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Singapore,
full speed
ahead
Singapore is a 700 km2 city-state which is
south of the Malaysian peninsula, to which
it is connected by means of two large brid-
ges. It is known for its strict domestic laws
and regulations. A former British colony,
Singapore currently represents a strategic
international growth opportunity for the
FCC subsidiary thanks to its situation bet-
ween emerging countries where demand
for infrastructures in growing.
Since the Government of Singapore laun-
ched its Mass Transport System (MRT) pro-
gram in 1982, several railways, viaducts,
and underground projects have been built,
many by foreign companies. Thirty years la-
Southeast Asia, a growing market
Communities
ter, ALPINE is involved in the planning and
construction of one of the main Singapo-
re underground lines, the Downtown Line
which provides services to two million users
each day and which is expected to be com-
pleted by 2017.
Nine years in Southeast Asia
ALPINE first landed in the island in 2003 to
develop, as a partner in a joint-venture, the
C852 and C855 of Singapore’s circular un-
derground line. Several other projects have
come after this, including new sections of
the line and stations in a project that has
been growing and which now employees
136 workers from 17 countries, led by Die-
ter Meyer, the manager of Phase 2 of the
Singapore’s new Downtown Line. Aged 59,
Dieter’s experience in front of several inter-
national projects, such as the New Delhi
underground or the Pinglu tunnel in China
is brilliant.
Since the project was first awarded in 2009,
Dieter Meyer has been in charge of the
planning and construction of the C917 and
Dieter Meyer,
project
manager
Dieter Meyer is 59 years old and has a
long career as project manager. He arri-
ved in Singapore two years ago thanks
to his experience at Alpine in tunnel
construction. Since then, he heads
team of 136 employees of different na-
tionalities in FCC’s largest project in Asia
through its subsidiary ALPINE.
Having a team of workers from 17 diffe-
rent nationalities that he had to coordi-
nate and motivate, despite the cultural
and religious differences, was one of his
personal challenges. Creating a work
team in Singapore is not always easy
since qualified labour is scarce in Sin-