Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation will largely complete a new station on the Tung Chung line by the first half of 2027, using “community-friendly” construction measures to reduce noise.

The rail giant said on Tuesday that it would finish boring a 1.3-kilometre (0.8-mile) tunnel by the third quarter of this year and complete most of Tung Chung West station by the first half of next year.

The new station is located west of Yat Tung Estate, a public housing estate in Western Tung Chung.

The company said it was using different construction methods to reduce noise.

Lee Ka-leung, the corporation’s head of project delivery for Lantau, said the station followed a “top-down construction” method, meaning the ground-level roof slab of the building was being built first to contain noise and dust.

Lee explained that the method allowed underground excavation and above-ground work to proceed simultaneously, increasing efficiency.

This was also the first time the corporation was rotating the boring machine underground rather than extracting and repositioning it on the ground surface, he added.