In Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan, the kick-off meeting was held for the new international assignment awarded to the Joint Venture formed by Aires Ingegneria and ALL Ingegneria (Ancona).
The "Urban Development Project" (UDP) has the objectives to improve the quality of municipal services and pilot energy efficiency and seismic resilience retrofits of urban infrastructure (schools and kindergartens) in two participating towns: Balykchy e Toktogul.
The project, developed with the Government of Kyrgyz Republic (GKR) and funded by the World Bank, has been prepared by the Community Development and Investment Agency (Agentstvo Razvitiya I Investirovanya Soobschtv Kyrgyzkoi Respubliki – ARIS) which has been responsible for the preparation, coordination, project management and implementation.
The assignment provides for engineering services for designing the retrofit on six facilities (4 schools and 2 kindergartens) built from the 1950s to the 1980s. The design process includes several tasks, namely: feasibility design, preliminary design and detailed design.