Tritech wins cavern feasibility study tender
It beats 2 firms to clinch the $1.77m award from JTC
NEWLY listed Tritech Group has won the tender to study possible economic uses for Singapore’s underground rock caverns (URCs), which could range from power stations and wafer fabs to research and development labs, airport logistics centres and water reclamation facilities.
BT has learnt that Tritech, just listed on the Catalist board, beat two geological engineering specialist groups - Geostock and Amberg & TTI Engineering - to clinch the $1.77 million study award from JTC Corporation, which is the coordinating government agency for the project.
Tritech, which specialises in geotechnical, ground and structural engineering, has to work with various state agencies because of the many possible uses for the caverns.
For instance, it will work with the Energy Market Authority on power stations, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore on airport logistics and the Public Utilities Board on water reclamation facilities.
JTC, which called for tenders in May from firms with URC experience and expertise, awarded the contract to Tritech last week. ‘Timelines for the study will now be discussed with Tritech,’ a JTC spokeswoman told BT.
Tritech will have to identify and study URC use in other countries and examine the technical and operational feasibility of such uses here. It will also have to look at issues including environment, health, public reaction on matters like radiation and pollution, harmful airborne particles and damage to existing buildings or infrastructure.
Because of land constraints, Singapore has so far used URCs for munitions storage. And JTC has started work on the first phase of the $700 million Jurong Rock Cavern (JRC) beneath Jurong Island to store crude and oil products
In the same vein, it is looking at building offshore platforms for oil terminals, desalination plants and container terminals
Tritech will get a boost from the URC tender. Engineering services have so far contributed 61 per cent of its revenue. It has played a role in the MRT Circle and Downtown lines as well as the JRC
Source : Business Times - 26 Aug 2008
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