-to allow for proper setting of concrete
The completion of the new Demerara Harbour Bridge has now been pushed back from March 31 to August 31 of this year – a five-month delay – to allow for sections of the concrete structure to properly set, a process which cannot be rushed, Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill says.
“We have some construction that needs to be done that you just can’t shorten the time because you have to have curing time for concrete and all the rest of it. We have gone through everything and the project team and the consultants and the contractor, we have agreed on a time schedule that nothing [goes] beyond August 31,” Edghill yesterday said.
There had been no word from the government on this new delay until President Irfaan Ali adverted to it in his New Year’s address.
