The Singapore Land Transport Authority (LTA) announced yesterday that it had awarded two contracts for the Downtown Line Stage Three (DTL3) project to the China State Construction Engineering Company (CSCEC).

The contracts, C929 and C932A, totalled SGD 216.8M (USD 174.94M) and were for construction works on the Kaki Bukit (C929) and Kallang Bahru (C932A) stations.

LTA said that CSCEC had extensive experience in railway construction projects in China, though these were the company’s first MRT civils contracts in Singapore. Construction is scheduled to begin next month for completion in 2017.