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Executive Member
At 6m face advance, Imbokodo was never gonna finish underground tunneling before 2010.
The Gauteng provincial government will have to pay extra should it wish to have the first phase of the Gautrain rapid-rail project completed in time for the 2010 soccer World Cup.
Sean Flanagan, an executive director of construction group Murray & Roberts, which has a 25% share in the Bombela consortium building the Gautrain, says the consortium has not been contracted to have any element of the rail project completed in time for the 2010 event.
“If it is required, it will entail negotiations between Bombela and the client (the Gauteng govern- ment) on measures to accelerate the project.”
Flanagan says Bombela has been contracted to complete the first phase of the 80-km, R25-bil-lion project in 45 months.
This initial phase entails the Sandton to OR Tambo International Airport link, as well as the link between Sandton and Midrand.
The remaining five stations, inclusive of the links between Sandton and Johannesburg’s Park station, and Midrand and Hatfield, in Tshwane, will be completed and tested in 54 months, which adds up to April 2011.
“Forty-five months gives you a completed date of July 2010, by which time the World Cup is, of course, over.
“We would have to accelerate the project by two months to complete it in time for the event.
“This will cost money, as we would have to bring in additional resources.”
Flanagan explains that Bombela would have to investigate ways to work faster, followed by an investigation into the costs of this acceleration process.
The Gauteng provincial government would have to weigh the costs of this process against the possible benefits of having the rail project completed in time for the World Cup.
http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article.php?a_id=128320
The Gauteng provincial government will have to pay extra should it wish to have the first phase of the Gautrain rapid-rail project completed in time for the 2010 soccer World Cup.
Sean Flanagan, an executive director of construction group Murray & Roberts, which has a 25% share in the Bombela consortium building the Gautrain, says the consortium has not been contracted to have any element of the rail project completed in time for the 2010 event.
“If it is required, it will entail negotiations between Bombela and the client (the Gauteng govern- ment) on measures to accelerate the project.”
Flanagan says Bombela has been contracted to complete the first phase of the 80-km, R25-bil-lion project in 45 months.
This initial phase entails the Sandton to OR Tambo International Airport link, as well as the link between Sandton and Midrand.
The remaining five stations, inclusive of the links between Sandton and Johannesburg’s Park station, and Midrand and Hatfield, in Tshwane, will be completed and tested in 54 months, which adds up to April 2011.
“Forty-five months gives you a completed date of July 2010, by which time the World Cup is, of course, over.
“We would have to accelerate the project by two months to complete it in time for the event.
“This will cost money, as we would have to bring in additional resources.”
Flanagan explains that Bombela would have to investigate ways to work faster, followed by an investigation into the costs of this acceleration process.
The Gauteng provincial government would have to weigh the costs of this process against the possible benefits of having the rail project completed in time for the World Cup.
http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article.php?a_id=128320