The Reconstruction Fund for Areas Affected by Terrorist Operations achieves a 35% completion rate in the vital Hyundai Bridge rehabilitation project linking Salah al-Din Governorate to Anbar Governorate.
Rehabilitation work is continuing on the vital Hyundai Bridge by the Reconstruction Fund for Areas Affected by Terrorist Operations, which connects Baiji District in Salah al-Din Governorate to Anbar Governorate, with the aim of completing the project before the specified time period of (200) days due to the importance of this bridge in facilitating the movement of transportation, the passage of citizens, and the commercial movement between... Governorates and the fact that it is located above the Baghdad Mosul train railway.
Engineer Muthanna Mahmoud, director of the Fund’s branch in Salah al-Din Governorate, said that this bridge is one of the vital corridors due to the passage of trucks transporting loads of petroleum products to and from Anbar Governorate. It is being implemented with the financing and supervision of the Reconstruction Fund within the Food Security and Development Law, stressing that “the follow-up of the head of the Reconstruction Fund, Eng. Saad Amin Al-Jubouri for all projects had a major role in completing the projects and opening them with record durations and high specifications, adding, “The completion of this project will be within the timings specified in the concluded contract and in accordance with the Iraqi technical and standard specifications, and the completion rate has reached 35%,” explaining that many projects are being implemented in the governorate. Salah al-Din by the Fund and in various sectors to serve the citizen and increase the stability of the governorate.
As R. pointed out, Engineers Awam Qahtan, the project’s resident engineer from the roads and bridges of Salah al-Din Governorate, the beneficiary of the project, said that the Chinese Hyundai Bridge was completely destroyed in the first space during the period of the terrorist ISIS, adding, “The rehabilitation work included crushing and removing the rubble and then starting to pour the bridge’s joists, which consist of (6) joists for each space, with a length of (13) metres, indicating that the work also includes pouring the space and strengthening the first pillar in an engineering technical manner and a new method that we are working with for the first time in which the pillar is wrapped and strengthened to bear the weights of the trucks that pass over it, stressing that the work is continuing and in proportion. Good achievement using modern technical methods and specialized engineering expertise that achieve the required specifications.
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