Construction Supervision of Dodola-

Sebsebewasha- Goba Heavy

Maintenance Road Project

February 2022

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 Project Information

• Project Name;- Dodola – Sebsebewasha - Goba Heavy

Maintenance Road Project
• Project starting;- Kofele (268+000)
• Project End;- Bale Goba (447+500)
• Project Length;- 178 km (Asphalt Surfacing)
• Client:- ERA, Shashemene RN&SMD
• Consultant/Supervisor/; Whiteknight CMC
• Contractor;- Afework Gidey General Contractor
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 Basic Contract Data (Work’s Contract
Funding Source Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE)
Type of Project Heavy Maintenance Road Project
Employer/Contracting Authority Ethiopian Roads Adminstration (ERA)
Shahsmene Road Network& Saftey Management Directorate (Shashmene RN&SMD)
Contractor Afework Gidey General Contractor
Engineer/Supervisor WHITEKNIGHT Construction Management Consultants Plc.
Engineer/Supervisor’s Representative Eskindir Masresha (Resident Engineer)
Notification of Award (Date) June 08,2020
Date of Contract Signature June 23, 2020
Commencement Date July 23, 2020
Type of Contract Admeasurement (BOQ)
Accepted Contract Amount ETB 202,683,706.38 (including VAT (15%) and Contingency (10%))
Value of Change order/Variations ETB 0,000,000.00
Revised Total Contract Amount ETB 202,683,706.38 (including VAT (15%) and Contingency (10%))
Contract Length (original and final) 24 months
Minimum Value of Payment Certificate ETB 1,500,000.00
Delay Damages/Liquidated damage 0.1% of the value of remaining works
Original Time for Completion July 23, 2022
Revised Completion Date Not yet revised
Actual Completion Date
Original Completion Date July 23, 2022
Extensions of Time Granted Not yet requested/Approved
Minimum Length for Provisional Acceptance N/A
Defects Notification Period A maximum of 1 year depending on the type of maintenance activity performed
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Insurances and Bonds

Type (Bond, Source Sub. Date Exp. Date Remarks
I. No (Active/
Description Amount Guarantee, /Bank/
ETB Fully Paid)
Policy) Insurer

Tsehay
1 Dodola –S/Washa- 20,272,395.64 Performance
Insurance
08/06/20 13/06/23
Goba Heavy Road Bond Active
Maintenance
Tsehay
36,142,683.00 Advance Bond 04/08/20 04/08/22
Insurance
Active

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 Cont’d (Supervision Contract)
Funding Agency Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE)

Name of Supervision consultant WHITEKNIGHT Construction Management Consultants Plc.

Date Contract signing June 30, 2021

Date of commencement July 16 ,2021

Contract Period 24 Months

Original Contract Price ETB 27,739,834.14 (including 15% VAT)

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 Project Status

UP TO PREVIOUS THIS MONTH

DESCRIPTION UNIT MONTH (Jan 2021) TO DATE

Time Elapsed Cal. Days 520 31 551.00

% 71.23 4.25 75.48

Work Planned (excluding general Birr 75,375,457.27 10,941,502.45 86,316,959.72
provision and day works) % 54.53 7.91 62.44
Work Executed (excluding general Birr 27,652,608.69 0.00 27,652,608.69
provision and day works) % 20.00 - 20.00
Slippage from Elapsed Time % 51.23 4.25 55.48
Slippage from Planned % 34.52 7.91 42.44

Slippage of the Project Progress against Schedule and Contract Time

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 Status of Claim and Variations
 Summary of Claims

The contractor has not yet submitted either time and/or cost claim
or combination of them up to date.
 Status of Change Order/Variations/

The contractor has requested for approval of unit rate for pay
items not included in the BOQ (sub base material provision and
Class B masonry construction for retaining walls), while the
activities were required to complete the project. Waiting client’s
approval, but they usedWKthe provisional
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rates.
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 Problems Encountered
- Late mobilization of contractor (2 Months delay) and suspension of
the project activities since November 14th 2021 (3 months)
- Contractor’s failure to mobilize both crusher and asphalt plant as
per the schedule
- Lack of experience for such kind of works contract for both the
contractor and/or his staffs
- Poor site management
- Late establishment of laboratory
- Maintained section in 2013 EFY including asphalt paving were
failed again; WK CMC PLC Feb. 2022
 Cause of Failure for Failed Road Sections

 Insufficient pavement thickness –

According to ERA pavement design manual catalog, the thickness

of the asphalt concrete, base course and sub base for the traffic
class of T6 and sub grade strength class S3 (CBR value 5-7) must be
5 cm thick, 20 cm and 35 cm thick respectively.

