By BUUMBA CHIMBULUCONTRACTORS should avoid using short-cuts in their works because they risk constructing dangerous structures such as the Alick Nkata Flyover Bridge in Lusaka, engineering consultant, Vitalis Mooya has said.Mr Mooya, a civil engineer with a bias towards construction, said what was happening along Alick Nkhata was a scandal.He stressed that there should be no short-cuts on any construction site in the country.“Engineering Institution of Zambia has already condemned that bridge. All these roads, bridges there are specifications and standards to follow. If you do not do that, then you experience what you are talking about (demolishing),” Mr Mooya said an interview.He said even the client of the project, in this case the Government, should play a role because, “the best engineer without funding, is useless.”Asked about the needed elementary specifications and standards in constructing a flyover, Mr Mooya said: “It is the width. It has to be wide for two vehicles to pass […]
‘ALICK NKATA FLYOVER BRIDGE IS A SCANDAL’
