Lesotho’s first extradosed bridge inaugurated | EUROtoday

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In the valley carved by the Senqu River, within the mountains of Lesotho’s north-eastern plateau, Webuild has accomplished the engineering problem of the Senqu Bridge.

Inaugurated on April 22, 2026, the work, 825 meters lengthypermits us to beat the pure impediment of the Drakensberg Mountains and the long run reservoir of the Polihali dam, representing a strategic infrastructure for the event of mobility and the water transition of the Kingdom.

The infrastructure, explains a notice, “was built by the Webuild Group at the helm of an international joint venture on behalf of the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (Lhda) and is an important element of the second phase of development of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (Lhwp), the binational program between Lesotho and South Africa launched in 1986 for the valorisation of the water resources of the Lesotho highlands and today considered the largest water transfer scheme on the African continent”.

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They took half within the inauguration ceremony King Letsie III of Lesotho and the President of the Republic of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosaconfirming the strategic worth of the work for each international locations.

Pietro SaliniCEO of Webuild: “With this bridge, we’ve got overcome a restrict imposed by nature to ensure Lesotho its water and power future in notably complicated working and weather conditions, together with sudden winds, snow and work at excessive altitude. The building web site required focused engineering decisions, similar to work platforms as much as 88 meters excessive, entry roads carved into the rock and short-term buildings tailored day by day to climate situations”.