Highway construction for Kuala Terengganu bypass / Nur Shafira Amira Mohamed Zaidi

• Main Author: Mohamed Zaidi, Nur Shafira Amira
• Format: Monograph
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA UiTM,Perak 2022
• Subjects: Road and highway design; TH Building construction
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/92054/1/92054.PDF; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/92054/

Highway construction is one of the biggest infrastructure construction all around the world. This highway construction will bring lots of convenience especially to the users. The report in broad-spectrum contains lots of contents in which will be explain in detail about the highway construct that constructed by the main contractor, Iswarabena Sdn. Bhd. This report was conducted for the construction of Projek Membina Kuala Terengganu Bypass located at Bukit Bayas, Jalan Pasir Panjang, 21100 Kuala Terengganu. The content of all chapters is broadly explained, and it is constructed from the practical basis of the site work ended all months. The objectives for this report are to identify the procedure for highway construction and machineries and equipment used. It is also focus on observing the problems occurred and solutions taken to solve the problems. This paper focus point is about method statement for highway construction including UHPC-beam that have been applied for this Kuala Terengganu Bypass. There are eleven procedures for the highway construction which start from site clearance until quality control and assurance. Over 6 years of this construction development, there are many winding up, problems and suggestion occurred on the project that the company runs. The extension of time is the most crucial problems since the contractor will face the financial problems, but the client agrees to extend the project period under Extension of Time (EOT3). Also, the revise of drawing also caused a problem since it can cause confusion and will affect the work progress and all the staff.