CAREC Corridor 3 (Shymkent-Tashkent) Kazakhstan

Our Role

SMEC is providing construction supervision services for this project.

SMEC’s scope of work includes:

• Undertaking detailed engineering design review
• Ensure that the construction methods proposed by the contractor for carrying out the works are satisfactory
• Construction equipment inspection
• Ensure “as built” drawings are prepared by the contractors for all works as construction progresses
• Ensure road safety design requirements are implemented
• Develop quality assurance system and quality control plan
• Ensure project financial management procedures are in place and are strictly followed
• Supervise and monitor the implementation of Environmental Mitigation Plan (EMP) and the Land Acquisition and Resettlement Plan (LARP)
• Undertake project performance monitoring, evaluation and reporting

Project Overview

This project forms part of the CAREC Corridor 3 project and connects Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, with Shymkent, one of Kazakhstan's major industrial cities.

Project scope of work comprises the rehabilitation of a 38 km four-lane asphalt paved section of the Shymkent-Tashkent roadway in Kazakhstan.

Key components of the project include:

• Replacement of asphalt pavement
• Reducing vertical gradients to improve safety and accessibility
• Replacement of culverts and drainage structures
• Construction of seven underpasses
• Rehabilitation of one interchange
• Installation of roadside lighting

Location:

Kazakhstan

Technical Area:

Transport

Client:

Committee for Roads, Ministry of Investments and Development, Kazakhstan