GAMUDA BERHAD

GAMUDA BERHAD stands as one of Malaysia’s most influential engineering institutions — a company whose works define how cities move, connect, and endure.

Founded in 1976, the Group has evolved from a local engineering firm into an internationally recognised infrastructure and property powerhouse, delivering some of Malaysia’s most transformative projects across transportation, tunnelling, water management, and urban development. From expressways and rail systems to integrated townships and international mega infrastructure projects, Gamuda has become deeply embedded in the physical evolution of modern Malaysia.

Today, the company is recognised not merely as a contractor, but as a builder of systems — designing infrastructure that shapes mobility, urban expansion, economic growth, and the rhythm of daily life itself. Its capabilities in tunnelling and rail engineering have positioned Malaysia on the global infrastructure map, while its township developments continue redefining integrated urban living.

Its journey reflects a powerful truth — that infrastructure is not built only for the present generation, but designed to carry the future forward.

Founder:

Koon Yew Yin

Dato’ Lin Yun Ling

Current Leadership:

Group Managing Director & CEO: Dato’ Lin Yun Ling

The leadership continues to guide the Group with a focus on engineering excellence, technological innovation, sustainable urban development, and long-term international expansion.

Some companies are built on resources — GAMUDA was built on engineering belief.

In 1976, two engineers, Koon Yew Yin and Lin Yun Ling, founded the company during a period when Malaysia was still rapidly developing its national infrastructure and industrial capabilities. What they possessed was not extraordinary capital, but technical confidence — a belief that Malaysian engineering expertise could stand alongside the best in the world.

The company’s early years were shaped by discipline, technical execution, and persistence. Starting with smaller engineering and construction projects, Gamuda steadily built a reputation for reliability and problem-solving capability. Every completed project strengthened industry confidence in the company’s ability to manage increasingly complex assignments.

But Gamuda’s true transformation came when it began embracing projects many considered too ambitious. Instead of remaining within conventional construction boundaries, the company pursued infrastructure works requiring advanced engineering solutions — highways, large-scale water systems, rail infrastructure, and underground tunnelling.

One of the most defining moments in the company’s history emerged through the SMART Tunnel project in Kuala Lumpur — a globally recognised engineering achievement that combined stormwater management with urban traffic infrastructure in a single dual-purpose tunnel system. At the time, the project represented one of the world’s most innovative engineering solutions to urban flooding and congestion. Its successful execution elevated not only Gamuda’s standing, but also Malaysia’s engineering reputation internationally.

The company later became a central force behind the Klang Valley MRT system — one of the largest urban transportation projects in Malaysian history. Through complex tunnelling works, elevated rail construction, and integrated transport infrastructure, Gamuda helped reshape how millions of Malaysians move through the capital city every day.

What distinguished Gamuda was not only technical execution, but vision. The company recognised that infrastructure and urban development were deeply interconnected. This led to the expansion of Gamuda Land, the Group’s property development arm, which focused on integrated township developments designed around sustainability, livability, and long-term community planning.

As Malaysia matured, so did Gamuda’s ambitions. The company expanded into international markets including Taiwan, Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, and the United Kingdom — exporting Malaysian engineering expertise onto the global stage. Large-scale tunnelling, rail, and infrastructure projects abroad reinforced its identity as a world-class engineering group capable of competing internationally.

From a modest engineering company founded by two determined professionals to a globally recognised infrastructure powerhouse, Gamuda’s journey reflects a powerful truth — that nations are not transformed by buildings alone, but by the systems that connect them.

Core Activities:

• Engineering, procurement, and construction of infrastructure

• Rail, tunnelling, and urban transportation systems

• Property development and integrated township creation

• Infrastructure concessions and long-term asset ownership

• International infrastructure and engineering projects

The Group focuses on combining engineering expertise with long-term infrastructure development and sustainable urban planning across regional and global markets.

Notable Offerings Include:

• SMART Tunnel — the world’s first dual-purpose stormwater and motorway tunnel

• Klang Valley MRT Kajang and Putrajaya Lines

• Electrified Double Track railway infrastructure projects

• Gamuda Land integrated township developments

• Advanced tunnelling and underground engineering solutions

These offerings position Gamuda as one of Southeast Asia’s leading infrastructure and engineering groups.

1976 — Establishment of GAMUDA BERHAD

1990s — Expansion into major infrastructure and highway projects

2003–2007 — Construction of SMART Tunnel, a global engineering milestone

2011–2017 — Delivery of MRT Kajang Line, Malaysia’s first MRT system

2015–2023 — Completion of MRT Putrajaya Line enhancing national connectivity

2010s–2020s — Expansion into international rail, tunnelling, and infrastructure markets

2020s — Continued growth in sustainable township and smart city developments

GAMUDA BERHAD has contributed significantly to Malaysia’s infrastructure and urban development landscape by delivering transformative engineering solutions that improved connectivity, mobility, and flood management across the nation.

The company played a defining role in modernising Kuala Lumpur’s transportation ecosystem through the MRT network, helping reduce congestion while enabling more efficient urban mobility for millions of commuters. Through projects such as the SMART Tunnel, Gamuda also demonstrated how engineering innovation could solve multiple urban challenges simultaneously — combining flood mitigation and transportation infrastructure into a globally recognised system.

Beyond transportation, the Group contributed to the advancement of tunnelling technologies, rail engineering capabilities, and integrated urban development expertise within Malaysia. Its international expansion further elevated Malaysian engineering credibility, proving that local expertise could compete successfully in some of the world’s most technically demanding infrastructure markets.

In property development, Gamuda helped redefine township planning by integrating sustainability, environmental design, community spaces, and long-term livability into large-scale developments — shaping not only physical structures, but urban lifestyles themselves.

Through decades of execution, the company evolved into more than a builder of projects. It became a builder of systems that support economic growth, social mobility, and national progress.

Some companies construct projects — GAMUDA BERHAD constructs the systems that carry nations forward.

From underground tunnels beneath crowded cities to rail networks connecting millions of lives, its legacy is not merely written in steel, concrete, and machinery, but in movement itself — in how people travel, work, connect, and grow.

Its journey stands as a testament to how engineering, when guided by vision and courage, becomes far more than construction. It becomes nation-building.

And through every highway, rail line, tunnel, and township it leaves behind, Gamuda continues to prove a timeless truth — that the strongest infrastructure is not measured only by what it supports today, but by the future it enables tomorrow.