Africa-Press – Angola. Sinohydro Corporation Limited resumed Tuesday, the total rehabilitation of 855 meters of the Quicombo (Sumbe) Queve, Salinas, Quiteta and Longa (Porto Amboim) bridges, Cuanza Sul province, on national road number 100.
The works will be confined to the guardrails, support systems, treatment of settlement on the slopes of the bridge and expansion joints, according to the head of the conservation and maintenance department of bridges at the Angola Roads Institute, Dorivaldo Cândido Augusto .
The aforementioned works, which were visited by the Minister of Public Works, Urbanism and Housing, Carlos dos Santos, began in November 2021, with an end in April 2022, but the lack of payments dictated their stoppage.
At the moment, the physical execution of the five bridges makes up 64 percent.
With the resumption of works, it is expected to be completed in June of the current year. The bridges are budgeted at Kz 1,129,076,479.26 and for inspection Kz 41,993,468.20.
The director general of the construction and inspection company ALFIFER, Álvaro Fernandes, highlighted that “these rehabilitation works of bridges that connect, through road number 100, the provinces of Luanda, Cuanza Sul and Benguela must be intervened , with greater brevity, as they are emergencies”.
“If these bridges are not rehabilitated, they will hinder the movement of people and goods”, he warned, having confirmed that the work will be limited, among others, to the guardrails, support systems and expansion joints.
On the Longa river bridge, the vice-governor of Cuanza Sul, for Infrastructure and Technical Services, Heitor Alfredo, expressed the need to reinforce the support system, taking into account that there is a “rocking” when they pass, especially high-speed trucks. tonnages.
On the Longa river bridge, the work carried out was limited to repairing the guardrails, with the settlements still to be treated, while on the Salinas bridge it is completed, but the guardrails have been vandalized.
The guardrails have already been repaired on the Quiteta and Queve bridges, while the Quicombo bridge is finished.
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