Dubai - Fujairah: Construction of Freeway

A new four-lane freeway is planned from the city of Dubai, on the Persian Gulf, to the town and harbour of Fujairah, on the Gulf of Oman. DC Abu Dhabi is entrusted with the supervision of the construction of 33 km of this freeway. In this section the freeway passes through the rugged Hajar Mountains Along this sectionrock-cuttings with depths up to 1.000 m are planned.

As the construction works began it turned out that the planned template for the cutting scheme (cut slopes,widths of benches, cut toes) did not provide sufficient safety against falling rocks and landslides. Therefore, DC was assigned to develop a new template for therock slopes, benches and cut toes and to give recommendations for possible protection systems against rock fall and landslides.