Rehabilitation of Main Road 240 (R399) between Vredenburg and Paternoster.

About the Project

We were appointed on 8 October 2018 by the Road Network Management Branch, Department of Transport and Public Works, Western Cape Government to rebuild MR240 between Vredenburg and Paternoster.

The contract commenced on 10 January 2019 and was completed on 16 May 2020. Three 24-hour stop-and-go sections were in place on the 13km of road enabling us to build the road in half widths. The new design realigned the road horizontally and vertically. Rock was present in one of the deeper cuttings and had to be blasted with dynamite.

Facts:

• 208 local labour works opportunities were created.
• Over 21 260 man-days were achieved using local labour.
• The opportunity to partake in various skills development training courses was given to a total of 82 people
• R7 061 232,76 was spent on emerging contractor development, using local enterprises.
• 62 000m3 of material was used for fill.
• 23 000m3 of G7 (U-SSG) was imported and built.
• 22 000m3 of G5 Subbase was imported and chemically stabilised to a C4 layer.
• 20 000m3 of G4 was imported to build the final base layer.
• 115 000m2 bituminous single seal and slurry (Cape Seal) was built using 20mm roadstone, (coarse to medium grade) slurry layer and spray-grade bitumen emulsion of Class SC-E2.