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There is some concern over engineering services for Amaila road

Apr 29, 2012 News

 

An official close to the Amaila Falls Road Project is worried that SRKN’Gineering headed by Dr. Ravi Naraine is incapable of designing the remaining portion of the road leading to Amaila Falls.
The official alleged that SRKN’Gineering failed to identify the flaws in the road designs as the consultant providing ‘Supervisory Oversight’ of the Amaila Falls Road that was being constructed by Makeshwar ‘Fip’ Motilall, of Synergy Holdings Inc. Synergy had won a US$15.4M contract.
According to Government’s Engineer, Walter Willis, the Ministry of Public Works is rejecting the contention that SRKN’Gineering did not identify that flaw. He said that the engineering company did and told Sithe Global, which in turn sought a second opinion from the Trinidadian company.
The Ministry of Public Works had nothing to do with the road design which was found to be flawed by a Trinidadian Company, BBFL Caribbean Limited, and not SRKN Gineering.
Willis noted that Motilall was responsible for designing sections one to five of the road. His failure to design section six has landed the parties in court. The contract was for a design and build operation. This meant that Motilall was to design and build the road.
A source pointed out that from sections one to four, the roadway already existed and all Motilall had to do was to widen the stretch with other modifications.
According to the source, if SRKN’Gineering with the responsibility for ‘Supervisory Oversight’ was knowledgeable of designing roads in rough terrains, the errors would have been identified even before any stone was turned on the road.
The official has alleged that it was Sithe Global’s officials, who were displeased with the road designs and progress of the work that resulted in BBFL coming to Guyana to inspect the site.
It was noted that BBFL made many recommendations on the flaws but the most alarming one was the steepness in the road. The foreign company suggested that the road be built with about 6.5 percent steepness and not the 20 percent according to the designs on hand.
“If the road were to be built with 20 percent steepness only certain heavy duty machinery such as excavators would be able to traverse it. Other vehicles would slide during the rainy conditions which prevail almost year round,” the source pointed out.
Soliciting a comment from SRKN’Gineering was impossible since Willis declared that Dr. Naraine is not permitted to speak to the media.
SRKN’Gineering has been retained to provide oversight for the project. His $63M contract remains in force and has been extended to September.

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