The Bridge Construction and Maintenance Circle is a new circle established under the Bridge Management Wing created in 2000 as part of the overall reorganisation of RHD.

The objective of the Bridge Construction and Maintenance Circle is to contribute to the overall strategy of the Bridge Management Wing by:

Providing and managing the construction, rehabilitation and maintenance of the bridge stock to ensure safe, sound and optimum lifetime performance.

a) Reports on progress and financial status of all Bridge Construction, Rehabilitation and Maintenance activities.

b) Improved maintenance on all RHD bridges.

c) Completed new and rehabilitated structures and their formal adoption.

d) Agreed and approved as built drawings.

e) Feedback to the Bridge Design Circles on design features and the use of Standard Contract Documents.

The Bridge Construction and Maintenance Circle is headed by a Superintending Engineer supported by 4 Executive Engineers who are each in charge of Division.

The numbers of personnel in the Circle are shown in the attached table that shows the total proposed number of personnel in the Circles to be 123. The total number of personnel in the Circle comprises 18 Class I, 12 Class II, 70 Class III and 23 Class IV staff.

Certain officers in the Bridge Construction and Maintenance Circle are to be designated as specialists. Specialist posts for engineers with specialist training are hash marked thus, EE #.

a) Manage Bridge Construction, rehabilitation and maintenance work (Works may be executed under the supervision of the Bridge Construction and Maintenance Circle, RHD Field Zones, RHD Foreign Aided Projects or by Consultants but all works will be managed and monitored by this Circle).

b) Ensure that all Bridge Construction and Rehabilitation Works are properly Executed and Supervised (quantity, quality and financial).

c) Procure Contractors for Execution and Consultants for Supervision of Bridge Rehabilitation and Construction Works.

d) Monitor Periodic and Routine Bridge Maintenance Works carried out by Field Zones.

e) Establish and Manage Procedures to be complied with for the Formal Adoption of Structures.

f) Establish Quality Assurance Procedures for Construction and Maintenance Structures.

g) Inputs to Annual Review of Standard Contract Documents (CoC, Specifications etc.)

h) Inputs for preparation and updating of bridge construction and maintenance procedures.

The budget for the Bridge Construction and Maintenance Circle is shown on the attached table. It should be noted that no funds have been included in the budget for procurement of consultancy services or supervision cost, as these will form part of the overall project budget cost as given in ADP. The budget table shows both the annual operation and maintenance costs and the capital costs of purchasing new and replacing old, equipment. As not all equipment will be purchased or replaced immediately the capital cost has been annualised depending on the average life of the various items of equipment. The costs shown exclude the cost of personnel who are paid for from other sources.

On this basis the annual recurring cost for the Circle is Taka 122.00 lacs and the capital cost on an annualised basis is Taka 92.35 lacs. A total cost of Taka 214.35 lacs per annum. The cost of site inspections and supervision of small contracts by consultants is Taka 59.60 lacs. This sum only allows for supervision of maintenance and smaller contracts, the supervision costs for major bridge rehabilitation and construction works is expected to come from project funds.

The Bridge Construction and Maintenance Circle requires resources for Head Quarters and field operations and to enable the Circles to undertake and fulfil their duties.

The resources required are shown in the table below: