HIGHWAYS & BRIDGES

At HKK, we provide comprehensive services for highways and bridges to both public and private clients across Africa. Our team covers various engineering disciplines, including planning, design, programming management, construction management, operations, and asset management. Additionally, we offer advanced visualization capabilities. Our innovative and creative approach to solving highway and bridge design problems has led to award-winning roads and bridges and a reputation for customer satisfaction. Many of our past clients have returned to us for further design commissions. As demand for highway and bridge infrastructure increases, HKK is ready to provide our clients with comprehensive civil, structural, and transportation engineering skills.

Our services cover all phases of new and existing projects, from planning through design to construction. We emphasize function, sustainability, and environmental sensitivity and tailor our services to each project. We aim to help our clients manage risk, control project budgets, meet critical milestones, and achieve their expectations for the completed project. As part of our turnkey solution, we offer various services, including civil and related services, construction support, geotechnical engineering, inspection, rehabilitation, reconstruction, planning and design, project delivery, traffic engineering, and widening and safety improvements.

Bridges

Bridges are essential to Africa's transportation network, and their structural condition and functionality are critical. At HKK, we offer specialized services to design and construct new or rehabilitated, technically and aesthetically correct, durable, economical, and sustainable bridges. Our services cover a range of bridge types, including those for highway, rail, land, and water crossings, using various materials such as wood, concrete, steel, and composite and hybrid materials. We also conduct condition surveys, inspections, and structural analyses to ensure these valuable facilities remain in good condition as they age.

Our team of engineers is skilled in general repair and renovation, seismic retrofit, management systems, and maintenance measures, which help to extend the life of these necessary facilities. We have experience designing and managing the rehabilitation and reconstruction of all types of bridges, from long-span suspension to small and medium-sized bridges in urban and remote areas. Our expertise covers many bridge types, including taxiways, runways, vehicular, railroad, pedestrian, movable, temporary, suspension, cable-stayed, extrados, arch, truss, girder, box girder, and segmental bridges.

Operations 

Efficient, reliable, and safe highway infrastructure is crucial for the well-being of any country. Our team of highway consultants combines technical and business expertise to provide innovative solutions that meet the diverse transportation needs of communities and address client challenges. The road network is the most valuable community asset for strategic and local road authorities. However, managing these assets often needs to receive the necessary attention.

We offer highway service contracts that cover network management, maintenance, and improvement, following the principles of PAS 55 that use a life-cycle approach for treatment selection. We aim to add value for our clients at every stage of project development by adopting lean principles, active risk management, and transferring the best practices we've gained from working on various worldwide projects.

Our team is highly motivated, well-trained, and experienced in all transport sectors. We actively help infrastructure owners and operators achieve their strategic objectives by providing long-term value and optimizing performance. Our portfolio consists of long-standing commissions that prove the benefits of improved service, underpinned by practical operational and maintenance experience. We offer clients financial benefits and innovative, sustainable, and safe solutions.

PPP advisory 

We specialize in providing technical advisory services for PPP/P3 highway projects globally, catering to the public sector, investors, and bidders/concessionaires. Our company, HKK, has a solid reputation for meeting the unique requirements of government bodies, lenders, developers, constructors, operators, insurers, and public sector entities involved in road infrastructure, regardless of the procurement route. We have extensive experience dealing with environmental, financial, social, and technological issues, and our commercial expertise has been honed through global highway development planning, management, and delivery.

Our technical capabilities complement our strategic analysis, allowing us to provide value from the outset. We are fully independent, providing impartial and professional advice to our clients. Our experts conduct comprehensive due diligence activities on new-builds, maintenance, or refinancing of existing roads, guiding project financiers on technical, environmental, and commercial risks. We advise concessionaires on risk assessment, value engineering, operation, and maintenance.