INDIA: The SMEC India subsidiary of Australian infrastructure consultancy SMEC announced on November 14 that it had acquired Leadrail Infra Solutions, a Bangalore-based company providing railway engineering services including track, alignment, bridge and structure design.
Leadrail has worked on metro projects in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Ahmadabad and Monterrey, and rail projects for Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd, Southern Railway, South Western Railway and East Central Railway, as well as Network Rail. The company previously acted as a subconsultant for SMEC during the development of a sulphur wagon loading facility in Saudi Arabia and designing ballastless track for the Padma Multipurpose Bridge Project in Bangladesh.
