Kochi metro rail’s first concrete girder was installed over the pier caps at Pulinchodu near Aluva in the early hours of Saturday.
The girder was brought to the site from the manufacturing centre at Kalamassery aboard huge trailers by Friday 10 p.m. The two ends of the girder were elevated using cranes and placed over the pier caps.
The girder is 25-metre long and 5.2-metre wide and weighs about 160 tonnes. It took almost three hours to complete the installation of the girder.