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Gamuda Berhad
(29579-T)
• annual report 2014
Community
The main programmes that help achieve the dual
role of uplifting our community and reinforcing our
talent development strategy, besides the Gamuda
Scholarship Award, the SL1M-Gamuda, and the
internship programmes, are:
• Tunnelling Training Academy (TTA)
TTA is an offset programme for the KVMRT project,
consistent with the Government’s aspirations to
transformMalaysia into a high income knowledge-
based economy by the year 2020.
Besides serving as a valuable training ground
for young Malaysians to pursue a rewarding
career in the internationally high demand field of
tunnelling, one of TTA’s founding objectives is to
train a sustainable pool of Malaysian specialists,
technicians and skilled labour to support the
rollout of the KVMRT, and similar projects around
the world.
Based
in
Kota
Kemuning,
the
first-in-the-world tunnelling academy, built with
an initial investment of RM10 million, bears
testament to Gamuda’s accumulated expertise
from projects that involved tunnelling, such as the
Electrified Double Track Project (Ipoh – Padang
Besar),StormwaterManagementandRoadTunnel
(SMART), Kaohsiung Metropolitan Mass Rapid
Transit (KMRT), and the Western Kuala Lumpur
Traffic Dispersal Scheme (SPRINT Expressway).
Today, TTA is on track to train
up to 1,000 professional and
skilled tunnelling workers by
the year 2015. To-date, the
academy has trained a total
of 518 tunnelling personnel,
including the first batch of 10
engineers from the Delhi Metro
Rail Corporation (DMRC).
Some of the training facilities
available at TTA include an
actual size tunnel boring
machine
cutting
wheel,
shotcrete mould, testing unit
for annular gap filling and
grouting, testing unit for foam
production, erector simulator,
lab equipment, and safety
gears.
TTA currently offers a total of
19 training modules covering
Technical, Skill and Specialist
training. Moving forward, new
courses, such as the Tunnel
Boring Machine Operator
module, are being developed
and are expected to be rolled
out by end 2014.
As part of our community
enrichment initiative,
we believe in giving our
future generation of young
Malaysians a shot at achieving
their fullest potential through
education and training.
TTA has achieved a milestone when it opened its doors to train engineers from Delhi Metro Rail
Corporation Limited (DMRC). It is an international recognition for the critical and high demand skill
training offered by the academy.