Systra & Meinhardt won contracts for Southeast Asia's High Speed Rail project

The global leader in public transport infrastructure, Systra and the multidisciplinary engineering consultancy, Meinhardt have been awarded two RDC contracts for the HSR project connecting Malaysia to Singapore.

Both companies have won two Reference Design Consultant (RDC) contracts for the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail (HSR) project.

Systra CEO, Pierre Verzat commented: “We are proud to have been awarded these contracts. This is a very prestigious project that all the world’s major engineering companies want to work on and we are honored to have been selected. Together with our partners, we look forward to working with MyHSR Corporation to deliver this transformational project.”

The first contract includes the civil reference design works of the two international Malaysian stations: Bandar Malaysia which is located in the capital city and Iskandar Puteri in the South.

The second contract consists of civil reference design works on the first 38km section from Bandar Malaysia Station to the State Border, between Selangor and Negeri Sembilan.

Meinhardt CEO, Omar Shahzad added: “We are excited to be working with SYSTRA and other partners to undertake this iconic transportation project in Southeast Asia. This win gives a major impetus to our collaboration with SYSTRA to leverage our complementary skillsets, capabilities and local presence across the transportation sector.”

The Kuala Lumpur-Singapore HSR project is planned to link seven cities in Malaysia with Singapore as well as reduce travel times to 90 minutes between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.

The completion date is scheduled for 2026.

The project could cost between 50 billion and 60 billion ringgit.