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PROJECT
ALERTS
Project updates courtesy of Leads 2 Business.
Conceptual Design
Social infrastructure Industrial infrastructure
Zimbabwe Mozambique
City of Harare has revealed plans to build a small football
stadium, the High Glen Stadium, in the High Glen suburb
of the capital city. In preparation, since 2015 the City
has demolished approximately 500 houses in the High
Glen area opposite the Budiriro high-density suburb to
build the soccer stadium, leaving hundreds of residents
homeless, though the City insists that the structures
were illegal as residents had generally been duped
by land barons to build their homes there. More than
USD1.4-million has been set aside in preparation for the
construction. According to the Council the stadium was
meant to decentralise services and would see people
around the Budiriro area coming to watch football
matches, musical festivals, and other sporting activities.
The project would take three to four years to complete,
and to achieve that the project has been broken down
into small, manageable goals. The intention for this year
is to get to design phase. Designs have been called for the construction of an
industrial park of approximately 4 923ha as part of a
larger planned Palma Industrial Park and Complex in
Northern Mozambique, which itself will cover an area of
18 000ha. It will be divided into:
• an industrial park
• a business centre (609ha)
• a convention centre (534ha)
• a services and commercial centre (256ha)
• housing and equipment storage (3 532ha)
• tourism buildings (179ha)
• leisure and sports (3 276ha) and
• an ecological park (2 880ha).
The Palma Industrial Park will include a 600m 2 galvanised
steel and masonry warehouse with a 300m 2 lay down
area, security fencing surrounding the perimeter of the
park, 24-hour security guards, and security lighting with
generator back-up in case of emergencies.
Tender Procedural
Road infrastructure Industrial infrastructure
Kenya Uganda
Tenders have been called for part of the rehabilitation and
capacity enhancement of James Gichuru Road Junction
– Rironi Highway in Kenya. The road section is part of
the A104 international highway which commences at
Namanga and proceeds northwesterly to Athi River and
on to the Kenya/Uganda border at Malaba. The section
is located in Nairobi and Kiambu counties.
Phase two of the road works spans 12km is estimated
to cost KES25-billion to connect Likoni Road to James
Gichuru Road on Waiyaki Way in Westlands, while the
final segment (25km) runs from James Gichuru Road
to Rironi on the Nairobi-Nakuru highway, this section
will cost KES16-billion. Designs for the first two phases
are being finalised before tendering, with construction
expected to get underway early next year. The entire
project is valued at USD158-million.
Major items of works include: earthworks; cold milling
of existing pavement layers; recycling of the road surface
after cold milling, with addition of cement and graded
crushed stone to form subbase; provision of a stress
absorbing membrane interlayer, provision of base using
dense bitumen macadam. Alebtong district local government has allocated to
government more than 307ha of land for the establishment
of an industrial park, Moroto Industrial Park, Uganda. The
land is located in Akura sub county on the border of
Lira district and Alebtong. Plans for the construction of
the Moroto Industrial Park are still underway, and are
currently being promoted as the ‘China’s footprint in
Uganda’s industrial sector.’
Uganda has nine industrial parks that are yet to be
fully developed. However, government’s five-year plan
is to have 22 operational industrial parks. Functional
industrial parks covering four regions of the country will
be developed by the end of four years, beginning with
the completion of Kampala Industrial Business Park,
Namanve, Nakasongola and the others.
The government’s plan of constructing the industrial
parks has dragged on in most parts of the country due to
land disputes, high prices of land and delayed approval
of the infrastructural designs. Some of the districts that
the government earmarked to host industrial parks
include Jinja, Masindi, Mbale, Moroto, Lira, Gulu, and
Kyenjonjo.
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