The National High Speed Rail Corporation (NHSRCL) on Thursday erected the first full span pre-stressed concrete (PSC) box girder of 40 metres span in a casting yard in Navsari district, weighing about 970 metric tonnes, as part of the construction of a viaduct for Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail corridor. A release from NHSRCL said the girder was also the heaviest in the construction industry in India.
The girder consists of 390 cubic metres of concrete and 42 MT of steel and was cast in a single piece, without any construction joints, on November 1 and erected on Thursday in presence of top officials of the project from India and Japan, the release said.
