CONFIDENTIAL PRIVATE INFORMATION International Forum on Life-Cycle Maintenance and Management Technologies for Smart Highway System 2 Highway Challenges A Holistic Approach to Road Construction and Environmental Impact, and the Role of Ecologically Based Techniques in Planning and Design Authors: Steven B Finnie and Harold T M Insley • Steven B Finnie Associate Director, Pavement, Trackbed and Materials Consultancy URS Scott Wilson Ltd, Nottingham, United Kingdom • Harold T M Insley Associate Director, Head of Environmental Services URS Scott Wilson, Hong Kong
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International Forum on Life-Cycle Maintenance and Management
Technologies for Smart Highway System
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Highway Challenges
A Holistic Approach to Road Construction and Environmental Impact, and the Role of Ecologically Based Techniques in Planning and Design
Authors: Steven B Finnie and Harold T M Insley
• Steven B Finnie
Associate Director, Pavement, Trackbed and Materials Consultancy
URS Scott Wilson Ltd, Nottingham, United Kingdom
• Harold T M Insley
Associate Director, Head of Environmental Services
URS Scott Wilson, Hong Kong
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Contents of Presentation
• Halsema Highway Case Study
• Typical Slope Problems
• Design of Remedial Works
• Environmental Aspects
• Examples of other Mountain Road Projects
• Typical Design Features
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Highway Challenges
Theme of paper: Mountain Highways in Developing
Countries
Halsema Highway History
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Highway Challenges
• Road at 2,000m elevation and above
• Typical rainfall 2,400mm per year
• Partially paved mountain road damaged by earthquake and typhoons in1990s
• Richter 7.8 magnitude quake in July 1990 seriously damaged road, and Hyatt Hotel in Baguio collapsed killing 80 people
• Damage to road not immediately repaired
• Significant typhoons caused major erosion damage
• Consultants appointed in 1996 for feasibility study to rehabilitate highway
• World Bank funded
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Major Arterial Highway serving Region
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Highway Challenges
• Halsema Highway runs from Baguio City to Bontoc to Banaue (rice terraces)
• Baguio City regional capital
• Major vegetable growing area
• Vegetables trucked down to outskirts of Baguio in small trucks
• Transferred to 10 wheeler trucks or bigger for transport to Manila (capital city)
• Construction on first section from La Trinidad to Mount Data started in 2000
Feasibility Study, Rehabilitation Design and Construction Supervision
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Highway Challenges
• 180 km long Halsema Highway links Philippines summer capital of Baguio with famous “ Banaue rice terraces” World Heritage Site considered to be more than 2,000 years old
• Road crosses some of most difficult topography in South East Asia – main ridge of Central Cordillera runs approximately north-south
• Central Cordillera: steep, knife-edged and underlain by highly fractured, faulted and weathered materials
• Scott Wilson carried out feasibility study, design and construction supervision of geotechnical works
• Scope of services included geotechnical, geological, bio-engineering, hydrological, environmental, ecological and social impact aspects
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Halsema Highway, Philippines
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Highway Challenges
• Rural highway in high rainfall, seismically active mountainous
area
• Carried out feasibility study for rehabilitation including geotechnical, hydrological,
environmental and social impact investigations
• Although Halsema Highway is a major road, it is classed as a “low-cost” road for purposes of this
rehabilitation, which restricted scope of investigations (i.e. limited ground investigation) and scope of rehabilitation work
Halsema Highway, Philippines
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Highway Challenges
• Landscape very fragile, and highly
susceptible to erosion caused by intense storm runoff and destabilising earthquakes
• Programme of aerial photography
carried out
• Followed by field mapping, engineering geological inspection and the sinking of boreholes
• Initial Environmental Assessment carried out
• Innovative bio-engineering designs
needed to stabilise slopes
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One of “Most Dangerous Roads in World”
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Highway Challenges
Typical Slope Problems
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Highway Challenges
• Failure of slopes on to road (rock falls, debris slides etc)
• Failure of slopes below road
Leading to loss of road edge
(including wall foundation failure)
• Failure of entire road formation
• Debris flows & slope erosion
Technical Assistance for Risk Assessment and Management D2
282800 in 1997
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Large Landslide below Highway
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Highway Challenges
Unstable Slopes above Highway
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Highway Challenges
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“Temporary” Structures to Maintain Access
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Highway Challenges
• After earthquake and typhoons in 1990s access along highway provided with mixture of “temporary measures”including Bailey Bridges, and temporary diversions
• Photo of crossing of “saddle” where roadway failed on both sides of highway
