The Cultural Heritage and Urban Development (CHUD) Project –Supervision of Construction Contracts for Urban Development & Conservation, and Engineering Study for Traffic and Road Improvement in the Old City of Tripoli.

Construction supervision services for the complete project involving:

• Quality, Quantity and Time Control of the construction works which occur in an urban setting in a historic city.
• Health, safety and Environmental Monitoring, and Protection of cultural heritage and archaeological remains.
• Optimize the construction activities to the minimal detriment of those of the inhabitants by: reducing negative impacts on abutting properties, detouring of traffic, maintaining access to shops, minimizing the nuisances associated with the construction activities…
• Coordination with other related projects under construction in the same areas.
• Liaise with all stakeholders: funding institutions, DGU, DGA, the Municipality of Tripoli, various citizen groups and NGOs.

The supervised construction contracts included:

• Souks rehabilitation, including infrastructure and shops and upper floors facades.
• Three residential buildings to house displaced Khan-al-Askar squatters.
• Improvement and landscaping of Burtasi Mosque courtyard.
• Painting of Facades of Dohr el Mogher.
• Construction of Nahr Abou Ali platform composed of post-tensioned girders supported on piers carried by piles on both sides of Nahr Abouli Channel and the kiosks over it.
• Stabilization of slopes on road leading to Zghorta utilizing reinforced earth embankments.
• Rehabilitation of historic Khan al Askar caravan serial.