Jebel Ali Container Terminal 4 (CT4)

The deep-water port, located in Jebel Ali, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is the world's largest man-made harbor and the largest and busiest port in the Middle East. The container terminal CT-04 project included the construction of a 400 m bridge to the reclaimed island and adjacent causeways, as well as a reclaimed 2.2 km quay wall with an alongside depth of 18 m to accommodate mega container vessels. 

Construction works included reclamation by dredged sand, vibro-compaction followed by high-energy impact compaction, piling for rail-mounted gantry beams utilizing continuous flight auger piles, excavation followed by cutting the piles till the cut-off level, fixing of rails and their accessories on the rail-mounted gantry beam top, backfilling, and construction of pavement with cement-bound material followed by installing paving blocks. Geotechnical and geodetic instruments were installed in the soil to monitor the settlement of the ground for verification of the initial design of temporary works supporting the excavation. 

Encardio Rite’s sister concern, Rite Geosystems LLC in UAE, was awarded the monitoring works for the project. Scope of works included: 

• Supply, installation, and monitoring of geotechnical and geodetic instruments
• Optical surveying
• Weekly and monthly reporting with evaluation & interpretations