Daewoo E&C's Singapore metro project wins 3 safety awards, logs 2,000 accident-free days

Daewoo Engineering & Construction announced Tuesday that its Singapore Cross Rail Line 108 (CR108) project won three awards in the safety category at the 2026 Annual Safety, Health and Environment Awards Convention (ASAC), hosted by Singapore's Land Transport Authority on Sept. 22.

The CR108 project involves the design and construction of a transit hub at Pasir Ris interchange station in eastern Singapore and its connecting tunnels. Daewoo Engineering & Construction and Dong-Ah Geological Engineering are jointly carrying out the project, which is scheduled for completion in December 2030.

ASAC is Singapore's Land Transport Authority's flagship awards program for safety, health and environmental performance, established in 1999. It annually recognizes contractors and projects that have contributed to safe work practices, worker welfare, and the protection of the public and the environment. This year, 90 awards were presented across 18 categories to 63 organizations that demonstrated outstanding workplace safety, health and environmental management.

At this year's ASAC, the CR108 project took home three awards: the Construction Safety Excellence Award, the Zero Accident Recognition Award and the Best Safety Improvement Contractor Award.

Chan & Chan, a subcontractor handling traffic diversion, also received the Subcontractor Safety Recognition Award. The four awards won across a single project — including those of a subcontractor — set a record for the most awards won by one project in Singapore this year.

Since construction began in 2021, the CR108 project has maintained a zero-accident record spanning 2,000 days and 8 million work hours. Central to this achievement has been the application of Daewoo Engineering & Construction's proprietary safety culture framework, CLEAR, whose core values are: Commitment to safety, Listen and Speak up among team members, Eliminate hazards, Appreciate safe behavior, and build Relationships.

The project has also pursued two-way safety communication centered on toolbox meetings, strengthened safety leadership among supervisors, focused management of high-risk tasks, and immediate action on identified site hazards.

The ASAC recognition marked a formal acknowledgment by the Land Transport Authority of the project's efforts to improve safety culture on site. "From the very start of construction, the CR108 project has made establishing a site-centered safety culture and preventing serious accidents its top priority, pursuing systematic health, safety and environmental management activities," a Daewoo Engineering & Construction official said. "We plan to continue driving fundamental improvements in risk factors through technological innovation and the sustained embedding of CLEAR."

Meanwhile, since Chief Executive Lee Kang-seok took office Friday, Daewoo Engineering & Construction has set a course to actively develop future growth areas — including AI infrastructure, data centers and robotics — and strengthen its competitiveness in global markets.