Bodo-Bonny Road: Umahi Hails Julius Berger Consistent Topnotch Quality

The Hon. Minister of Works, Engr. David Umahi and senior Julius Berger officials, Engrs Thomas Balzuweit and Ingo Edinger and other ministry officials and consultants at Channel- upon the minister’s arrival for his inspection visit to Bodo-Bonny road project site in Rivers State, recently.

The contractors handling the strategic Bodo-Bonny Road (BBR) project, Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, has once more been commended for the good quality of engineering construction work they are doing across the country.
The Bodo-Bonny Road project has a total length of 38 km road, with about 14 Km located through low-lying marshy and swampy terrain; and about 13 Km lying through a soft soil terrain.

The project also consists of three main bridges which include the 501.5 m Afa bridge, the 713.5 m Opobo bridge; and the 448.5 m Nanabie bridge. It consists of nine numbers mini bridges with different length, one pipeline crossing bridge and many culverts as well as a 6 km concrete Bonny town road with 13 numbers pipeline crossings – the design approved by the government and opinion of experts, the most feasible and officially accepted works implementation option consisted of nearly 10 million metres of vertical drains (PVD), more than 500,000 m² of geotex reinforcement, replacement of culverts with mini-bridges as well as the execution of approach bridges.