Viranjkumar Patel

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National Highway (NH)-8-India, connects two major cities Delhi and Mumbai via many other important cities in its alignment including Surat, Vadodara, Ahmedabad, Udaipur, and Jaipur. Route considered as one of the busiest national highways across the country. In 2012-13, heavy traffic conjunction issues are being encountered on this NH-8 due to the distress of existing Sardar Bridge on Narmada River at Bharuch. Prior to that, the two well-functioning bridges, old Sardar Bridge and 2nd Narmada constructed by L&T earlier are serving the traffic. NHAI (National Highway Authority of India) has taken responsibility to assure smooth transportation on this highway. As per requirement, NHAI has initiated another 4-lane bridge over river Narmada. For this bridge, L&T proposed Extradosed bridge design keeping the aesthetics and economy as a priority and won the contract from NHAI.  Whole Project is considered as a case study to understand the life cycle of the project and phases of the project. Here are some glims of the implementation phase, particularly the construction methodology is described. The entire work has explored from NHAI and L&T records study and presented in student perspective.,