The Dubai Metro Project
General
The project is for the design and build of two lines: the Red Line and the Green Line with 45 stations over 75 km. The Red Line further contains Airport Terminal 1 and Airport Terminal 3 stations that are not within the scope of this project. There are four types of overground stations depending on location. The interior design of all stations is based on one of the four elements: earth, fire, air and water. There are two stations with a special heritage design located at Al Ras (Heritage Water) and at Al Ghubaiba (Heritage Earth).
Manpower
The peak of the manpower was in April 2009 at 35,591 people. This includes direct and subcontractor labourers, staff, engineers and management. Over 43 nationalities were employed at the time including: American, Australian, Bangladeshi, British, Canadian, Chinese, Egyptian, Emirati, Filipino, French, German, Greek, Hong Kong – Chinese, Indian, Indonesian, Iranian, Iraqi, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Jordanian, Lao, Lebanese, Malaysian, Myanmarese, Nepali, New Zealander, Nigerian, Omani, Pakistani, Palestinian, Papua New Guinean, Polish, Singaporean, South African, South Korean, Sri Lankan, Sudanese, Syrian, Taiwanese, Thai, Turkish and Yemeni.
At final completion of the project, a total of 285,865,243 man hours were worked. The safety record stands proudly with an overall accident frequency rate (AFR) of 0.83 against the set target key performance indicator of less than 1 for the project.
Material used
A total of 2,580,000 m3 of concrete and 475,000 tons of rebar were used on the Red and Green lines.
Viaducts
Total length
Feb 2007 - May 2009
61.5 km
Elevated 58.0 km 1,792 spans
1,402 using 9 launching girders
212 spans by ground support system
72 spans by balanced cantilever method
106 spans by cast in-situ method
At grade
Weight
Tunnels data confirmation
Total length
Rings
Weight
3.5 km 134 panels by cast in-situ method
55.3 ton Standard type; ISO span field segment
89.7 ton Heavy type; 3-span bridge pier segment
Jan 2007 - Dec 2008
13.6 km 2.3 km Cut & cover
1.6 km Stations
9.7 km Tunnels
6,452 51,616 segments, 8 segments per ring
1.9 ton Small key-segment, 1 per ring
5.7 ton Large segment, 7 per ring
Tunnel internal diameter 8.50 m
Tunnel external diameter 9.30 m
Used TBM 3 Nos
TBM diameter 9.56 m
TBM cutterhead rotation 0.86 - 1.82 rpm
Weight of TBM system 940 ton
TBM launching/arrival 10 times
TBM assembling/disassembling 6 times
Stations
Number of stations
Total floor area
Largest station
Deepest station
Highest station
Material supply
External finishing
Internal finishing
45 25 Red Line
18 Green Line
2 intersecting stations (Union and Khalid Bin Al Waleed)
399,000 m2
26,040.34 m2 (Union station, area includes entrance)
27.75 m (Khalid Bin Al Waleed station; to the bottom of the foundation slab)
29.549 m (Emirates station, height to the top of the roof)
Reconstituted stone from Italy, Iran, Korea, Oman
Inner roof lining from Germany, China
Glazed & metal cladding from China, Dubai, Lebanon
Miscellaneous metal & glass from Dubai, Malaysia, China
Vitreous enamel panels from Germany
Steel doors from Dubai, Germany, Saudi Arabia
Automatic doors from Germany
Smoke curtains from the United Kingdom
External envelopes from China
Golden aluminium roof cladding with sky lights
Glass curtain wall
Aluminium panels and louvers
Reconstituted stone flooring
Glass, metal and stone wall cladding
Glass and metal ceiling cladding
Aluminium (wood effect) inner roof lining
Trains data confirmation
Cars per train
Maximal operating speed
Train power supply
90 km/hr
Maximal axle load 14 ton
750 volts DC and third rail
Track gauge 1.435 m
Minimum curve radius in main line 250 m
Minimum curve radius in depot line 140 m
Maximum gradient of the track 4%
Maximum wind velocity in operation 15 km/hr (32 mls)
Tracks
Length including depot
184,895 m
Total weight 20,254 ton
Power rail lengths including depot 178,928 m
Number of turn-outs
169 sets
Number of buffer-stops 61 sets
Number of fasteners 528,272 sets
Power supply
Main power substations
3 substations
Main traction power substations 37 substations
Primary cabinet rooms 18 rooms
Switchrooms 2 rooms
Length of installed main power cables 1,059 km
Installed power capacity 480 MVA
5 (1 car has both a Gold Class and a Women & Children section; 4 cars are Silver Class)
Automatic Train Control Systems
Vehicle
Vehicle
Switch
Communication Systems
Operation
Platform Screen Doors
Motorised
Automatic Fare Collection System
Automatic
Emirates Towers
Completed stations stretching along Sheikh Zayed Road in front of the famous Emirates Towers.
