On Saturday 24 January 2009, we held our first ever site visit to the new Buona Vista Station on the future Circle Line, MRT. The event was hosted by Nirhbik Sengupta (Construction Manager) and Singhal Vivek (Project Director) of Alpine Bau Gmbh (Singapore Branch), one of the parties in the JV responsible for the civil works contract for stages 4 and 5 of the Circle Line.

The morning commenced with a review of the scope of the contract which includes the construction and completion of Holland, Buona Vista and NUH Stations, including fit out works and tunnels for One-North Station. It was particularly interesting to learn about the technical difficulties encountered in the construction because of restricted access and the methods that had been employed to overcome these problems.

The attendees were then escorted on a tour of the site to see the tunnel entrance at Buona Vista Circle Line Station viewed from the unique location of the foundation level of the future rail track.