By Joseph Kiggundu
"We are now focused on achieving practical completion
of the project as soon as possible while maintaining the highest quality
standards in construction using high quality materials and very skilled
manpower to satisfy our customer requirements," Mr Bernard Muhangi, the
company's spokesperson, said during the site tour at the weekend.
The school will have a double storied reinforced concrete
framed hotel building with two training kitchens and restaurants, a laundry
block, two gate houses, a power house and a garbage collection house.
Government has so far paid one certificate owing to the
progress of the project, which is 88.28 per cent financial and 89 per cent
physical.
"We are in the process of concluding documentation for
the second phase, which shall include the construction of one additional floor
to the hotel block with all electrical and mechanical reticulation," Mr
Muhangi said.
There have been complaints that additional floor finishing
have been delayed but Mr Muhangi said these have been different within the work
time frame of the second phase.
During the tour, workers were partitioning, roofing and
shuttering while some were working on external and external finishes,
mechanical and electrical installations.
Mr Muhangi said most of the pending works are dependent on
the commencement of phase II of the project, which include the construction of
one additional floor to the hotel block with all electrical and mechanical
reticulation.
The project was funded by the International Development
Association.
It was divided into two, with the second at Nalufenya in
Jinja to include construction of the Uganda Hotel Tourism and Training
Institute .
Government handed over the site to Roko on April 10, 2018
for commencement of works for 12 months. However, the project was extended due
to variations and additional works.