U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Middle East District

22 km MILCON Roads, Bagram Airfield

Design and construction of 22.67 km of new roads inside the Bagram Airfield perimeter, delivered as a joint venture with a Korean international construction company. This was TCL's first prime contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and its largest single job.

Scope of work

  • Traffic study and investigation of existing pavement, drainage, slopes, culverts, wadis and retaining walls
  • Soils, materials and geotechnical investigation
  • Geological and hydrological surveys, including a flood and sediment control plan
  • Environmental impact study
  • Topographic and total-station road surveys
  • Detailed design of pavement, drainage, slopes and culverts
  • Inception, traffic, hydrology, soils and monthly progress reports
  • Two large bridges over the creek crossing the base
  • Stress-absorbing membrane interlayer fabric to prevent reflective cracking
  • Construction of 22.67 km of asphalt roads inside the runway area and base

Original award $17,993,928.69 plus modification of $661,762.24.

Project documents

design, drawings and test reports
Scope of the new road network inside Bagram Airfield, from the Design Analysis (Sep 2010)
Construction Drawings cover: BAF New Roads, contract W912ER-09-C-0049, with Trust Construction Co. Ltd. on the design-build team
Design Analysis (survey, traffic, hydrology, geotechnical, pavement), 65% resubmittal, Sep 2010
Typical road cross-sections from the design
Pavement plan sheet from the construction drawings
Quality control: asphalt binder course core density results from the materials testing lab

Pages from the design analysis, construction drawings and geotechnical report prepared for this contract. No site photographs of this project are kept in our archive; the full document sets are available to contracting officers on request.

Proof

certificates and contract documents
Bagram Airfield roadsU.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bagram Area Office · 2014