Mott MacDonald, headquartered in the United Kingdom, has been appointed to carry out the detailed design for a project in Dominica that will rehabilitate a 20km stretch of road badly damaged by a tropical storm.
Tropical Storm Erika caused significant damage to the Loubiere to Bagatelle road in 2015. A grant from the UK’s Department for International Development has been provided to Dominica through the Caribbean Development Bank.
The Ministry of Public Works & Ports project will see the construction of nine new bridges, the rehabilitation of the road in landslide areas, road safety improvements and upgrades to existing road drainage infrastructure. The scheme will also include assessments and design of foreshore protection, including slope protection measures along the Dubuque Cliffs.
Mott MacDonald will assess the condition of existing infrastructure such as bridges, pavements, drainage and earthworks, as well as provide the detailed design for all necessary civil and structural engineering works as part of the road rehabilitation. The consultancy will also undertake environmental and social impact assessments and prepare extreme weather, environmental and social management plans, as well as contract bidding documentation.
Tom Hickson, Mott MacDonald’s project manager, said: “In addition to repairing damage caused by the tropical storm, these rehabilitation works will provide climate-resilient infrastructure to support the economic and social development of the communities along the road network.”
The Loubiere to Bagatelle road rehabilitation project is due to be completed in 2019.
Ras/putin hat was for expatat anglais?
If Dominica was still a colony under Britain we would be better off. Our country is in ruins but at least our prime minister and his cronies rich anyway.
So what’s the point? This is what all U politicians here and in Africa do when allu get into government anyway.
in-fighting and never get anywhere.
some ppl just don’t about development in this country …they put politics in any and everything .that is sad though …
I am happy to hear the the work will be done by people (from UK) who know what they are doing. Thank God that the Chinese are not in charge this time because they always do terrible jobs.
Why not give the job to our local Engineers ????.. smh
The British are paying and he who pays the bill calls the tune.
I hope that the Mott MacDonald Consultancy will do a better job than the overseas consultant that recommended dumping millions of tons of spoil from Red Gully alongside the road at Antrim.
He claimed that he was putting it there to stabilize the road (sic) whereas in fact he set in motion one of the worst man-made environmental blunders in the history of the Caribbean.
Roger, I agree that was, and still is an unmitigated disaster but must disagree that the culprit was a consultant. It was a carpetbeggar.
I am pleased to read this article but need to voice the concerns of the residents of Fortune, Eggleston, Giraudel and Castle Comfort. This loop road needs immediate and urgent attention (sooner, rather than later).
With the heavy rainfall that has been a constant for many months now, there are pot holes than can now be referred to as craters. Drainage is poor and in some sections non existent.
Drivers have to take quick decisions as to which hole they will not drop into. There is evidence that at least two (2) sections of the road between Giraudel and Castle Comfort will collapse any day now if the rain continues. We are still in the hurricane season.
Please Minister of Communications and Works, and your technical team, take a drive on this loop road and I implore you to give it your most urgent attention.
N. B. Filling the holes with cement is the biggest mistake ever made as cement and colas don’t mesh.
This is not funny at all.
Can you believe that there is a gang on the Giraudel/Castle Comfort road filling some of the holes with cement with all of the rain that is falling?
What a waste of taxpayers money, or is it CBI$’s. Regardless of the source, it is a waste of money.
Will Dominican professionals ever get an opportunity to design something? Was the design contract tendered and all our Dominican engineers, at home and abroad, failed to qualify? In engineering, local knowledge is key to arriving at the best design. The people on the ground know best the most vulnerable areas, so it’s mind boggling to understand why a British company is awarded the contract to design a road in Dominica in 2017.
I should not be making a case for local engineers who appear to be satisfied in playing second fiddle. Just imagine if our local engineers would come up with an innovative design to get from Loubiere to Grand Bay or from Scotts Head to Grand Bay through a two mile tunnel? After all, in most major cities all traffic is underground through the metro.
Maybe my thinking is too advanced for our leaders but with land slides, rock falls, road edge collapse and all type of tragic circumstances, there should be a more innovative thinking for road design in Dominica.
A grant from the UK’s Department for International Development was given to Dominica for this project. Most likely, the government probably had no choice, but to use a British consulting firm to undertake this project.