 Asphalt surfacing (actual 3 cm)/5cm

 Base course is (actual 15 cm)/ 20 cm
 Sub base (actual 30 cm) / 35 cm
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 Poor quality of material
 Asphalt concrete –
- Air void (void in the mix) 3-5% /6.1%
- Stability min. 9KN (7.13 KN)
- Flow (2-3.5 mm)/ 3.56
- Bitumen content (4.7-5.3%) /5.6%
 Base course
- CBR Value in some location is less than 80 , (spec. M15, 2003),
- PL/LL and PI in some location out of spec.
- Gradation – out of gradation envelope

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 Sub base
- Some of Natural sub base sources has CBR value of less than 30%, inadequate to
used as a sub base
- The plasticity indices and liquid limit of the sub base material to be used in wet
climatic zone [i.e. less than 6% and less than 35% respectively], km 322+500 is
marginally satisfy the requirements.

- The gradation of samples shows that the gradation curve falls on the finer side of
the grading envelope of the specification.

- In general, all the sub base materials which have collected from the failed section
of the project have found WK CMC PLC
unsuitable Feb. construction.
for sub base 2022
Sample collection for quality test on recently maintained section st. 376+080

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 workman ship (compaction was not done on the required
level for both sub base and base course)

- The level of compaction of all base course material found to be below the
requirement of specification i.e. below 98 % of the maximum dry density
achieved by heavy compaction test except one test conducted on station
km 384+300 which pass marginally.

- Similarly the tests conducted on the sub base layer reveals that the level of
compaction of all sub base layers is found below the required specification.

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% compaction Vs station
99
97
95
93
91
89
% compaction

87
85
83
81
79
77
75
73
71
69
67
65
376+356 376+600 379+000 381+000
sation

Fig.1 :- level compaction sub

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base layer
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% compaction vs station
110
106
102
98
94
90
% compaction

86
82
78
74
70
66
62
58
54
50
325+000 327+510 341+200 378+200 381+600 383+600 384+300
station

Fig 2. Level compaction base

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course layer
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In-suit density determination Sub base layer

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 Climate condition –
Climatic factors include rainfall and annual variation in temperature is
important consideration in pavement deterioration.
 Seasonal effects of rain during construction work
 Poor drainage system (both surface and sub surface)
 Rise in ground water table
- Arise in ground water depth influences the moisture contents of the
unbound materials and subgrade soils, thereby reducing their strength.
- we have observing the rise in ground water on some of the failed section
especially on mountainous section of the project (Sebsebe washa)
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Fig 3. ground water at the verge of the road

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 Poor surface drainage

-In sufficient capacity of the side ditch, clogging of the

side ditch and cross drainage structures (pipe culverts)
with sediment coming from the top of the mountain
- Lack of proper maintenance
-Some of the pipes and side ditches were closed by local
dwellers intentionally in relation with flooding and for
access (pedestrianWKand vehicular crossing).
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 Critical Section of the project
 Section 1 – Kofele –Dodola; has potholes, deformations, rutting and cracking
(accessible with less maintenance/

 Section 2- Dodola –Dinsho; highly deteriorated section, needs emergency

repair/ maintenance; this may cause traffic interruption unless corrective action
were taken timely (before the upcoming rainy season “blge”) especially
Sebsebewasha Area (373+000- 389+000),

- Side drains and cross drainage structures were closed/ blocked by silt are - In
addition to this, some of the road section may become interrupted
- Due to contractors sudden stoppage, material dumped on the road, and
excavation for the construction of check dam/ retaining wall and gabion
structures has effect the existing (station 357+157 and 376+300)

 Section 3- Dinsho- Bale Goba /potholes formation, deformation, rutting,

cracking, but accessible for traffic with less maintenance/
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Gabion structure @ 376+000 (material, ditches
are closed)

Check dam/ retaining wall @ 357+157 (material, back fill

was not completed, excavation for construction)

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 Actions Taken/ To Be Taken

- The contractor should be able to deliver all required resource manpower,

materials, construction equipment’s and plant (crusher and asphalt) independent

of the other project within the same package (Aposto –H/Selam Heavy

Maintenance Road Project) and recommence the project within short period of

time.
- The contractor should hire/ assign qualified person for respected position

including the project manager

- Contractor has demobilized the available construction machineries that needs

remobilization (currently only few construction machineries were available)

- To produce quality base course material, asphalt aggregate and also to find out
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quality sub base material that meets the project specification
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- The contractor shall to establish project site laboratory, for conducting quality

tests at the project level

- The contractor shall to form sufficient number of crews and to extend

working hour to compensate elapsed time without significant project progress

- On failed sections :- proper remedial action to be taken

- The engineer’s recommendation, construction of rigid pavement in between

successive existing rigid pavements, to use rock fill material, to properly clean
side ditch's and construct new side ditch (paved waterway, masonry ditch and
concrete ditches)

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- The Client need to take on time action for revision and approval of unit rate
for new work items /new additional activities were required to complete the
project/ i.e.;

