Dawnus picked to build £10m road in Liberia

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Dawnus picked to build £10m road in Liberia

Dawnus International has been awarded its third contract in Liberia for the £10m Gangra Haul Road project for the world’s largest steel manufacturer, ArcelorMittal. ArcelorMittal is developing three iron ore deposits and a concentrator in the mountains of Nimba County, 300km north east of Liberia’s capital, Monrovia.

The work will involve constructing 13km of road through a heavy bush area, along with a 50m bridge across the Dayea River, a 100m bat tunnel and restoration works including replanting 85 hectares of trees and grasses. The road construction will involve major earthworks with cut and fill quantities exceeding 1,000,000m3 of soil and rock to form the cuttings and embankments. The wearing course pavement will be constructed using stone from a quarry involving Dawnus drilling, blasting and processing 40,000m3 of products.

Challenges will include sedimentation and erosion issues to protect existing watercourses during the bulk earthworks and flora and fauna protection measures required for both the bats and Western Chimpanzees.

It will be important to meet the project milestones, not only to deliver client demands but to avoid extending the works into a challenging wet season.

The Dawnus International team are currently working in Liberia reconstructing the disused Mount Coffee Hydroelectric Power Plant (pictured) to generate electricity to Monrovia and surrounding areas, due to finish in October 2017.

About Dawnus International

Dawnus is an international civil engineering and building company, operated by a senior management team of highly skilled professionals who possess the technical abilities and experience to deal with a wide range of projects.

In addition to self-delivery of civil engineering works the Dawnus Group offers a range of complementary services through our subsidiary companies:

Quantum Geotechnical, a direct geotechnical investigation and geo-contracting team who assess and manage ground risk.

Legsun Building Services, which enables us to directly deliver mechanical and electrical services and control these critical tasks in-house

Source: www.dawnus.co.uk

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