The Transport Directorate of the ECOWAS Fee is internet hosting a 3-day technical validation workshop for the Detailed Design Examine (DDS) of the Abidjan-Lagos Hall Freeway in Lagos, Nigeria, from Wednesday, eleventh September to Friday, thirteenth September 2024.
The Abidjan-Lagos Hall Freeway Improvement Mission (ALCHDP) goals to assemble a 6-lane twin carriage freeway from Abidjan in Cote d’Ivoire, via Ghana, Togo, Benin to Lagos in Nigeria. The 5 Hall International locations have entrusted the ECOWAS Fee because the Implementing Company within the interim, to design, procure, mobilize financing and assemble the Freeway. In the long run, a supra-national Hall Authority, often known as the Abidjan-Lagos Hall Administration Authority (ALCOMA) which will probably be operationalized to take over the undertaking on behalf of the hall International locations.
The primary Part of this Mission entails amongst different issues, alignment definition and feasibility and preliminary designs research for the 1,028km street which was accomplished by the three Engineering Design Consultants and validated by the Hall Member States in November 2022, after a considerable delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These corporations went on to develop the Detailed Design of the Freeway.
Mission Administrators and Engineers from the 5 Hall Member International locations accompanied Engineers from the Financial Neighborhood of West African States (ECOWAS) together with the Mission Unit and Technical Assistants to carry preliminary technical evaluations of the Detailed Design Reviews and Drawings inside the context of the broader hall goals and the particular nation peculiarities. These have been completed via national-level pre-validation workshops throughout the 5 (5) Abidjan-Lagos Hall Member States of Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, and Côte d’Ivoire from June 18 to 24, 2024.
The Reviews and proposals from the nationwide pre-validation workshops have been collated and consolidated with feedback from the ECOWAS Technical Help crew and can kind the premise for the validation of the Detailed Design of all the Abidjan Lagos Hall Freeway.
This closing technical validation workshop marks a vital part in concluding the technical research of the undertaking’s improvement and can contain an intensive technical validation session, the place the Mission Administrators and Engineers of the 5 (5) collaborating Hall Member International locations (CMCs) will evaluation and grant their closing approval to the Detailed Design Research (DDS) and Technical Specs important for advancing the event of the Freeway Mission to the subsequent stage.
This Technical Validation Workshop could have in attendance engineers from the Mission Implementation Unit (PIU) of the Abidjan Lagos Hall Freeway Improvement Mission, the Directorates of Transport and Setting, of the ECOWAS Fee, the ECOWAS Mission Preparation and Improvement Unit (PPDU) and the CEP, Representatives of Ministries answerable for Infrastructure, Mission focus, Administrators and Hall Member Nation (CMC) Engineers, who’re members of the PIU of Hall Member International locations (CMCs), Improvement Companions and Stakeholders together with African Improvement Financial institution and European Union.
Additionally in attendance will probably be undertaking Engineering Consultants comprising SETEC Worldwide, PEARL Consultants, SCET Tunisie and SOFRECO the Technical Assistant to the ALCHDP and the media
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