CPEC’s Thahkot-Havelian wins ENR best project award

Islamabad: China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)’s Karakoram Highway Phase-II (Thahkot-Havelian) project has won the best project award by the Engineering News-Record (ENR) – an American weekly magazine.

The ENR declared the major CPEC project as the winner of Global Best Projects Juried Competition. “After many hours of analysis and debate, a panel of industry veterans has selected the winners of ENR’s 9th annual Global Best Projects competition,” said the ENR announcement.

It added: “Like ENR’s popular regional and national US competitions, Global Best Projects identifies and honors the project teams behind outstanding design and construction efforts of the past year”.

The ENR is widely regarded as one of the construction industry’s most authoritative publications.

Later, Ambassador of China to Pakistan Nong Rong congratulated on winning the award. “Engineering News Record (ENR) has just announced winners of Global Best Projects Juried Competition. My sincere congratulations to KKH Phase-II (Havelian-Thakot) Project, a major transport infrastructure project under #CPEC, for winning the best annual Bridge/Tunnel Award!”, he said adding “CPEC boasts of best bridges and tunnels in the world. Hard efforts paid off with honor.”

The main structure of the project includes 60 large bridges, 45 middle and small bridges, 11 flyovers, 464 culverts, 40 underpasses, six tunnels (two in Expressway section, four in Class-II Highway), three interchanges, two service areas, three tunnel management stations and six tool stations.