East Macedonia and Thrace:Construction Manager of EGNATIA Motorway
Disciplines
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Roads
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Transportation
Companies
Dorsch International Consultants
Construction Sum
€ 418.8 million
Client
EGNATIA ODOS A.E., Thessaloniki (Owner)
Duration
From 1996 to 2004
Project Activities
The contract comprises the construction management of the section during the initial, design, procurement and construction phases on behalf of the owner Egnatia Odos A.E. – a joint stock company totally owned by the Hellenic Republic, formed specifically for designing, constructing, extending, maintaining, operating, administering, supervising and monitoring the Egnatia motorway and the road network feeding into it for the next 50 years.
Services rendered by Dorsch – as lead firm in association with one French and one Greek firm:
- Time scheduling and sequencing
- Cost planning and cost control
- Assistance to the processes of design
- Change control and procurement of contractors
- Measurement verification
- Quality assurance and quality control
- Health, safety and environmental security
- Procurement of land permits and licences
- Monitoring and supervision of contractors´ progress
- Completion and handover of the works
Contact
Dorsch International Consultants GmbH
München (Headquarters)
80687 München
Germany
Phone: +49 89 5797-0
Fax: +49 89 5797-800
E-Mail: info@dorsch.de
Description
Egnatia is a major west-east link between Italy (port of Brindisi), western Greece (port of Igoumenitsa), the Balkan countries and Turkey (Alexandroupolis-Kipi border crossing). The overall length of the motorway, whose construction is largely being financed jointly by European Union structural funds (European Regional Development Fund/ERDF and Cohesion Fund) and the European Investment Bank/EIB, the European Union´s long-term lending institution, is approx. 680 km. The upgrading of the road to motorway standard is intended to afford direct economic benefits in terms of savings in journey time and fewer road accidents, as well as facilitating the development and opening-up of communications in the region and Greece as a whole. The project is included on the Trans-European Network/TEN priority investment list as a trunk route of supraregional importance.
The eastern section of the Egnatia motorway, section C with a length of approx. 300 km, extends from Thessaloniki in Macedonia through Thrace as far as Kipi on the Greek-Turkish border.
The new road is envisaged as a closed 4-lane motorway with a central median. Two typical cross-sections have been selected for the entire axis: typical cross-section with a 24.5 m wide road surface (for sections with a design speed of 120 km/h) and typical cross-section with 21.5 m wide road surface (for sections with a design speed of 80 - 100 km/h).
Because of the nature of the terrain involved (the route passing along the rugged Aegean coastline with its mountains, coastline and river estuaries), the road features a considerable number of tunnel and large-scale bridges. Works on the eastern part include the construction of a by-pass of the large town of Kavala.