A contract signed with the Ivory Coast Economic Infrastructure Ministry
Using the financing provided under the terms of the Debt Reduction & Development Contract (C2D) between France and Ivory Coast, RAZEL-BEC signed a contract as a member of a consortium with the Ivory Coast Economic Infrastructure Ministry on 21 March 2018 to reinforce the Bouaké-Ferkéssedougou section of the North Road.
The work on this 95km-long section mainly consists, over a period of 22 months, in:
- recycling the existing road course with added cement and aggregate materials to create a 25cm foundation course (257,000m3),
- laying a 0/20 bituminous aggregate base course (94,000m3) and a 0/10 bituminous concrete surface course (720,000m2),
- installing roadside and under-road water channels (144,000lm of concrete-lined earth ditches)
- supplying and installing road equipment.