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Technital SpA

Roads & Motorways - Muhan - El Rama - Nicaragua

Client:	Ministerio de Transporte e Infraestructura � Managua. Financing - World Bank.
Services:	Detailed design, tender documents and construction supervision
Period:	1999-2002
Construction cost:	� 30,000,000

The Project:

The contract awarded to TECHNITAL concerns the rehabilitation of the 90.3 km section of the Managua-El Rama road between M�han and El Rama, including 14 bridges and 342 culverts, with a design speed of 70 km/h.

The state of the existing road was extremely poor : the road paving is ruined and for some 50 km virtually non-existent, the bridges are totally inadequate for present and future traffic, the culverts are in appalling condition due to lack of maintenance and insufficient capacity and there are scarcely any road signs.

The project includes :

adaptation of the horizontal /vertical alignment to the new design speed
widening of the road crown from 7 to 9 m
renewal of the paving to cope with the traffic foreseen in 2015
upgrading or replacement of the culverts
reinforcing and upgrading of the bridges
guarantee of an adequate safety level by the introduction of vertical and horizontal road signs and metal barriers
measures to mitigate the environmental impact
elimination of the critical points of the alignment by slope protection
lateral ditches and culverts, etc.

Technital carried out the project in association with Sotecni SpA of Rome. As the leading company Technital�s share amounts to 40% of the total contract value.