Project to welcome the Provincial Party Congress

Along the Thu Bon River, standing from the Dien Quang commune bank looking across to the Dien Hong commune bank (Dien Ban town), Van Ly bridge has gradually completed its shape. The construction contractor, Dat Phuong Group Joint Stock Company, only needs to construct the K0 segment of the T2 pier to complete the lower part. On the Dien Hong commune side, right next to the M2 bridge pier, because the site has not been handed over, the contractor continues to rent agricultural land from local people to install the approach span beams and has poured concrete for the ground slab and guardrail. At the piers in the middle of the river, the contractor is installing a casting truck to prepare to cast the bridge span.

According to engineer Dao Hong Ngoc - a site technical officer of Dat Phuong Group Joint Stock Company, the Van Ly bridge and approach road project started construction on September 16, 2023. In the past, the contractor divided the construction into 3 teams on the site. Including, 1 team for girder casting, 1 team preparing to cast the bridge span, 1 team making guardrails and bridge deck.

Currently, the unit is increasing the workforce for the cantilever section. It is expected that by mid-December 2024, the cantilever section of the spans in the middle of the river will be completed. In locations where the bridge deck has been poured, workers will continue to make guardrails.

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Up to this point, the construction volume of the Van Ly bridge project has exceeded 98 billion VND. The construction value of the Van Ly bridge alone is 165 billion VND, so the volume value has reached about 65%. Engineer Dao Hong Ngoc added that according to the original plan, the Van Ly bridge project and the approach road will be completed in March 2026.

However, the provincial leaders chose this as a project to celebrate the 23rd Provincial Party Congress (term 2025 - 2030), so it is necessary to speed up the construction progress, in time to reach the finish line in September 2025. For Van Ly bridge, this is the most important item of the project that is ahead of schedule, and will be basically completed by early 2025 at the latest.

Hand over agricultural land before September 30

Engineer Bui Huy Phu - an officer of the Road Engineering Center 3 said that the center is a joint venture contractor for consulting and supervising with CTEC Construction Consulting Joint Stock Company. Every day, the Road Engineering Center 3 arranges 2 people to work at the Van Ly bridge construction site. If there is a construction site for the approach road, the unit needs to arrange 3 more workers. However, the construction site for the approach road 1, the section from Dien Hong commune to Dai Hoa commune (Dai Loc) and the approach road 2 through Dien Hong commune have not been cleared. As for the approach road 2, there are 3 main critical points on the route, which are 3 small bridges that also do not have construction sites, mainly related to agricultural land, gardens and ponds.

Engineer Bui Huy Phu added that the three bridges mentioned above are small bridges but the construction time is much longer than digging and filling the roadbed. With the rainy season approaching, bridge construction can still be done, but road construction involves transporting soil and compacting the roadbed, so it will be very difficult to implement.

To resolve the above problems, at a recent meeting, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Tran Nam Hung requested the People's Committee of Dai Loc district and Dien Ban town to actively direct the completion of compensation, support, and handover of the entire agricultural land area to the investor to organize construction before September 30, 2024. In addition, in the first quarter of 2025, the two localities must hand over the remaining land area related to residential land.

Working with the leaders of the Provincial People's Committee recently, the Quang Nam Provincial Traffic Construction Investment Project Management Board (investor) said that the 2024 capital plan allocated for the Van Ly Bridge and Access Road project is 18 billion VND, and this budget has been fully disbursed. In order to pay off the remaining debt as well as speed up the progress of Van Ly Bridge and Access Road in particular, contributing to increasing the disbursement rate of public investment capital in general, the investor has proposed that the Provincial People's Committee transfer resources from projects that are difficult to "spend" all their capital. At the same time, the province has submitted a document to the Government requesting to supplement the 2024 capital plan from the central budget reserve, or allocate the 2024 capital plan from the provincial budget...