Roads and Highways Engineering
An adequate road network as part of the overall transportation system is essential to serve the transportation needs of a healthy and growing economy. GIBB’s highly capable team is involved in all stages of planning, design and contract supervision of the full spectrum of highway facilities, whether it is high capacity freeways or low volume roads.
Our services include:
New and Upgrading of existing Roads:
- Report stage planning to determine the most feasible route or upgrading alternative
- Preliminary design stage planning
- Detailed design including geometric, drainage and pavement design
Road Maintenance and Rehabilitation:
- The timeous maintenance and/or rehabilitation of the existing pavements network are fundamental to cost effective and sustainable infrastructure provision. GIBB’s experience covers the full range of services necessary to derive optimum and cost effective design solutions
Bridges:
- GIBB draws on its vast experience in utilizing approach alternatives in the design and rehabilitation of bridges which carry people, vehicles, railways and pipelines over geographical or infrastructural barriers to produce appropriate and cost effective solutions
Procurement and Construction Supervision:
- Tender documentation
- Pre-construction services, i.e. the tender process, adjudication of tenders and recommendations and assistance to the client in appointing a contractor
- Contract supervision
- Post construction services
Public Private Partnership Projects:
- GIBB provides support and advice to concessionaires and its financiers in public private partnership projects such as toll roads
Research:
- GIBB’s pavement engineering, asphalt and friction course research and development expertise is frequently published at international conferences
The planning and design process requires the integration of a wide variety of inputs from a range of specialists, namely:
- Town planning
- Transportation engineering
- Traffic engineering
- Geometric design
- Pavement and pavement rehabilitation design
- Bridge design
- Flood hydrology and hydraulics
- Drainage, including stormwater design
- Environmental input
- Topographical survey and mapping
- Geotechnical investigations
- Road lighting
- Trafffic signal and other control
- Occupational health and safety