Draft Final Report 7.1.11 Chapter 7 Outline of Scope of Works Outside Plant Engineering Center (OPEC) Building (1) Current situation It is planned to build the OPEC centers using the sites of the existing exchange offices. (2) Necessity (Relevance) As described in the preceding Section 7.1.10, as OPEC needs space to store equipment, materials, etc. for construction and repair of outside plant facilities and staff offices and training rooms are also required, an independent building will be necessary. Space for construction will be prepared on the MPT sites. (3) Scope of upgrade As the candidate sites for each center are wasteland, land development will be necessary. The candidate sites for each center are as shown below. (a) Yangon and metro-city network OPEC candidate sites:  Mayangon Exchange Office grounds (area: approx. 38m x 34m)  Thingangyun Exchange Office grounds (area: approx. 55m x 30m) (b) Naypyitaw metro-city network OPEC candidate site  District government-owned land (area: approx. 30m x 50m) (c) Mandalay metro-city network OPEC candidate site:  Maharmying RSU Exchange Office grounds (area: approx. 34m x 41m) (4) Equipment to be introduced A tentative floor layout plan for OPEC is shown in Fig. 7.1-22. 7-38