Gateway Project, Singapore

Scope and Content

Gateway Project, Singapore (known as "The Gateway"): Turner (East Asia) Pte. Ltd (claimants) v. Gateway Land Pte. Ltd (respondents). Correspondence, Phase I and II Instrumentation Results files, test data including test results (Professor Ian Smith and Engineering Department, University of Manchester), graphs, diagrams, Rowe's reports, large number of assorted and numbered report documents, site investigation material, file documents, photographs, plans, copy technical papers and articles dating back to 1977 and earlier, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute Technical Reports concerning strutted excavations, 1962, and National University of Singapore student thesis, 1985, notes, jottings, sketches, calculations and analysis, background material and supporting evidence for the case going back to the early 1980s, copy legal material including Points of Claim, Instructions to Counsel, etc., publicity material, and contract and client documents including Shimizu Construction Co. Ltd tender submission document, relating to Arbitration case concerning deflexions of the existing strutted sheet pile walls of the Gateway building project at URA Land Parcel at Beach Road, Singapore. Includes letter informing Rowe that Gateway's arbitration was discontinued after the company settled with Turner out of court in May 1988, c. July 1989. Counsel: Richard Southwell QC. Includes report appendices, 1983, marked 'Confidential'.