SAA receives BCA Design and Engineering Safety Award as part of project team for Orchard MRT Station

Significant works were required to transform Singapore's Orchard MRT Station into a major interchange, while ensuring the safety of commuters, and patrons and residents of ION Orchard.

For SAA's contribution to this effort, the practice was part of the project team that won the Design and Engineering Safety Award, by Singapore's Building and Construction Authority, in the Civil Engineering category.

The BCA Design & Engineering Safety Award (DESA) gives recognition to the Qualified Person for Structural Works, their firm, and the project team for ingenious design processes and solutions in overcoming project challenges to ensure safety in design, construction, and maintenance of building and civil engineering projects locally.

As architectural consultant for the project, SAA's team devised strategic design solutions to ensure direct and seamless platform links between two rail lines — the Thomson-East Coast Line and the North-South Line — via an underground subway below Orchard Boulevard, a busy road in the Orchard shopping district.

Working closely with the structural consultant and construction team, innovative structural design and construction methods were applied to the platform link's construction, with limited disruptions to traffic and operations.

Don Tan, SAA's team lead for the project, represented SAA at the award presentation ceremony on 22 October 2024.

BCA Design and Engineering Safety Award 2024
Winner of Civil Engineering Category
Contract T219 - Construction of TEL Orchard Station and A&A to NSL Orchard Station

• Qualified Person: Er. Soon Hui Lim
• Developer: Land Transport Authority
• C&S Consultant: AECOM Singapore
• Architectural Consultant: SAA Architects
• Builder: Penta-Ocean Construction Company Limited / Bachy Soletanche Singapore (Joint Venture)

Photo credit: Building and Construction Authority