The British are paying, so they decide who gets the work and I am pleased because that is less change of syphoning off funds for friends and family.
Roosie are you making a contribution from ur grave? If so I have a request. Send the Chinese and all their poor merchandise home.
Roosie, I don’t know what you been drinking or smoking, Can I have some of it please ? Anyway having said that If you or anyone else think Dominican road engineers can design or build better roads and bridges better than the British you lots So-called Workers supporters must be stupid and mad.
Loubiere road again fixing? What happen to Kingshill road………?
Kingshill on the road to nowhere?
Laborites where is Skerro ? no body knows he is telling everybody it is not you all dam business even thou he is your prime minister, so go figure this shit out DOM IN THE CAN.
All you have to do is make Skerro come and live in your neighborhood. Garbage will be collected every week and road maintained. First thing that happen when he moved to Mone Daniel is a brand new concrete road laid to his residence, so make friends with Skerro. This is Africa.
For a moment I was wondering if Medard was changing course as LL & his other cabal went to China .As Medard left China for where?? He reverts to the motherland lol. Then upon re-reading I saw it was a grant from the UK. Otherwise a container of little yellow men would appear on our shore with cheap building material to surface beautifully the 20 KM of road only to crumble by December.
So here we go like the Chinese game ping pong China to motherland to China to Motherland to UWP to Neo-labour to UWP-DFP to??????? who knows dictated by China. It’s a real comes(all of them) The song You spin me right round -Like a record by dead or alive .Leftists gone right & extreme right goes right.
Lots of progressives of the 70’s sold out. Good Luck DA !
I don’t care a thing about road design at this time. Right now what I am concerned about is the whereabouts of PM Roosevelt Skerrit, who disappeared since Sunday August 6, 2017. Why is no one telling us where our PM is, even if they don’t want to give details? This is very worrying to me and other laborites, especially when one thinks of the tragic fatal accident that took place in his home village that killed five of his constituents. I mean the accident took place around 7 AM that morning, and if PM left state that same day, if he had taken an early flight he could not have been too far to return. He didn’t and was on schedule to give a special address during the candle light vigil, and he didn’t show up. Going back to the destruction of Erika, one will remember that he was also out with NG Lap-Seng, and on his way back to DA, he got stock and had to get a helicopter to come home and Doc. Darroux went to the site after 6PM that day. Why is PM and our parl rep ignored us?
Where your P.M gone??? He gone to hell..???
Good, he will have plenty of company and no heating bills.
Where your P.M gone? Well he gone to hell. ??
@ My father above, Ya man send out a search party and net you might catch up with him bloody idiot !
You not a labourite don’t lie. You are a uwp supporter.
You seem to be looking for another talking point. You really want to know where our PM gone? Well he is in the US. Give Rijok and Matt the information.
Will it be cbi funded? Will there be an exaggerated celebration at it’s opening like the Bajan bridge in Roseau? Will a website be developed at it’s birth just for name suggestions? Will there be demonic signs placed therein to exalt Satan? Will this design suggest a path where you ride on the edge of cliffs with weak guard rails and roads cut so steep that you’d require a v20 cylinder engine to climb it and immortal breaks at decline? Factors to consider. Will these road habilitators learn from past errors
Please read the news item carefully. I will be funded by the U.K. government through the Caribbean Development Bank, not our CBI programme.
@ Floridian Dieasspoorer. Evidently, you can read but do you understand what you read? The project will be funded with a grant from the United Kingdom; you are asking if it will be CBI funded. People like you and some others do not like positive news once it is coming from the labour party government. I have news for you; there are many more positive news in the pipeline.
I have news for you; there are many more positive news in the pipeline.
Look like you drank the UWP coolade from back in the day. That was UWP’s Tim Minister of finance ( now in Private sector from rolling up his trousers and going back home from where he’s from originally. THE PIPELINE madam speaker.
Check this, the heavy rains will block the pipelines EXPATAT -SWEET POTATO.
From your comments it would appear that you have no idea about what is going on in Dominica. Those of us who really take a genuine interest in this country would know that the project is being funded y the UK government. You guys in the diaspora who pretend to be so patriotic are always trying to find things to criticize.
Instead of being thankful for this bit of good news, here you go with your negativity.