Soil exams start for 13.5-km-long elevated hall alongside East Coast Street

Driving by Injambakkam on the East Coast Street (ECR) not too long ago, you may need seen barricades on the median. These are non permanent barricades positioned by the contractor setting up the ₹2,100-crore 13.5-km lengthy four-lane huge Thiruvanmiyur – Uthandi elevated hall, conducting soil exams.

The exams shall be performed over the subsequent few months at a complete of 430 factors the place pillars of the elevated hall will come up. “We’ll choose up samples of soil and see at what depth we hit totally different layers of sand, clay, delicate rock, and exhausting rock for as much as 25 meters. These shall be despatched to our design division, which is able to design the muse and different buildings based on the soil layers,” defined an engineer related to the undertaking.