Design of Remedial Measures
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Highway Challenges
Integrated Approach Required
•Geotechnical engineering measures
•Drainage engineering measures and erosion control
•Slope protection and bio-engineering measures
•Environmental protection
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Typical Rehabilitation
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Highway Challenges
Halsema Highway
Typical Major Rehabilitation
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Highway Challenges
Halsema Highway
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Integration of Bio-Engineering with Geotechnical Design
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Failures and Erosion below Road Bench
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Highway Challenges
Pre-Construction
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Rehabilitation below Road Bench
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Works Substantially Complete
Masonry Wall to Support Road Bench
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Drainage and Stream Protection Measures
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Highway Challenges
Above Road Retaining Structure
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Highway Challenges
Completion of shotcrete &
construction of above-road
retaining structures
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Environmental Aspects
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Highway Challenges
• Environmental Impacts related to Heritage Sites and National Park
• Construction Impacts
• Traffic Related Impacts
• Social Impacts
Environmental Impacts – Heritage Sites and National Park
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Highway Challenges
• Photo shows rice terraces near Banaue
• Heritage site
• Road also passes through National Park
• World Bank required impacts on Heritage Site and National Park minimised as far as practical
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Construction Impacts
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Highway Challenges
• Noise (generated by construction plant)
• Dust
• Disposal of excavated material
• Excavation of borrow areas
• Water quality impacts, and erosion
• Social impacts from clearance, etc.
• Impact of construction on traffic using road
Traffic Related Impacts
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Highway Challenges
• Improved road surface, previously unpaved, now concrete pavement, results in increased vehicle speeds
• Increased speeds result in greater potential for accidents involving excessive speeds
• Accidents as a result of “blind” corners, pedestrians on roads, boulders from slopes above causing obstacle on road, fog banks
• Mountain road creates opportunity for major accidents with vehicles crashing off road, and causing many fatalities (especially buses)
• Limited budget for road side barrier but small up stand wall included
• Road humps to reduce speed
• Increased axle loads
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Social Impact Assessment
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Highway Challenges
• Clearance of encroachments into road reserve
• Some acquisition of agricultural land for minor alignment improvements
• Socio-Economic Surveys carried out
• Resettlement Action Plan prepared
• Community engagement
Examples of Other Mountain Road Projects
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Highway Challenges
• Nepal: Prithvi Highway
• Nepal: Third Road Improvement Project
• Tajikistan: Shagon-Zigar Road
• Bhutan: Road Network Study
• Ethiopia: Koombolcha – Mekane Salem – GundewienRoad
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Prithvi Highway, Nepal
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Highway Challenges
Flood Damage Assessment, Study Report, Design of
Remedial Works and Supervision
• Geotechnical examination, inventory of flood damage
• Recommendations for and prioritisation of reinstatement and further erosion protection
works
• Remedial, reinstatement, and protection measures
• Design/supervision/ contract
management services for damage repair, contract management and supervision
Third Road Improvement Project, Nepal
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Highway Challenges
• Improvement and rehabilitation
of 350km of rural access road to
bitumen standard in mountainous
and flat terrain
• Economic screening study
• Typical design details, and
design checks
• Procurement and construction
supervision
Improvement and Rehabilitation of Rural
Roads
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Shagon-Zigar Road, Tajikistan
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Highway Challenges
• Situated along border with Afghanistan,
alignment through foothills of Pamirs and
bordered by Pyanj River to east
• Alignment traverses extremely rugged,
mountainous terrain
• Challenges to engineering team included
rockfall from natural slopes, extreme
topography and weather conditions and
sensitive ground conditions disturbed by
pre-contract blasting and seismic activity
Feasibility, Design, Supervision
Road Network Study, Bhutan
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Highway Challenges
• Survey and analysis of typical slope
stability problems
• Slope maintenance manual
• Economic evaluation of proposed
improvements
• Environmental Impact Assessment
of proposed improvements
• Road improvement strategies
Technical Assistance Project to Prepare Prioritised Road
Improvement Programme
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Kombolcha – Mekane Salem – Gundewien Road, Ethiopia