21 May 2023 - The beginning of hoarding along Clementi Road. 21 May 2023 - Hoarding along Clementi Road. Recently if you've travelled along Clementi Road, especially around the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) / Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) stretch, you may have noticed green hoarding along the boundary of the road. Ever wondered what the hoarding is for? Could it be that works for the Cross Island Line (CRL) phase 2 are already beginning? Find out more after the jump. The hoarding along the southbound carriageway of Clementi Road begins after ..read more

  Information on Punggol CPE station by Minister Janil Puthucheary New posts from Minister Janil Putucheary, MP for the Punggol area, indicate that works for Punggol station on the Cross Island Line - Punggol Extension (CPE) are due to begin this month. Work will commence for setting up the contract P105 site office and CPE Project Information Centre (PIC) that will be located next to My First Skool some time this month. Next month, hoarding will go up for several sites along Punggol Central as well. The team took an opportunity to visit the area before construction began to cap ..read more

  30 March 2023 Under contract CR106, a section of Loyang Avenue between Pasir Ris Drive 3 and Loyang Way was closed on 26 February 2023 to facilitate the construction of Loyang Cross Island Line (CRL) station and a vehicular viaduct on top. Since the closure in late February 2023, the work site has been cleared of trees and heavy equipment had moved in. Part of the existing roadway was converted into a transit priority corridor for buses. A pair of bus stops remains to serve residents at Loyang Valley condominium. Before approaching the main work site, the transit priority corr ..read more

  30 March 2023 Our last update for Pasir Ris East station under contract CR107 was at the end of 2022. We made a visit right at the end of Q1 2023 and are ready to present to you an update of the site. Since the road closure of a stretch of Pasir Ris Drive 1 between Pasir Ris Drives 2 and 4, work has taken over the former roadway.  Various activities are taking place along the entire stretch with the arrival of hydrofraise frames and a clam shell grabber machine to facilitate diaphragm wall works. There do not appear to be betonite slurry silos or a treatment plant on site ..read more

  30 March 2023 After the update on Bright Hill in the west, we swing back to the east with a whopping update on Pasir Ris. Works are in full swing with diaphragm walling works commencing in the west and soon to commence in the east of the site as well. Road diversions have been completed and an upcoming long-term road closure is in the works. EWL Station - Concourse level (Public area)Modification works to the concourse level of the existing East-West Line (EWL) station are finishing up at the public area where newly remodeled shops created. The former shops at the area had to ..read more

  30 March 2023 We begin swinging to the eastern end of the Cross Island Line (CRL) phase 1, starting at Tampines North. The site has since been cleared and diaphragm wall works have commenced at the northern end of the station. Meanwhile other preparatory works are still going on further south in the station box. 30 March 2023 - A view of the station site from the south. 30 March 2023 - A close up view of the heavy machinery towards the middle of the station box. 30 March 2023 - On the left is an auger machine and to the right is a soil mixer to improve ..read more

  19 March 2023 - An overview of the construction site of the station. Teck Ghee was the first station whose civil contract was awarded under contract N109A, which was bundled together with construction works for the North-South Expressway project. The expressway tunnels will eventually sit on top of the station's roof slab, with the concourse & platform located below. We checked out how things were progressing at the contract N109A site mid-March. 19 March 2023 - A view of capping beam being constructed at the top of the secant bored pile wall. 19 March 202 ..read more

  19 March 2023 On 19th March, the team took some time to visit a few of the Cross Island Line (CRL) phase 1 sites to check in on how the sites have progressed. Similar to the updates on the Thomson-East Coast Line (TEL) stages 4 and 5, we hope to do the same for the CRL 1 stations. We've kicked it off with some updates on Hougang and contract CR115's launch shaft, so here's an update for Ang Mo Kio. The station is located linearly along Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3, with some ventilation buildings expected to be located on the side of the town garden, near the police post. Several addit ..read more

  February 2023 Recently the tunnel boring machine (TBM) for contract CR105 underwent its factory acceptance test (FAT). The FAT is where the client, in this case Taisei Corporation - China State Engineering Corporation Joint Venture, goes to the manufacturing factory to see that the machine meets their expectations after production has completed. A series of tests are conducted to ensure that all is in order before the machine is disassembled for delivery to the client's project site. February 2023 The TBM for contract CR105 is a large diameter TBM measuring 12.66m ac ..read more

  19 March 2023 - A view southwards from across Hougang Avenue 10. It's been a while since we've had an update on the Cross Island Line (CRL), so we're at Hougang this week to kick things off. Work at the northern half (the closed section of Hougang Central Minor) is more advanced than that at the southern half (near existing Exit A, next to the bus interchange) of the site. 19 March 2023 - A view of the site along Hougang Avenue 10. A future exit will be sited here. Northern site - Bounded by Hougang Avenue 10 & Hougang Central (Major) Diaphragm walling works are ..read more