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PROJECT ALERTS
Project updates courtesy of Leads 2 Business.
Procedural
Infrastructure- Road
KwaZulu-Natal
SANRAL has announced that communities have been consulted on the issue of compensation regarding the development of the R9-billion N2 Wild Coast Road, which will extend from East London via Mthatha, Port St Johns, and Lusikisiki to the Mtanvuna River near Port Edward. In certain cases, compensation had not yet been paid as the legal contracts have not yet been concluded. In an article in GroundUp, SANRAL referred to people who want compensation for the reburial of graves. Consultation took place with traditional leaders, public meetings, and affected families, and notices were distributed locally and also in the local newspaper.“ As a grave does not constitute an improvement, SANRAL cannot pay families for their graves. However, SANRAL does cover all the costs involved for the exhumation and reburial in a new location to the satisfaction of the family.” SANRAL is committed to delivering this key project fairly and in compliance with all relevant legislation, regulations, and conditions.
Tender
Infrastructure- Water, Institutional
Rustenburg, North West Province
The Rustenburg Local Municipality has invited tenders for the management, operation, and maintenance of water and wastewater treatment facilities and associated bulk infrastructure for a three-year contract. Rustenburg, via its booming platinum mining industry, is one of the fastest growing cities in South Africa and has enjoyed a significant growth in total population from 311 787 in 1996 to 626 522 in 2016. The city experienced an annual population growth rate of 3.6 % between 2001 and 2011. The window for tender closed on 30 May 2018, with tenderers required to have a CIBD contractor grading of 9CE. Stage: 1. Compliance and responsiveness, Stage: 2. Functionality, and Stage: 3. 90 / 10 tenderers are eligible to submit tenders.
Design
Infrastructure- Private, Civils
Morocco
Construction is underway of a USD375-million mega development project in Rabat, Morocco, known as the Rabat Tower. The tower will be a 250m-tall skyscraper, the tallest high-rise tower in Africa— that is, until the completion of Kenya’ s 300m-tall The Pinnacle building— and will put it ahead of South Africa’ s 223m Carlton Centre. The total designed floor space is 86 000m ². Rabat Tower will be a 45-storey tower, which adopts ecological and sustainable design concepts and will include offices, hotels, and luxury apartments. The Rabat Tower construction contract, a BMCE
Conceptual
Consultants- Institutional, Energy
Uganda
The Ugandan government is set to construct five renewable energy plants in the districts of Arua, Jinja, Mbale, Mbarara, and Masaka. The waste-toenergy plants are expected to increase access to energy and will operate using human waste to generate 2.9MW as a public private partnership, with timing from 2019 onwards. The construction of the project will take place in a space of two years under three phases; thereafter, the private sector will be encouraged to invest. The government has received USD3.2-million from Global Enforcement Facility for the projects and government expects to raise an additional USD14- million to kick-start construction in the next financial year through co-financing. The plants will supplement the available energy and simultaneously reduce greenhouse emission, increase energy security, and create employment. The objective of waste-to-energy plants is that if waste is not managed well, it will cause global warming and the destruction of lives through the emission of greenhouse gases such as carbon oxide.
Bank of Africa project, signed in 2016, covers a 36-month period and is ongoing. Morocco’ s leading construction company Travaux Generaux de Construction de Casablanca( 40 % of the contract), in conjunction with China Railway Construction Corp( 60 %), is doing the construction after the consortia won the bid. The building will be the focal point of a large-scale project to develop the capital’ s Bouregreg Valley, a key component of the 2014 – 2018 integrated development programme dubbed‘ Rabat, City of Light, Moroccan Cultural Capital’.