievement.
Published on:
23 April 2021
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