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Construction
of the Horse Shoe Road - Kokstad
This project comprises the construction of 3.1kilometres of
double–seal surfaced road around the Horse Shoe township in Ward
1 of the Greater Kokstad Municipality. The client is the Greater
Kokstad Municipality and the project is funded by Municipal
Infrastructure Grants. Scientific Roets (PTY) Ltd and Enacu
Consulting Engineers are Joint Venture civil engineering
consultants who have designed and are managing and supervising
the construction of the road.
The Horse Shoe Road currently has two existing roads, Road 2 and
Road 3, which have limited road reserves and dysfunctional storm
water systems that need rehabilitation. Road 2 is 1.26km long
and has an existing sub–base layer of 600m, and Road 3 is 1.69km
long and has 400m of existing sub–base layer. The scope of
construction works is to rip the existing sub–base layers and
construct the road to a 4.5m wide double–seal surfaced road and
to provide better storm water management.
Detailed construction
activities:
- Clearing and grubbing of
existing road
- Installation of concrete pipe
culverts
- Construction of inlet and
outlet structures
- Construction of mesh
reinforced trapezium and V–drains
- Mass earthworks to obtain
required shape
- Ripping existing sub–base
layers
- Road-bed preparation to 150mm
thickness
- Construction of the sub–grade
and sub–base layers to 150mm thickness each
- Construction of base course
layer to 150mm thickness
- Construction of double–seal
wearing course
- Provision of road traffic
signs.
- Testing the workmanship
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The project is now (Jan 2008)
at the mass earthworks stage and will be continued after the
construction holidays.
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