ADDIS ABABA – Addis Ababa City Administration said that it has been carrying out various activities to complete mega projects as promptly and efficiently as possible keeping the set schedule.
City Mega Projects Construction Office Director, Addis Aregaye told The that the city has been carrying out various activities aiming at accomplishing projects under construction in the city in time. Providing materials like steel, cement, and foreign exchange is one of the some activities of the city administration to avoid constraints compromising the sector though the support is not adequate enough.
According to the Director, Addis Ababa has many mega projects under the Eagle Hills like LA Gare One Construction project, one of the three projects on which the city administration is actively working as a real estate scheme.
Addis Tomorrow and Addis Africa International Convention and Exhibition Center are others.
He said, “The Eagle Hills is merely operating on 11 hectares at present though it possesses 36 hectare of land to run real estate. The city administration is thus working carefully to realize the well establishment of mega projects. ”
Project Manager of Rama Construction under La Gare One Construction, Yohannes Getachew on his part said that the Rama construction allocated some 12 million USD to accomplish the construction of apartments in 670 working days. The main activities of this project are framing the skeleton of the construction, identifying the building with category, working on the exterior of the building, decorating the landscape of the construction environment, and the like.
According to the Manager, the LA Gare One construction is well underway hitting ten floors out of the plan 21 storey one, and includes entertainment center as per the schedule. The construction was however interrupted by a lack of cement for three months. It is hard to minimize cement challenges though the government has tried its best as the problem becomes very wide, he said.
He further noted that LA Gare One Construction comprises 192 apartments, 260 parks, and conference halls and lies at 4,000-square-meters of land. The construction also employs international quality technology improvement such as concrete grade quality of C-50 (world class quality) with self-compact technology to help it avoid earthquake threat. The LA Gare One construction is creating over 700 jobs.
BY MESERET BEHAILU
THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2022
