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ROADS & MOTORWAYS
Reconstruction of the road
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 Mühan 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
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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.
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