Heritage Cases

Royal HaskoningDHV have been appointed by the KZN DoT to design and manage the construction for the proposed Rehabilitation of Provincial Road P50-1. This project forms part of the Empangeni Road Rehabilitation and covers the rehabilitation of P50-1 from km17,34 to km26,00 (Eshowe) within the uMlalazi Local Municipality, which forms part of the King Cetshwayo District Municipality (DC28), KwaZulu-Natal. Main Road P50-1 is located northwest of Eshowe in the Empangeni Region, KwaZulu-Natal. The road is 26km long and starts at km0,00 at the intersection with the P47-5 (R66) and proceeds in a northwest direction towards Nkandla and ends at km26,00. The road forms the main link between Eshowe and Nkandla, with many heavy vehicles making use of this road to transfer goods from Eshowe to Nkandla and Kranskop. The road also serves communities and social facilities (i.e. schools and clinics). The route varies in surface width from 10m wide (km17,34 to km22,00) to 8.5m wide (km22,00 to 26,00). The Rehabilitation entails the widening of the road surface on both sides from 8.5m to 10m. The single carriageway 10m wide surfaced road with surfaced shoulders will be trimmed on the surfaced road edges with gravel rounding’s which are 1,0m and 0,5m wide in fill and cut conditions respectively including adequate stormwater drainage facilities. The rehabilitation entails the widening of the road to make provision for the increased roadway width, together with the strengthening of the upper 200mm of the existing pavement. The existing finish road level will then be raised by 150mm by constructing new overlying base pavement layers and surface wearing course over the entire length of the works. The existing prefabricated culverts beneath the road will be extended to conform to the widened roadway profile and the inlet and outlet structures re-constructed. Where necessary, open storm water drainage systems will be improved. It is currently anticipated that 4 such culverts will require extension and reconstruction along the 8 km rehabilitated section of the road.