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Msikaba advances on multiple fronts
Construction of the Msikaba Bridge near Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape – which started in earnest in late 2019 – continues to make good progress. The bridge’s four huge anchor blocks are now nearing completion, over 50% of the concrete for the bridge’s two 127 m high pylons has been poured and the complex deck construction phase of the project is about to start.
On the safety front, the project has a superb record, with 3 million LTI-free hours being notched up on 21 October 2022. This is a major achievement for a technically demanding project which has a large workforce (more than 500 people currently), who have mainly been recruited locally and who, for the most part, had no formal sector work experience of any kind prior to recruitment.
The slope stabilisation at Sir Lowry’s Pass
This civil engineering construction project involved the stabilisation of cut slopes on the eastbound side of the N2, Section 2, between km 12,06 and km 12,31, at Sir Lowry’s Pass, near Somerset West in the Western Cape.
The design was undertaken by Zutari’s Cape Town geotechnical and highway teams and Naidu Consulting were appointed to oversee the project management and construction monitoring aspects. Civils 2000 of Cape Town partnered with GeoCiv (formerly Mega Pile Inland) to form the C2KMPI Joint Venture. These teams brought more than 50 years of combined experience to the project.
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