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Flexible Pavement Maintenance in Kenya
CONTRACT NO. RD. 0474 1. CONTRACT DETAILS Financing - Government of Kenya Development Vote Engineer - Chief Engineer (Roads), MOR&PW Contractor - Aegis Construction Ltd. Design - Sapamo Consulting Engineers Design Fee - Kshs.10,971,048.00 Contract sum - Kshs.502,026,888.00 Contract Period - 15 Months Date of commencement - 4th April, 2007 Contractual Date of completion - 5th July, 2008 Period of time elapsed - 7 months (47%) Amount certified to date - Kshs.64,396,896.95 Physical progress to date - 25% Date of this report - 7th December, 2007 2. SCOPE OF WORK The works entail construction to Bitumen Standard of 6.5m carriageway and 2 x 1.5m shoulders with a pavement structure of 150mm Lime Improved Gravel Subbase, 175mm cement improved gravelbase and double surface dressing using 14/20mm and 6/10mm chippings of the following roads: (a) Mutunduri – Kianjokoma (D467) - 13.0 Km (b) Manyatta – Kairuri (E636) Spur Road - 3.0 Km (c) Market Roads and Mutunduri, Manyatta and Kianjokoma - 1.5 Km (d) Access Road from Manyatta –Market to Manyatta Police Station - 1.0 Km Total 18.5 Km 3. C*URRENT * STATUS Progress achieved is 25% and the contractors pace is picking up. CONSTRUCTION OF ENA – ISHIARA – CHIAKARIGA (C92/E789) ROAD PROJECT Commencement Date : 2nd April, 2007 The road is classified as C92 for 54 Km and E789 for the remaining 6Km. Section I KM 0+000 – KM 22 + 000 225mm cement Improved Gravel Subbase 150mm Cement Improved Gravel Base 50mm Asphalt Concrete Wearing Course on carriageway Section II: KM 22 + 000 – KM 50 + 000 200 mm Cement Improved Gravel Subbase 150mm Graded Crushed Stone Base 50 Km Asphalt Concrete Wearing Course on Carriageway Section III: KM 50+000 – KM 60+000 Overall progress is 14% with the following accomplishments: Earthworks upto 9 + 000 Km 1 Box culvert Complete 1 Box Culvert 50% complete.
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