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December 2013
CONSTRUCTION WORLD
Civil Engineering Contractors
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Project information
• Name of project: N12
– Tom Jones
• Name of company entering:
Basil Read
• Client: SANRAL
• Project start date: July 2009
• Project end date: March 2013
• Main contractor: Basil Read
• Principal agent: Aurecon/Vela
VKE
• Project manager: Basil Read
• Subcontractor: University of
Pretoria
• Cement supplier: Lafarge
• Additive supplier: Chryso SA
• Project value: R780-million
(approximately)
well as temperature-related expansion/contraction in UTCRCPs,
Basil Read’s team, assisted by some of the industry’s most recog-
nised specialists in their fields, has gone a far way in illustrating
the enormous potential that this technology holds. With over
5 500m
3
of UTCRCP and almost 30 000m
3
of CRCP paved, this project
has clearly shown the scale of success that the integration of research,
design, skills, science, technical and adaptive methodologies have
culminated towards.
In 1967, South Africamademedical history by performing the first
heart transplant on a human. More recently, SANRAL has successfully
made engineering history by themass roll-out of CRCPs and UTCRCPs
on such a large scale – expanding the ‘veins and arteries’ of South
Africa’s economy with innovative concrete technology.
