Construction of new Harbour Bridge on track – says Edghill

MINISTER of Public Works , Juan Edghill , on Friday , said that the construction of the US$260 million Demerara Harbour Bridge is on track to be completed in 2024

Speaking on the sidelines of an event, the Minister said that the works are “progressing”.

Last year, the government signed a contract with Chinese joint venture – China Railway Construction ( International )

“They’ve already driven the piles to put in four concrete batching plants, two on the east side and two on the west side So work is progressing, and we are holding them [contractors] to the deadline,” Minister Edghill added.

On Friday , CRCCL presented its progress report on the new bridge to Minister Edghill

The team was led by Li Chongyang, President/ Director of CRCCL, who assured the Minster that

Limited (CRCCL) for the bridge

Supervision of this project is being done by Politecnica, an Italian supervisory firm

“The work on the Demerara Harbour Bridge is progressing We’re actually going to see a ramping up of the pile driving in the actual river because the contract is right now creating an area where they will have to cordon off to be able to start doing actual physical construction,” the Minister said He further explained that 250 containers of steel will be used to put in a temporary bridge right across the alignment to do the construction of the bridge work is progressing well, and that the project should be completed within its contractual time period

The new bridge is expected to be some 2.65 kilometres long with two carriageways and four lanes

It is a hybrid design with a high span having a cable-stay design, even as the vertical height of the bridge is to be constructed at 50 metres from the mean highest watermark

This new bridge is said to have a design lifespan of 100 years and will take the place of the existing bridge , which has been in operation for more than 40 years, surpassing its projected lifespan.