Diaphragm walls in Hong Kong

28 January 2011 - New contracts - Hong Kong

As part of the creation of the Central-Wan Chai Bypass, an underground expressway crossing the island of Hong Kong from west to east, Bachy Soletanche Group Ltd, a subsidiary of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), has been awarded a contract for the construction of 37,000 sq. metres of diaphragm walls and of ties between 1 and 1.5 metres thick. In order to enable the Hong Kong marina, where the works will be located, to continue operating, the diaphragm walls will be created working from temporary artificial islands banked up in the sea.
The project will get under way in the first quarter of 2011.