Sharey Baban Highway Project Site Trip
The Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering at Tishk International University-Sulaimani (TIUS) organized a scientific trip to the Sharey Baban Highway Project on December 19th, 2022. THe Sharey Babam Highway Project, also known as the 100m road, is one of the biggest strategic highway projects in the Sulaimaniyah Governorate in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The project visit aimed to introduce the steps of flexible pavement road construction including the different engineering works during the construction.
The trip was supervised by Mr. Shallaw Abdulla and Mr. Raber Hamad, the Site Engineer. During the trip, different stages of highway construction were explained including site surveying and compaction stages. Various tests that should be applied to the soil were also discussed, including the treatment of weak soil during construction. The trip was attended by the third-grade students from the Civil Engineering Department at TIUS.
