Building Resilient Bridges

The development objective of the First Phase of the Building Resilient Bridges Project for Albania is: (a) to enhance resilience to climate change and natural hazards of Albania’s critical bridge infrastructure, and (b) to improve road and bridge asset management. The project comprises of three components. The first component, bridge infrastructure will finance: (a) the rehabilitation or reconstruction of priority bridges and culverts on the net present value (NRN), including design studies and supervision of works and equipment for data collection and monitoring, and (b) road safety and resilience audits. It consists of following sub-components: (i) building priority bridges and associated structures; and (ii) climate resilience and road safety. The second component, institutional capacity building will ensure sustainability of the investments under component 1. It consists of following sub-components: (i) asset management for climate-resilient and safe infrastructure; (ii) safeguarding bridge maintenance; and (iii) addressing gender employment gap in road construction. The third component, project management will finance incremental operating costs for project implementation in the Albanian Road Authority (ARA) and its project implementation team (PIT).