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INFRASTRUCTURE

Innovations and sustainability
Zuari Bridge
are necessary for infrastructure
improvement. “Earlier, the
general practice was stone
pitching for slope protection”,
explained Joshi. “For stones
pitching you need to buy a quarry
and extract the stone by blasting.
It only generates very high carbon
footprints. We got a vendor from
Bangalore and he suggested we
use a biodegradable mat that
was laid on the slopes on which
sheets were spread and tufting
done. That was more effective
and environment friendly. It was
urban mobility in the capital The company is working on the something we started about 10
city. In Kuwait, Afcons delivered Mumbai-Pune Expressway Missing years ago.”
the South Surra Road Project, Link Project, a vital development Companies agree that the
the country’s largest urban project aimed at improving central budget for infrastructure
development project, while in connectivity between two of the is healthy. Most of the highway
Gabon, the company completed state’s most important cities by projects are on hybrid model and
a six km bypass road for the New bypassing the Khandala Ghat because of fierce competition,
Libreville International Airport, section and reducing the distance EPC contracts are hard to come
underscoring its global expertise. of the expressway by over six by. The biggest challenges
Other notable projects as per kilometres. In the Maldives, as continue to be land acquisition
and labour shortage, given that
Afcons include the Meydan part of the Addu City Roads multiple mega projects are being
Racecourse in Dubai, which Project, Afcons is constructing implemented simultaneously
provided connectivity to the 110 km of road works and across the country. The result
world’s largest racecourse, the comprehensive drainage systems. of overcoming these challenges
Jewel of Creek development in The company shared that it is also and complexities however is
Dubai, and the Mina Salman working on projects in Gabon, sweet, with the reward being the
Interchange in Bahrain. Bangladesh and Mozambique. satisfaction of a job well done.

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