Feasibility Study of the Karaganda - Astana (Akmola) Road Project (223 km)
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Name of associated firm :

Joint Stock Company "Kazdorproject", Almaty, Kazakhstan

Project Location within Country:

Karaganda to Astana

Start Date:

July 1998

Completion Date:

November 1998

Project Description

Ministry of Transport & Communications (MOTC) undertook the project for road improvement that was funded by the Islamic Development Bank (IDB). It is part of the major road link between new Capital, Astana in the north and commercial city of Almaty in the Southeast. It begins at the southern outskirt of the industrial city, Karaganda and ends at the southern outskirt of Astana. It is an existing 2 and 4-lane facility with AC pavement and treated shoulders on either side. It is 223 km long road section. It needed rehabilitation and improvement. Project preparation has two phases, i.e., feasibility study; and detailed design / tender documentation. A feasibility study is complete, which analysed scenarios, including bypasses along Karaganda & Osakarovka, and an overpass at railway crossing near Vishnevka.

Services

Economic Feasibility Study
Preliminary Design

ECIL undertook following tasks for the above work at (1) & (2)

Road & structure condition survey
Engineering survey consisting of traverse survey, topographic survey, and cross section levelling
Traffic & axle load survey and traffic forecast
Road roughness survey
Benkelman beam deflection study
Hydrological investigations & study
Soil Investigations
Geotechnical & material investigations
Prepared preliminary design & preliminary cost estimates
Prepared economic feasibility which includes the derivation of Benefit Cost Ratio (BCR), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Net Present Value (NPV) and ratio of project cost for the first year benefits of the project to demonstrate the economic and technical feasibility, including testing the results on HDM model
Feasibility report