The platform canopy at the former Tanjong Pagar Railway Station was previously cut up to make way for Circle Line works.
The reinstatement works, which include building new platforms and reinstalling rainwater pipes, are slated to run till 2025. Since the project began in 2017, about 70 per cent of the relocation, restoration and reinstatement works have been completed, the Land Transport Authority told The Straits Times on March 12.
The panel, like all others, was moved using two self-propelled modular transporters – equipment typically used at construction sites to lift heavy loads. Each panel is about 9m wide, 13m long and 6m tall. Works included washing the surfaces of the panels, as well as patching up cracks and replacing corroded parts.
Any discrepancies would cause disproportionately more displacement when the other panels are reinstated, he said. To ensure that old and new concrete can coexist and not develop cracks – especially at points where they meet, Mr Ho said, care is taken to ensure that the concrete used for the “stitches” is similar in strength to that used for the construction of the canopies.
The fascia – a vertical panel at the roof’s edge – was not pre-cast and could not easily be detached, meaning that work on the fascia could be done only directly on each panel.
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