U-girder erection work started on Kanpur Metro's Baradevi-Naubasta elevated stretch

Kanpur, India (Metro Rail Today): The engineers of JMC Projects Ltd have commenced U-girder erection work on 5.5 km long Baradevi-Naubasta elevated section of corridor-1 (IIT-Naubasta) of Kanpur Metro Rail Project. On the intervening night of January 20, 2023 and January 21, 2023, the first U-girder of this section was erected on pillar number-56 and 57 in Kidwai Nagar area. A total of 346 U-girders are to be erected in this section, with an average length of about 28 meters and a weight of about 168 metric tonnes.

Congratulating the team of metro engineers on this occasion, Managing Director of Uttar Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (UPMRC) Sushil Kumar said, “The progress of civil construction work in Kanpur Metro is commendable. After commencing the Metro operation from IIT to Motijheel on time, we now aim to complete the construction work on the balance section of the first corridor (Chunniganj-Naubasta) on time.”

The construction works in the Baradevi-Naubasta elevated section had started from 8th August, 2022 and the first pier cap was erected in this section on 27th December 2022. This section, being built with 5 elevated metro stations, will have a total of 276 piers (pillars), out of which 166 piers will be for the viaduct, on which the pier caps will be erected and about 110 piers will provide the base for construction of metro stations. So far 18 piers have been completed in this section and pier caps have been erected on 5 piers.

In metro infrastructure, piers are built at the construction site, while pier caps and girders are precast and pre-tensioned at the casting yard and then erected at designated locations in the corridor with the help of cranes.

In June last year, UPMRC has awarded a contract worth Rs 514.61 crore to JMC Projects (India) Ltd for design and construction of 5.5 km long elevated viaduct on the eastern-end of Corridor-1 with 5 metro stations at Baradevi, Kidwai Nagar, Vasant Vihar, Baudh Nagar and Naubasta.