The Civil Engineering Contractor March 2019 | Page 10

PROJECT OWNERS
Project: Interchange upgrade
Client:
The Hammarsdale Interchange is
being upgraded in KwaZulu-Natal.
Sanral
Location: KwaZulu-Natal
The Hammarsdale Interchange is being
upgraded on the National Route 3, section 2
(9.4km) in KwaZulu-Natal in the eThekwini
Metropolitan Municipality at an estimated
project value of R276-million. The tender
was awarded to Stefanutti Stocks Civils
KZN, with a contract duration of 30 months.
The Hammarsdale project began in April
2016 and Sanral has confirmed its deadline
would not be met because of stoppages
caused by the local business forum. The
project was expected to complete in 2018.
Sanral says delays were due to the
ongoing disruptions at the site. Sanral is
committed to supporting government’s
efforts to push back the frontiers of poverty
and improving the lives of South African
citizens in general by promoting community
development through all its projects. It
is compulsory for all Sanral’s projects to
ensure participation by SMEs, especially
women-owned enterprises, and skills
transfer. This is sometimes misconstrued.
A project liaison committee, comprising
members from Sanral, the main contractor,
and members of the local community at
Hammarsdale, was established to oversee
the socio-economic requirements and
ensure active community involvement and
smooth running of the project.
The forum has received a number of court
interdicts for employing ‘mafia-style’ tactics
to grab chunks of work from contractors on
government projects.
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Upgrade of Hammarsdale
Interchange
Construction of Polihali Village
Project: Construction of worker housing
Client:
LHDA
Location: Lesotho
Further to the Insight article (page 30) announcing as many as 35
contracts for the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), the Lesotho
Highlands Development Authority (the implementing authority of the
LHWP) is calling for expressions of interest to procure the construction
of the Polihali Village.
The LHWP is a multibillion maloti/rand bi-national project that was
established by the treaty of 1986 signed between the governments of
the Kingdom of Lesotho and the Republic of South Africa. The LHWP
includes large-scale civil engineering, socio-economic, public health, and
environmental disciplines.
The various contracts already in force cover a range of environmental
impact assessments, socio-economic and resettlement projects,
hydropower feasibility, advance infrastructure projects encompassing
access roads, project housing, power and telecommunications,
geotechnical investigations, the Polihali diversion tunnel, major bridges,
and the main works, being the Polihali Dam and transfer tunnel. Other
than the geotechnical drillers, demarcation survey, and the first two
advance infrastructure construction contract awards announced in the
last quarter of 2018, these are all consulting services contracts.
Resettlement planning is nearing completion — livelihood restoration
demonstration projects have started in the project area. Environmental
Records of Decision have been granted for the Polihali western access
corridor and the main Polihali project area, environmental go-ahead
for the new Polihali western access road and the Polihali Dam, Polihali
transfer tunnel, major bridges, and project housing. The fieldwork for
the cultural heritage protection programme is progressing steadily.
Equally important, the dam and tunnel designs are at an advanced stage
and several more advance infrastructure construction contracts are
under procurement.
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