Workers 'wrecking' at metro construction site on New Year's Eve

(Dan Tri) - Under the cold rain of 13 degrees Celsius on the night of the 28th of Tet, workers hurriedly lowered the steel frame of the final wall of the underground station S12, Nhon metro - Hanoi Railway Station.

On the night of February 7 (28th of Lunar New Year), the construction site of underground station S12 (Tran Hung Dao street) of the Nhon - Hanoi Railway Station metro line was still lit up, with the rumbling sound of machinery and about 40 workers working busily.

They include 14 engineers, 6 machine operators, 10 workers and 7 cleaners who remain at the construction site to ensure the project's progress.

The weather on Tran Hung Dao Street is currently 13 degrees Celsius. The north wind and drizzle all night make the experience of working outdoors even more harsh.

The task of the workers on the night of the 28th of Tet was to lower the last steel frame of the S12 underground station's retaining wall structure. The steel frame, weighing 24 tons and 35 meters long, was lifted up by two cranes and towed to the lowering position.

Speaking to Dan Tri reporter, Mr. Tran Lam, Deputy Head of Project Management Department 1 (Hanoi Urban Railway Project Management Board), said that underground station S12 is on the project's progress critical path. The item is on the "critical path" meaning that if it is delayed by one day, the entire project will be delayed. Currently, 2 TBM tunnel boring machines are still at underground station S9 (Kim Ma) and are waiting for stations S10, S11 and S12 to be completed. If station S12 is behind schedule, the underground drilling machine TBM may have to stop and wait at station S11, causing the entire project to stagnate.

The overtime efforts at S12 station have helped the contractor complete the installation of the last steel frame of the retaining wall structure. After the Tet holiday, they will resume work from January 2nd, install the last fiberglass frame and complete the entire retaining wall. Previously, the contractor had planned to leave 4 or 5 steel frames to continue after Tet.

According to the design, the S12 underground station will have 3 basements, of which the platform level will be located 35m below the road surface. This is the deepest station among the 4 underground stations of the metro line. The remaining underground stations will only have 2 floors, 29m deep.

Working next to a 35m deep water hole, the workers had to wear life jackets. Having worked on many infrastructure projects, they acknowledged that the safety requirements at the Nhon - Hanoi Railway Station metro line were particularly strict, partly due to the requirements of foreign contractors.

After placing the steel bars, the workers will wait until midnight on the 29th of Tet to wait for the tanker truck to come and pour the concrete.

Steel worker Hoang Ngoc Tung and about 10 of his fellow countrymen from Thai Binh are waiting to finish their work at the construction site so they can return home for Tet. They will go to the bus station on the 29th to bring home the income they saved during the last month of work of the year.

In the cold of 13 degrees Celsius on the last night of the year, the workers still kept up the pace of construction. The mud and spring rain stuck to their bodies contrasted with the image of the people in their colorful clothes pouring out of Hanoi Railway Station to return home for Tet.

The construction site guard asked for an early blooming peach blossom branch that a local resident had thrown away. He used a broken chair as a stool and a plastic vase as a vase. The Tet atmosphere was still somewhat present in the construction site, which was filled with only mud and steel.

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