 Structural excavation
 Back fill (selected material and granular fill)
 Ditch clearing by machine
 Reinforced ditch cover for pedestrian and vehicular crossing
 Natural sub base and class B masonry (has provisional rate)

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 Road Condition Survey and Cost Update

Act. Code Description Unit Quantity Unit Price Amount (ETB)

Construction, repair and maintenance of temporary diversions and accommodating Km 40.00 200,000.00 8,000,000.00
15.01 traffic
121 Culvert Clearing M3 553.90 100.00 55,390.00
122 Ditch clearing (manual) M3 14,851.24 20.00 297,024.86
123 Repair Erosion Damage (Selected Fill) M3 210.00 100.00 21,000.00
124 Repair Erosion Damage (Rock Fill) M3 550.00 320.00 176,000.00
125 Mortared Masonry Repair M3 400.00 1,000.00 400,000.00
126 Dry Masonry Repair M3 450.00
127 Gabion Structures M3 14,960.00 1,200.00 17,952,000.00
214 Asphalt patching (Hot mini mix) M3 1,780.01 5,300.00 9,434,053.00
313 Asphalt Over lay M3 21,323.50 5,600.00 119,411,600.00
315 Bitumen Tack Coat Lt 43,648.40 45.00 1,964,178.00
314 Prime coat Lt 150,330.00 50.00 7,516,500.00
316 Pavement reconstruction (Aggregate Road base) M3 19,955.45 650.00 12,971,042.50
44.01 (a) Rock fill M3 35,548.90 280.00 2,217,600.00
42.03(a) Common Excavation to waste of pumped Road section M3 52,997.22 85.00 4,504,763.70
51.01 (c ) Natural Sub base M3 16,750.25 254.33 4,260,091.08
81.01 (c ) Granular Back fill M3 1,535.25 70.00 107,467.50
230 Ditch clearing (machine) Km 45.00 7,300.00 328,500.00
240 Shoulder Blading Km 20.00 2,500.00 50,000.00
241 Shoulder Rehabilitation M3 43,076.6 200.00 7,122,800.00
34.040a Paved water way M2 11,792.00 450.00 5,306,400.00
89.01 Class B Masonry M3 2,491.50 2,820.00 7,026,030.00
No
33.17 b (i&ii) Reinforced Concrete drain Cover 2,500.00

31.01 (a&b) Structural Excavation M 3

1,422.00 -
Day works 2,763,992.00

Sub-Total 211,886,432.64
VAT (15%) 31,782,964.90

Total 243,669,397.54

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 Cost of Rigid pavement

Act. No Activity Description Unit Quantity Rate Amount Remark

Rock fill
44.04(a) M3 7,525.00 505.24 3,801,931.00

C-30 JRCP (Concrete for Rigid pavement) M3 3,845.28 18,607,462.12

251 4,839.05

Reinforcement Bar (different bar size as per

Ton 76,377.51 6,553,953.70
the drawing) 85.81
253

Sub Total 28,963,346.82

VAT (15%) 4,344,502.02

Cost calculation is based on ERA own force unit

N.B. rate Grand Total 33,307,848.84

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 Project Pictures

Blocked Pipe at st. 271+500 ( Inlet) Blocked Pipe at st. 271+500 (Outlet)

Patching Failure at st. 283+210-283+350

Patching Failure at st. 281+100-281+400
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Shoulder scour@ 301+040 RHS Shoulder Scoure@301+190 LHS

Cracking and Deformation St. 325+400 Failure at St. 341+360-341+505

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Alligator Crack at st. 292+650-292+800

Scoured Shoulder at st. 284+000-284+090 LHS

Transverse Crack at st. 315+100 Longitudinal Crack at st. 315+900

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Silted side ditch @322+610 RHS Pipe closed by farmer at st. 324+200

Silted ditch at st. 366+580 -366+650 LHS Pothole at st. 366+300

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Deformation at St. 380+660-380+680 Deformation at St. 383+130-383+170

Blocked Pipe at st. 387+600 at Inlet Blocked Pipe at st 389+760 at Outlet

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Alligator crack and Rutting at st. 376+520 -376+580 Cumulated water due to blocking of pipe by farmers 384+200
(RHS)

Rutting and alligator crack at 397+700 Shoving at st 423+110 RHS

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Blocked pipe at st. 436+800 Crack and deformation at 436+800 LHS

Rutting and shoulder deformation at st. 440 +200 LHS Cracking, rutting and pothole at 441+500 RHS

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Bedding preparation for check dams at St. 359+350 LHS

Excavation for Gabion (clearing silt) at st. 376+200

Class B masonry Retaining wall/ check dam construction at St

Gabion structure at st. 376+340
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Providing access for traffic at st. 373+800 Ditch Clearing at St. 376+760 RHS

Ditch clearing by manual 378+100

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THANK YOU !!!

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