| Client: |
Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality |
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| Funder: |
Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality
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| Project
Location: |
Tshwane - Akasia |
| Project
Value: |
R1,5 million |
| Services: |
Planning, design and construction
monitoring |
| Project
Period: |
June 2000 to June 2001 |
| Infraburo (Pty) Ltd was appointed in
June 2000 by the Greater Pretoria Metropolitan Council (currently
Tshwane Metopolitan Municipality) as the Consulting- Design and
Construction supervision Engineers for the re-alignment of a portion
of Daan de Wet Nel Drive. |
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The existing alignment of the class
3 road (district distributor) had to be re-aligned to eliminate
the existing staggered intersection and replace it with a normal
4-way intersection (with broadened entry and exit lanes where required)
controlled by a signal plan and traffic lights. |
| The construction approach adopted by the professional
team was to appoint a Joint Venture (JV) Contractor comprising of
an emerging contractor assisted by a conventional contractor responsible
for the provision of plant and construction management services
where required. The premise of the approach extended to the principles
of the RDP to enable the emerging partner of the JV to develop,
gain experience and become established as a conventional contractor. |
| The project was completed in the
midst of very challenging circumstances. The existing alignment
remained functional throughout construction, bulk water supply and
storm water drainage systems were accommodated and incorporated
into the execution of the project, and a signal controlled 4-way
intersection has been implemented to control traffic from and to
the industrial focal point at the nearby Rosslyn industrial area.
The principal labour component (excluding specialist sub-contractors)
utilized was manual labour-intensive construction methods. An estimated
15 000 man-hours was invested by the emerging contractor with an
associated R 100 000,00 distributed to the labour force. |
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Construction items such as kerbing, pedestrian pathways, median island
aprons and storm water pipelines and canals were constructed exclusively
by labour intensive methods.
In summary, the project stimulated tremendous economic growth in the
area, created much-needed job opportunities and provided the Tshwane
Metropolitan Municipality with an improved asset in terms of infrastructure
and service delivery.
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