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Leighton Holdings Quarterly Update 2nd Quarter 18 Leighton International's Agra to Bharatpur Highway Project is nearing completion The US$50m Agra to Bharatpur Highway Project for the National Highways Authority of India, spans the states of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh in the north of India. The project involves turning an existing road into a 45km long dual carriageway. Garrett English, the project's Commercial Manager offers an insight into the project. "This is part of a nation-wide initiative to improve the transport infrastructure in India - to make it easier to transport goods from one part of the country to another and that will help the economy. "Rajasthan is notoriously one of the hottest states in India, we get temperatures between May and July of up to 48 degrees Celsius. We also have a monsoon season here, starting in early July, which goes on for about three months. "One of the main health and safety issues that we're facing is the interaction of our equipment with a public unfamiliar with road building activities. We have a dedicated liaison team who go into the local communities and explain to them what we're doing and also go into local schools to talk to children about the dangers associated with a project of this nature. "Creating a culture of safety, including the use of personal protective equipment, for the largely
Leighton Holdings Quarterly Update 2nd Quarter 19 locally employed staff and workforce who are not very familiar with these practices is also a priority. We carry out regular tool box talks to highlight specific safety initiatives which we're taking. "Interestingly we're finding that we have on the footprint of the project lots of monuments and temples which we need to relocate. It's very important that we respect the values of the local community and, so far so good, everything is working out OK. "We've also got a lot of animals moving around on the project ranging from water buffalo to monkeys and dogs etc. That's just a part of life here and we have to work around that, which we've done successfully so far. "We strive on this project to minimise the impact on the environment - we source only locally produced materials. We use clean diesel in all of our machines and all of our production plants. We always use dust suppression as well and we've got nine or ten dust suppression water trucks operating throughout the project. "We use the Leighton style of management here on this project, we try to be largely permissive in our management style. We like to give people flexibility to manage the way in which they do their work. The result of this is that we've seen a lot of staff blossom and become very proactive and take responsibility for what they're doing, which is a big cultural shift for them. Essentially we're using these projects as a training ground to create the managers to run our business in the future. "How do we measure our success on this project Well first and foremost is how safely we work, secondly how efficiently we work which obviously leads to the profitability of the project and thirdly, how we interact with the community and how we deal pre-emptively with their concerns. "Additionally this project will certainly help with tourism in the area, which is a very large part of the economy around here. The Taj Mahal is only 20km from here and the highway will help increase flows of people to it," concluded Mr English.
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