L&T bags Rs 528-cr office construction orders from Ahmedabad, Bangalore

The company's water and renewable energy business has secured orders worth Rs 806 crore of which Rs 700 crore is for turnkey EPC of a solar photovoltaic power plant in TN

The building and factories business of engineering, construction, manufacturing and financial services conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has bagged a office building construction order at Ahmedabad and Bangalore.

According to the company, the building and factories business of L&T has bagged order worth Rs 528 crore for construction of office buildings at Ahmedabad and Bangalore "from esteemed customers".

Further, the company's water and renewable energy business has secured orders worth Rs 806 crore of which Rs 700 crore is for the turnkey EPC of a solar photovoltaic power plant in Tamil Nadu.

As per an official communique of the company, in the transportation infrastructure business, the company bagged orders worth Rs 451 crore. Order secured are for design, detail engineering, testing and commissioning of 25kV AC traction, 33 kV auxiliary sub stations, associated cabling and SCADA systems for underground corridor of line-8 of the Delhi Mass Rapid Transport System (MRTS) project - Phase 3 for Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited.

In all, L&T Construction has won new orders worth Rs 2,002 crore across various business segments in May and June 2013.

This also includes new orders in its power transmission and distribution business worth Rs 217 crore. The orders are from Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited for supply, installation, testing and commissioning of E&M fire detection and fire suppression system of elevated stations of Delhi MRTS project - Phase 3.  

Meanwhile, another order was from the West Bengal State Electricity Transmission Company Limited for supply and erection of two 132 kV D/C transmission line and substation at West Bengal.