Why is the highway section of Vinh Hao?

Present at the project these days, we recognize that the amount of work is still very large, especially many kilometers are still short of backfill. There is a length of about 700 m according to the design height that needs to be filled in meters, but still waiting for 9,000 m3 of backfill. On the construction site, hundreds of machines and equipment are waiting for the source of materials, plus the adverse weather in the past few days due to heavy rain cannot be constructed.

Mr. Pham Quoc Huy, Director of Vinh Hao – Phan Thiet Project Management Board, said that the shortage of backfill materials at the project has occurred since the beginning of project implementation. The project’s demand is about 9 million m3 of embankment, but after more than 1 year of construction, there is still a shortage of nearly 2.5 million m3. The source of backfill materials depends on the locality, while the material mines according to specific mechanisms are still facing problems. Although Resolution 60/NQ-CP and Resolution 133/NQ-CP have provided a specific mechanism for mining licensing, in reality, the procedures are not reduced but still have to follow the prescribed order, only switching from auction. the premium price directly to the contractor. The shortage of backfill land greatly affects the project progress.

“According to the plan, 4 mines will be put into operation for the project in March and the remaining 2 mines will be added in Ham Tri commune, Ham Thuan Bac district, which will be put into operation before April 15. However, As of April 3, no mines have been exploited yet,” said Mr. Pham Quoc Huy.

A construction contractor on Vinh Hao – Phan Thiet expressway said that due to the lack of foundation materials, the construction unit had to divide into several groups to do small items, taking advantage of the meager amount of on-site materials to pour the foundation. road. In the past week, the unit has appointed a Deputy Director and a number of brothers to directly work at the Department of Natural Resources and Environment – Land Registration Office of Binh Thuan province to promote the completion of mining procedures. Khieng River with the hope that it will be finished by the end of the week. However, by the end of the week, it is still not completed. There is still the process of paying land tax, signing contracts, issuing books, building mines and notifying agencies of new exploitation. Thus, if done quickly, the contractor may take at least another week to have the soil back to the construction site. Therefore, this contractor proposes to Binh Thuan Provincial People’s Committee to further speed up the procedures for material extraction in some mines to ensure the set schedule and the procedure still takes a long time, going through many steps… in when the project is very urgent.

Talking to reporters at the construction site of package XL-04, a representative of Vietnam Construction and Import-Export Corporation (Vinaconex) – the construction unit of this package said that the critical path (difficulty) has been determined. main towel) of the package. Currently, the contractor is performing the main workload as committed, the next time will focus on the critical roads to break the progress. Recently, the unit has increased many machines and equipment and in the near future will carry out the transfer of the volume of the units, which are weak or slow in speeding up the progress. The contractor is actively carrying out land mining procedures to speed up the embankment construction and is determined to complete all work items on schedule as in the contract signed with the investor.

“In order to solve the problem of embankment, the contractor Vinaconex is taking advantage of the source of stone dug in Chan Rong mountain area to grind and use the embankment to supply about 2,000 m3/day. However, the output is not much and still has to be maintained. waiting for the licensed land mine.Hopefully in the first week of April the mines will complete the procedures to exploit because we are very impatient when we have added a few hundred equipment, but are waiting for land with a fee of about 2 million VND/equipment/day”, shared Vinaconex representative.

Regarding ground clearance, a representative of the Project Management Board 7 informed that the most difficult thing today is to completely solve the overlapping area of ​​about 300m between the Suoi Mang – Cay Ca canal project and the Vinh Long expressway project. Hao – Phan Thiet. The delay in settlement greatly affects the progress of the expressway project.

In a recent meeting with the People’s Committee of Binh Thuan province, Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyen Ngoc Dong acknowledged the drastic direction of the leaders of the Provincial People’s Committee over the past time, so the mining of embankment has also solved some difficulties. towel for the project. For the remaining 2.46 million m3 of backfill soil, relevant parties will closely coordinate with relevant departments and agencies to complete the procedures and promptly put them into operation. At the same time, priority should be given to the immediate handling of Song Khieng mine (543,180 m3) because of the very large volume for the XL-04 package. The mines that have submitted the procedures include: Ham Can, Ham Tri, Hon Lup also need to speed up the procedures and the contractor prepares the conditions so that when the land lease license is granted, the procedures for land acquisition will be carried out as soon as possible.

To solve the problem of embankment as well as the progress of projects in this area, the Department of Construction Management and Quality of Traffic Works (Ministry of Transport) has appointed a working group located in the province. Binh Thuan to support the Project Management Boards.

Another arising problem was also mentioned by the contractors, that in the process of the contractor negotiating with the people to buy back the land area in the mining development planning, some people agree to sell, others do not. Therefore, the contractor’s representative recommends parallel implementation as both carrying out procedures and allowing exploitation, wherever the land can be purchased, deployed there, not because of an individual but affecting the whole area.

Ms. Phan Thi Xuan Thu, Deputy Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Binh Thuan province, said that the locality tries very hard to solve problems related to these key projects, and the time to complete procedures is also greatly reduced. a lot of.

In the latest report of Project Management Board 7 (Ministry of Transport – the investor of Vinh Hao – Phan Thiet expressway project) sent to the Ministry of Transport, the value of construction output of the whole project until the end of the project. March is 1,836.03/6,065.09 billion VND, reaching 30.27%; compared with the accumulated plan must reach 2,557/6,065.09 billion dong, equivalent to 42.16%, 11.89% behind, equivalent to 648.38 billion dong. The reason is said to be that some contractors have not focused enough resources on machinery, equipment, materials and serious lack of backfill materials.

“The road embankment work is still slow in all bidding packages, reaching only 76% of the plan. Some contractors have not been drastic, have not paid enough attention to the importance of the project,” said a representative of the Project Management Board. judgment 7 acknowledged.

At a recent meeting to review progress with the Ministry of Transport, the Project Management Board 7 said that the system must be synchronized from the construction organization and quality management. Specifically, regarding the source of backfill materials, the Project Management Board 7 is asking the contractor to urgently coordinate closely with the departments, branches and localities in the implementation process to promptly provide additional documents, resolving arising problems as well as reviewing the remaining material needs of the bidding package; completing licensing procedures for mines that are undergoing procedures and mines that are licensing steel under the special mechanism in Resolution No. 60/NQ-CP and Resolution 133/NQ-CP of the Government.

At the same time, the Project Management Board 7 also requested the contractor to appoint permanent leaders at the construction site to promptly direct and solve difficulties and problems arising during the construction process; clearly identify critical milestones to speed up the construction progress; ensure cash flow to the project in the fastest, convenient and timely manner.

Emphasizing that weekly meetings will be held to review and evaluate the implementation progress of contractors who are behind schedule, Project Management Board 7 has issued a warning document and handled violations according to regulations. contract. The contractors have committed to seriously perform, if not, they will report to the Ministry of Transport and based on the contract terms to handle and propose to consider cutting and transferring the delivered volume to another member. in a joint venture or another unit with construction capacity.

The North – South expressway component project Vinh Hao – Phan Thiet has a length of 100.8 km through Binh Thuan province, this highway was started at the end of September 2020. The total investment is nearly 11,000 billion VND, including 2 phases: phase 1 invests with a scale of 4 lanes, phase 2 invests in expanding into 6 lanes. The project is expected to be completed by the end of 2022.

Quang Toan