Larsen & Toubro has bagged a turnkey order for construction of a power substation in Saudi Arabia, the engineering conglomerate said in a release.
L&T said that the scope of the gas insulated switchgear (GIS) substation involves four different voltages up to 380kV. The scope of works entails associated control, protection, automation, telecommunication systems, apart from civil and electromechanical works.
The order will be executed by the power transmission & distribution (PTD) business of L&T Construction — the construction-related arm of Larsen & Toubro Ltd.
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Smart city in UP
L&T also said that the Smart World & Communication business has bagged a Smart City project. The project has been awarded by the Moradabad Smart City Ltd to design, develop, implement, and manage the O&M (operations & maintenance) of a Command-and-Control Centre (CCC), CCTV Surveillance, Smart Traffic Solutions, and to integrate various ICT components with an Integrated Command and Control Center Platform (ICCC) for Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh.
The vision of this project is to establish an Integrated Command and Control Center Smart City Platform/applications to monitor and operate Smart City services terminating onto these applications. The scope of work includes intelligent traffic control system with traffic enforcement, adaptive traffic control system, city surveillance system with video analytics, citizen web portal, a mobile app and helpdesk, smart parking management solution etc.
Note: L&T has not specified the value of the contracts. However, the total value of three orders is in the range of Rs.1,000 crore to Rs.2,500 crore. The third order, not discussed in this story, relates to multilevel car parking and other facilities for High Court of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. (Featured photograph is for representation only).
