The Padma Multipurpose Bridge Project aims to construct a significant two-level steel truss bridge across the Padma River in Bangladesh, enhancing access and expected to contribute to a 1.2% increase in the country's GDP. Set to link the southwest region with the northern and eastern parts, the project is projected to support economic growth while causing social and environmental disruptions, including the loss of trees and fish breeding areas. Construction challenges and financial decisions have led to delays, with completion now anticipated beyond the original December 2018 deadline.

1. WELCOME
PRESENTATION
ON
PADMA MULTIPURPOSE BRIDGE PROJECT

2. Group Information
Present By – Group 03
Batch- 16th (A)
Department of Civil Engineering (Evening)
Uttara University.
Name of the Group Member:
 Md Abi Abdullah - 2173091024
 Md Rasal Babu - 2173391026
 Md Saju Ahmmed - 2173391029
 Md Mozaharul Islam - 2173391030
 Md Khushibuzaman Noyon - 2173391032
 Suraya Akhter - 2161391065 (11th)

3. 1. Objective/ Overview
The Padma Bridge is a multipurpose road-rail bridge across the
Padma River to be constructed in Bangladesh. Padma Bridge
is the most challenging construction Project in the history of
Bangladesh. The two-level steel truss bridge will carry a four-
lane highway on the upper level and a single track railway on a
lower level. With 150m span, 6150m length and 18.10m width.
It’s going to be a largest bridge in Bangladesh.

4. 1. Objective/ Overview
Name of the Project
Padma Multipurpose Bridge Project (PMBP)
Executing Agency
Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA)
Construction Period
November 2014 ~ December 2018 (4 Years)
Liabilities Period
1 year from the date of completion

5. 2. Why This Project?
 The social, economic, and industrial underdevelopment of the southwest zone-which
encompasses Bangladesh's second major port, Mongla, its third major city, Khulna, and the
inland port at Benapole bordering India-is due in part to difficult access across the Padma
River to the rest of the country. The bridge is expected to have a profound impact on the 30
million-plus people living in the southwest and accelerate economic growth in the country
as a whole.
 At the same time, it is expected to raise Bangladesh's GDP by 1.2%, pushing it over 7%
and thus, enabling it to become a middle-income country by World Bank standards, with
over $1,000 per capita income by 2020.A total of 73,329 people will be affected by the
construction of the bridge. The government has already allocated $30 million for their
rehabilitation

6. 3. Location
Louhajong, Munshiganj to Shariatpur and Madaripur. linking
the south-west of the country, to northern and eastern regions.

7. 4. Technical Issue
Construction of the 6.15km bridge connecting the capital with the
southwestern region would not be completed by the government's
set December deadline.
Of the 40 piers, piling for the 14 could not be done due to the
nature of the riverbed. The authorities were trying to redesign the
piers, said sources in the Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA).

8. 4. Technical Issue
While the project office was finding it hard to solve design-related
problems concerning 14 piers of the 6.15 kilometer bridge during
the last couple of months, it is now facing new problems with eight
piers, some of which have already been partially constructed.

9. 5. Construction
Design
•Truss
Bridge
Material
•Steel
Total length
•6.150 km
(20,180 ft)
Width
•18.10 m
(59.4 ft)

10. 5. Construction
• Total 41nos.
• 2 transition pier at landward ends and
• 40 Center pier
Span
• 150 m each Composite Superstructure (Warren type Steel Truss Girder and
Concrete on Upper Deck)
Span Length
• Racked (Inclined at 1H:6V) Steel Tubular driven pile
• 6 Nos. In each pier
• Pile Diameter = 3m
• Pile Length = 117m (near bank)
• Pile Length = 101m (Centre)
Pile Details
• 760mm dia Gas Transmission Line
• 150mm dia Fiber optical & Telephone Duct
• 7 nos High voltage Electric Line Platform in River over Pile Foundation
Utilities Through
the Bridge

11. 6. Financial Issues
Project Financing Agency Amount (USD in Millions)
World Bank (WB) 1,200.00
Asian Development Bank (ADB) 615.00
Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) 415.00
Islamic Development Bank (IDB) 140.00
Government of Bangladesh (GoB) 602.06
Total= 2,972.06

12. 6. Financial Issues
Government of the Bangladesh
decided not to take loan from
funding Agencies on 09 July 2012 &
took decision to complete the project
from GoB Fund/Budget.

13. 7. Social & Environmental Effect
 About 295,072 trees loss (Excluding 485,074 bamboo and
banana trees)
 Crops 24,684 tons
 Loss of fish breeding area about 767 ha, 12 ha fishing ponds
will be filled up, etc.
 Generate about 50 Million cubic meter dredge material from
the river
 Traffic congestion, safety hazards, noise pollution, sanitation,
health and hygiene, waste generation etc.

14. Conclusions

15. The End