***********************************************************
The Highways Department today (January 23) invited tenders for Reconstruction and Improvement of Tuen Mun Road - Sam Shing Hui Section.
Tender submissions should be placed at the Government Secretariat Tender Box in the lift lobby on the lower ground floor of the Central Government Offices (East Wing), 20 Lower Albert Road, Hong Kong. Closing date is noon on March 27.
Under the invitation to tender gazetted today, the works mainly comprise:
(i) reconstruction and re-alignment of Tuen Mun Road between Siu Lam and Sam Shing Hui to current expressway standard;
(ii) widening of traffic lanes to expressway standard width and provision of hard shoulders and verges along Tuen Mun Road;
(iii) widening of highway structures including vehicular bridges, box culverts, underpasses and subways;
(iv) replacement of the existing road restraint system with new types of parapets and roadside barriers;
(v) reconstruction of at-grade pavements;
(vi) installation of noise enclosure on Tuen Mun Road at Castle Peak Bay;
(vii) ancillary works including slope, drainage, landscaping, water and utility works, provisioning works for traffic control surveillance, fire fighting systems and modification of direction signs to current expressway standard;
(viii)routine road maintenance works.
The works are expected to begin in June 2009 for completion in March 2014.
The Major Works Project Management Office of the Highways Department has appointed Maunsell Consultants Asia Ltd. to carry out the design and to supervise the construction works.
Ends/Friday, January 23, 2009
Issued at HKT 13:24
NNNN