01. Civil that respects the electrical
Cable trough alignments, conduit bend radii, and earthing arrangements all feed civil layout before the slab is poured. We work to the electrical engineer's drawings, not against them.
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Infrastructure
Power transfer, cable systems and port infrastructure.
Cable trough, culverts, port civils. USD 4.5 M delivered at Port City.
- USD 4.5 M
- Port City Phase 1 contract
- Tellhow JV
- Infrastructure lead partner
- CEC
- Resident engineering supervision
- Reclaimed
- Ground-condition expertise
Overview
What this discipline looks like at AMSK.
Infrastructure as a discipline at AMSK means everything that civil and electrical share: cable troughs that protect HV and MV networks, conduit banks that route data and telecoms, metal culverts that get water under a road or platform, retaining walls that hold a reclaimed grade.
Colombo Port City Phase 1 brought all of this together. AMSK installed cable trough networks and metal culverts across the new infrastructure footprint, operating under Tellhow International (the China-funded lead contractor) with CEC (Construction Engineering Corporation of Sri Lanka) providing supervision. The contract value exceeded USD 4.5 million, executed on a working port site where logistics, lift planning, and tide-window coordination were daily realities.
Beyond Port City, our infrastructure capability extends to substation civil works, telecoms duct banks, ground-mount solar PV foundations, and integrated landscape + utility schemes for institutional clients. The common thread: civil works that have to host live electrical or data systems, executed to specifications that are sensitive to settlement, drainage and EMI shielding.
Our approach
Four principles, applied to every contract.
How we structure a infrastructure programme from first survey to defects liability handover.
02. Survey, then settle
Infrastructure on reclaimed or made ground gets surveyed to high precision and pre-loaded where settlement is expected. Cable troughs don't tolerate differential settlement; we plan for it.
03. Port discipline
Working on Port City taught us tide windows, lift permits, ISPS-compliant access, and the value of pre-mobilising. We bring that discipline to every coastal or port-side project now.
04. Test, document, hand over
Continuity tests, pull tests, and as-built drawings are produced in the same week the works are signed off. The electrical contractor receives infrastructure that's ready to terminate, not ready to redo.
Standards we work to
The specifications, codes and quality regimes behind every delivery.
- IEC electrical-civil interface standards (where applicable)
- CEB substation civil works specifications
- ICTAD specifications for retaining structures
- ISO 9001:2015 / 14001:2015 / OHSAS 18001:2007
Selected projects
What we've built in infrastructure.
Infrastructure