Recently, the Chinese Society of Civil Engineering announced the 18th China Civil Engineering Zhan Tianyou Award, the list of award-winning projects and award-winning units. The newly built Kenyan Mombasa-Nairobi standard rail project with the participation of the Fourth Aviation Administration won the Zhan Tianyou Award. Has won the 2020 China Construction Enterprise Association National Quality Project (Gold Award) 2018-2019 China Construction Industry Association China Construction Project Luban Award (Overseas Project) won three domestic awards in a row!

As the highest honor in the industry, the selection of the Zhan Tianyou Award fully reflects the advanced nature, innovation and authority. The award-winning project should have significant creativity and high technological content in design, construction, management and other technical aspects, reflecting the highest level of similar projects in my country today. Why does the Zhan Tianyou Award frequently "favor" the four-aircraft project? Let us uncover the hard power of the four airlines that moved the judges together!

The Belt and Road Initiative

The newly built Kenyan Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway is located in the Republic of Kenya. It is the first railway newly built in Kenya in the past 100 years, the largest infrastructure construction project since Kenya’s independence, and the first related project completed after the Belt and Road Summit. The "flagship project" to realize the national development vision in 2030.

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The Mombasa-Nairobi Railway is the first international trunk railway to be built and operated according to Chinese standards. It is a vivid practice of the “Three Networks and One” and “Capacity Cooperation” of the National One Belt and One Road in East Africa, and it is also a flagship project of the One Belt and One Road. The main line of the project is 471.65 kilometers in length. The first section of the project with the participation of the Fourth Shipping Bureau is 73 kilometers in length. It is the throat of the entire railway. Mombasa Port Station and Mombasa West Station are respectively the starting points for freight and passenger transportation. The smooth opening of the internal railway has played a vital role. The construction projects mainly include the main railway line, subgrade engineering (including subgrade earthwork and subgrade attachment), bridge and culvert engineering, station earthwork (reclamation engineering), track bottom ballast paving, etc.

Chinese standards go to the world

The Mombasa-Nairobi Railway is the first overseas project to be implemented using Chinese railway construction standards. It is China's first full-industry chain and full-process rail transit model project, and it is truly "Made in China". The whole line adopts "Chinese standards, Chinese technology, Chinese equipment, and Chinese management" construction. As the starting section of the East African railway network, the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway adopts Chinese standards, which is of great significance. After the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway adopts Chinese standards, it will bring systemic improvements and revolutionary changes to Kenyan railway technology. With the advancement of technology transfer, Kenya will grasp the key to development and establish Kenyan standards.

During the construction process, Chinese builders have developed a complete set of ecological and environmental protection technologies for railway crossing national parks and the Great Rift Valley. It is the first and example of an overseas trunk railway crossing a large natural flora and fauna reserve under Chinese standards. A series of regional materials such as natural volcanic ash, natural volcanic slag, igneous rock machine-made sand, black cotton soil and other regional materials have also been established in accordance with local conditions to save resources and reduce engineering costs. , To ensure the quality of the project. In addition, the Kenya standard gauge railway construction standard system and the operation and maintenance standard system covering design, construction, acceptance and operation and maintenance have also been systematically formed, which not only fills the gap in Kenya’s lack of standard gauge railway construction standards, but also greatly promotes The process of localization of Chinese railway standards in Kenya.

China-Africa friendship is passed on from generation to generation

The Mombasa-Nairobi Railway Project Department of the Fourth Shipping Bureau strictly implements the Chinese standards and technical disclosure system, attaches importance to technical disclosure and quality management training for technical managers and teams in Kenya, and promotes the transfer of Chinese standards and railway technology. The project department attaches great importance to the training of Kenyan technical staff to improve the theoretical level and practical skills of the Kenyan technical staff. The project team has brought a series of Chinese-style three-level quality management systems and standardized construction such as "Quality Management Measures", "Quality Management Responsibility Letters", and "Quality Control Lists" to the construction of the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway. The Mombasa-Nairobi project self-inspection, mutual inspection, The use of the three-level inspection system for project quality with special inspections has also created unprecedented opportunities for local workers to learn about the management system. The project department also selected Kenyan experimenters with corresponding testing levels to participate in the testing ability assessment held by the Central Laboratory of the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway and the Supervision Consortium. Amos, the Kenyan supervision engineer of the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway Supervision Consortium, is deeply impressed: "The one-year test and inspection work on the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway has allowed me to understand and understand Chinese railway standards. Now I am more and more trusting in Chinese standards. Chinese companies are more Our training is very systematic and comprehensive, thank you!" Made in China and Chinese standards have been recognized by international peers during the construction of the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway, and Chinese railway standards have taken a big step towards the world.

The Mombasa-Nairobi Railway has a total length of 480 kilometers, starting from Mombasa, the largest port in Kenya in the west, and Nairobi, the capital, in the east. It is the largest infrastructure project built since Kenya's independence. Construction began in December 2014. The railway was designed according to Chinese standards, with a designed speed of 120 kilometers per hour for passenger transport and 80 kilometers per hour for freight. It is the first standard-gauge railway (gauge 1.435 meters) put into use in Kenya. Before that, Kenya had only one “meter-gauge” railway (gauge 1 meter) built by the British more than 100 years ago. Transport capacity has long been unable to keep up with actual demand; on the other hand, although roads are the main mode of transportation in Kenya today, they are plagued by high accident rates. After the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway is put into use, it provides a safer, faster and cheaper option for local people's travel and cargo transportation. It stimulated the development of industries along the route and attracted investment for Kenya. Kenyan President Kenyatta once said when inspecting the railway construction that the contribution of the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway to Kenya's economic growth will reach 1.5%, leading Kenya to achieve economic transformation. It is the beginning project of the East African railway network. According to the long-term plan, the railway will connect Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan and other East African countries and become a "railroad artery" in East Africa. With 120 kilometers passing through Tsavo National Park in Kenya, reducing damage to the ecological environment has become a major consideration in railway design. There are 14 animal passages along the railway, among which the bridge-like passages have a net height of 6.5 meters or more, which will basically not affect the free migration of wild animals. The project has directly created more than 46,000 jobs for the local area. The project has trained more than 45,000 local employees. A large number of Kenyan youths have gone to China to learn railway operations.Editor/Xing Wentao