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ROAD CONSTRUCTION WORKS AT CLARENCE STREET, MSIDA
08/08/2001
| The Roads department is currently carrying out road | works in local access roads in various towns and villages. These works are targeting roads which to date, had not been surfaced; as well as others where urgent reconstruction works are required in view that these serve an important linking function. A typical case of such works is Clarence Street, Pieta. |
| Members of the press were invited to visit the works | that are presently being carried out in the locality. The Minister for Transport and Communications, Mr. Censu Galea accompanied the press, and all could see the extensive amount of work that such projects require, as well as the extensive amount of work already carried out at this particular site. |
| The Roads department has planned the phasing of the | works after discussions with the contractor, the utilities and the Local Council; thus ensuring that each phase of the works is appropriately agreed upon to avoid delays. Details were given about the planning and preparatory work that had gone into the job, seeing that this street serves as one of the major accesses to St. Luke’s Hospital. |
| The project itself started after an extensive road | engineering survey using the Benkelman beam deflection, and sub-grade plate bearing tests were carried out by the engineering team at the Roads department to enable the department’s engineers to design the new pavement construction and associated works as required. After a call for tenders the contract was placed with Roads Servicing Ltd., for the works to be carried out. Work commenced on the 23rd July and at present this is proceeding in two sections of the road. Work on the third section will commence after the current two sections are completed to ensure that traffic to the hospital is not disrupted. |
| The work consists of the taking up and replacing of | the old water mains in the street and of the old road pavement and road base, the reinforcement through an appropriately designed cement stabilisation process of the road foundations and the reconstruction of the road base and asphalt bound courses, using appropriately chosen materials and properly graded mixes. |
| As usual in such road works, buried utilities’ plant, | pipes and cables in the roadway are a hindrance. |
In some instances new pipes or cables may have to be laid because on excavation, these would have been found to lie just below the surface of the road. In this instance, the electricity cables will need to be lowered as in some cases they have been encountered at a depth of a mere 8cm below the road surface.
The total length of road being reconstructed is approximately 320m long and consists of a single carriage-way 8m wide. The estimated value of the contract is in the region of Lm46,000.
All works are closely monitored by Roads department staff and continuous testing of the materials being used is carried out by the contractor and by the department’s quality control section, all under the advice of the department’s German consultants.
Contracts for road works of a similar nature are in hand in 52 streets in 21 localities for a total value of Lm 1,193,000 and works are in hand on most of these contracts.
Calls for tenders have been published for the surfacing of twenty other streets in nine localities for an estimated value of Lm540,000.
DOI – 08.08.2001
Tenders Published
Locality | Description of works | Estimated Value |
Birgu | Construction of street near Lorenzo Gafa Str, St.James entrance & foss, near Fortini Housing Estate Guzeppi Decelis | Lm56,608 |
Bugibba | Construction and surfacing of p/o Triq il-Port Ruman, Triq G.Despott | Lm41,717 |
Kalkara | Road works and construction of storm water culvert at p/o Triq Rinella | Lm43,410 |
Hal Kirkop | Construction of Triq San Guzepp Construction & surfacing of Triq Danny Cremona | Lm11,070 Lm 73,068 |
Lija | Construction and surfacing works at n/s in Preca Street Cons & surfacing works at (4) new streets in Preca Street | Lm 16,059 Lm 49,070 |
Marsascala | Road works at Triq l-Ikhal Road works at Triq ta’Gidwet Road works at Triq Ghaxqet il-Ghajn | Lm 6,548 Lm 45,609 Lm 67,907 |
Marsaxlokk | Road works re access road to Triq il-Port Ruman | Lm 18,049 |
Pembroke | Construction of rd at p/o Triq Mitrovich, Misrah il-Paci & p/o N.Tagliaferro | Lm 30,061 |
Qormi | Construction & surfacing works at Triq San Gwakkin | Lm 25,358 |
St. Paul’s Bay | Construction of Triq il-Fjuri | Lm 55,653 |
Total | Lm540,187 |
Works currently in hand in the construction of private streets by the Roads Department as at 8th August 2001
Locality | Description of works | Estimated Value |
Birgu | Construction of street near Lorenzo Gafa Str, St.James entrance & foss, near Fortini Housing Estate Guzeppi Decelis | Lm56,608 |
Bugibba | Construction and surfacing of p/o Triq il-Port Ruman, Triq G.Despott | Lm41,717 |
Kalkara | Road works and construction of storm water culvert at p/o Triq Rinella | Lm43,410 |
Hal Kirkop | Construction of Triq San Guzepp Construction & surfacing of Triq Danny Cremona | Lm11,070 Lm 73,068 |
Lija | Construction and surfacing works at n/s in Preca Street Cons & surfacing works at (4) new streets in Preca Street | Lm 16,059 Lm 49,070 |
Marsascala | Road works at Triq l-Ikhal Road works at Triq ta’Gidwet Road works at Triq Ghaxqet il-Ghajn | Lm 6,548 Lm 45,609 Lm 67,907 |
Marsaxlokk | Road works re access road to Triq il-Port Ruman | Lm 18,049 |
Pembroke | Construction of rd at p/o Triq Mitrovich, Misrah il-Paci & p/o N.Tagliaferro | Lm 30,061 |
Qormi | Construction & surfacing works at Triq San Gwakkin | Lm 25,358 |
St. Paul’s Bay | Construction of Triq il-Fjuri | Lm 55,653 |
Total | Lm540,187 |
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