A project to build an overpass over the National Sun Yat-sen Freeway (National Freeway No. 1) has won the design category of the Global Road Achievement Awards, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications said yesterday.
Deputy Minister of Transportation and Communications Tseng Dar-jen (曾大仁) accepted the award on behalf of the government, the designers and the builders of the project at the International Road Federation Europe and Central Asia Congress in Istanbul, Turkey, the ministry said.
The congress was held on Thursday and Friday and awards were presented in 12 categories to companies and organizations in recognition of innovative road projects.
Photo: CNA, provided by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications’ National Expressway Engineering Bureau
The award-winning viaduct project runs for about 40km from New Taipei City’s (新北市) Wugu District (五股) to Taoyuan’s Yangmei District (楊梅). Work began in October 2009 and concluded in April 2013 and the project cost NT$88.2 billion (about US$2.7 billion at current exchange rates).
The project was aimed at resolving traffic congestion problems on the northern part of the freeway.
It faced numerous challenges, including limited construction space, maintaining traffic on a busy section of freeway and implementing a very complicated technical design in a short period of time, the federation said.
“The project is a testament of how the collective efforts of the government, designers and builders can realize a unique road engineering design solution,” it said.
Kenting National Park service technician Yang Jien-fon (楊政峰) won a silver award in World Grand Prix Photography Awards Spring Season for his photograph of two male rat snakes intertwined in combat. Yang’s colleagues at Kenting National Park said he is a master of nature photography who has been held back by his job in civil service. The awards accept entries in all four seasons across six categories: architectural and urban photography, black-and-white and fine art photography, commercial and fashion photography, documentary and people photography, nature and experimental photography, and mobile photography. Awards are ranked according to scores and divided into platinum, gold and
More than half of the bamboo vipers captured in Tainan in the past few years were found in the city’s Sinhua District (新化), while other districts had smaller catches or none at all. Every year, Tainan captures about 6,000 snakes which have made their way into people’s homes. Of the six major venomous snakes in Taiwan, the cobra, the many-banded krait, the brown-spotted pit viper and the bamboo viper are the most frequently captured. The high concentration of bamboo vipers captured in Sinhua District is puzzling. Tainan Agriculture Bureau Forestry and Nature Conservation Division head Chu Chien-ming (朱健明) earlier this week said that the
BREACH OF CONTRACT: The bus operators would seek compensation and have demanded that the manufacturer replace the chips with ones that meet regulations Two bus operators found to be using buses with China-made chips are to demand that the original manufacturers replace the systems and provide compensation for breach of contract, the Veterans Affairs Council said yesterday. Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Michelle Lin (林楚茵) yesterday said that Da Nan Bus Co and Shin-Shin Bus Co Ltd have fielded a total of 82 buses that are using Chinese chips. The bus models were made by Tron-E, while the systems provider was CYE Electronics, Lin said. Lin alleged that the buses were using chips manufactured by Huawei subsidiary HiSilicon Co, which presents a national security risk if the
The National Immigration Agency has banned two Chinese from returning to Taiwan, after they published social media content it described as disrespectful to national sovereignty. The agency imposed a two-month ban on a Chinese man surnamed Liang (梁) and a permanent ban on a woman surnamed Yang (楊), an influencer with 23 million followers, in October last year and last week respectively. Minister of the Interior Liu Shyh-fang (劉世芳) yesterday said on the sidelines of a legislative meeting that Chinese visitors to Taiwan are required to comply with the rules and regulations governing their entry permits. The government has handled the ban and
RSS