The award follows this month’s approval of additional funding to ensure that the contract does not delay the opening of the bridge. The start of the works has been delayed by a year because of a judicial review in relation to air quality issues in the environmental assessments and permits for this and another scheme. Both are vital to the opening of the HZMB. The aim is to catch up on progress through the compression of programmes, and by using more machinery and manpower than had originally been planned.
CHEC’s contract for the Hong Kong boundary crossing facilities will start straightaway and is expected to complete in early 2016. The work involves reclamation of 150ha at the north east of the Hong Kong International Airport for the construction of an artificial island. The project also includes construction of about 6,140m of seawall, which is mainly made up of 134 steel sheet pile cellular structure with diameters of 27m or 31m. Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong and Aecom Asia are consultants for the scheme.
