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    MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE ACCOUNT ARMENIA EMPHASIZES CONSTRUCTION QUALITY AND ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND PRACTICES

    armradio.am
    03.12.2010 18:10

    The focus of the U.S. Government funded Millennium Challenge Account
    Armenia Program (MCA-Armenia) is rehabilitation of Armenia's vital
    irrigation infrastructure complemented with extensive technical and
    financial assistance to rural farmers and to the government irrigation
    entities that support them. In addition to these programmatic
    activities MCA-Armenia emphasizes such aspects of the Program as
    quality of construction and environmentally sound practices.

    On December 3-4 a Workshop on Quality Control, Health and Safety,
    Environmental and Social Aspects of MCA-Armenia's Irrigated Agriculture
    Project is held in Yerevan under the MCA-Armenia Program.

    During Day 1 the Construction Supervisor/Project Manager Consultant
    presented its activities targeted at quality control, and health
    and safety aspects of construction works, sharing lessons learnt and
    combining the presentations with practical demonstrations. Some topics
    of interest during this part of the workshop included factory tests of
    imported pumps, use of geomembranes in rehabilitation of main canals or
    use of rubbers gaskets in gravity and tertiary systems. During Day 2
    of the Workshop the Environmental and Social Assessment and Oversight
    Consultant presented a summary report of its annual activities, which
    included results of environmental/social oversight and monitoring.

    Separate presentations focused on such important issues as guidelines
    for handling asbestos containing materials or water quality monitoring
    under Ararat Valley Drainage Program. and highlighted such important
    issues as guidelines for handling asbestos containing materials or
    water quality monitoring under Ararat Valley Drainage Program.

    MCA-Armenia emphasizes the importance of the issues discussed during
    the workshop not only throughout the Program implementation, but also
    as a way of introducing best international experience of construction
    quality and environmentally sound practices to Armenia.




    From: A. Papazian
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