Rendel was appointed as the Egyptian Government’s consultants for the design and construction of a 977m long, 21m wide cable-stayed road bridge, with a main span of 250m, over the River Nile, approximately 10km down river from the two Aswan dams. The bridge is in a seismically active region and required major river foundations.

The 1km long dual-lane road crossing of the Nile comprises a 500m cable-stayed bridge and approach viaducts. The bridge is in a seismically active region and requires major river foundations. The cable-stayed bridge is a post-tensioned concrete box girder segmented by a mono-plane stay system. The approaches comprise a twin concrete box girder bridge

Rendel prepared the tender documents for the procurement of the capital works under a design and build form of contract to Egyptian law. In association with a local consultant (Arab Consulting Engineers (ACE)) Rendel led the three project phases:

• Phase I outline design, preparation of bidding documents and specifications
• Phase II tender prequalification and evaluation
• Phase III check of contractor’s detailed design

Rendel’s services to the client included specialist advice and the drafting of project specific design criteria in relation to cable-stays, seismic engineering, wind and temperature loading and traffic loading. We were also responsible for the technical, commercial and contractual evaluation of tenders and the making of recommendations to the client. The detailed design of the cable-stayed bridge included ship impact and seismic analysis as well as carrying out a concrete time-dependent analysis of the cable-stayed bridge and a check of the casting curves. Rendel also provided expert technical advice and supervision in relation to the cable-stayed bridge.

The creation of a dry port, a Value-Added Logistics Centre (VALC) near the 6th October City, west of Cairo, to be connected by rail to the Port of El Dekhila Port and the Great Port of Alexandria (GPA) container hub. The VALC is planned to be the centre of a state-of-the-art facility which will combine all types of logistics/warehousing activities (refrigerated stores, bonded and non-bonded warehouses, etc.) It will allow the transfer of part of the container traffic transiting these two ports to the dry port for customs clearance and thus relieve congestion at these two existing ports and reduce other negative environmental and social externalities linked to the present movement of this traffic by road vehicles.

Services Provided by Rendel:

Traffic Review Study and Traffic Demand Study forecasting likely use of the dry port for several types of container traffic and likely throughput of containerised cargo transiting the dry port. Traffic Impact Study. Port Operations study within the Dry Port Area based on traffic forecasting, producing layouts of dry port appropriate cargo handling equipment with development cost estimates, including cost of civil construction, cargo handling equipment, manpower and maintenance.

Review of railway operations linking the two locations.

A project by Rendel, an Ingerop subsidiary.