Location: Osmaniye, Turkey

Date of Start and Completion:  June 2022- January 2024

Clients: Osmaniye Municipality

Project Description:

Establishing a sustainable municipal infrastructure for Osmaniye can only be achieved by gathering all Infrastructure Projects in a single center, managing and optimizing these projects in a way to minimize the discomfort of citizens from a single center, and sharing the current situation and transparently planning with the citizens. In this context, two main objectives shaped the basis of this project.

i) Providing technical support for faster delivery and effective management of municipal infrastructure;

ii) Increasing the technical capacity of the municipality and managing the effective planning, delivery, operations, and maintenance of municipal infrastructure for sustainable service delivery.

Service Provided:

TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES

• Ensuring the creation and implementation of the relevant strategic targets in line with the mission and vision of Osmaniye Municipality, and monitoring the budget and performance realizations in this direction.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT SERVICES

• Preparing work plans, to monitor, supervise, and coordinate the works to ensure that the activities of all infrastructure projects planned to be carried out by the municipality are effective, efficient, and following the purpose.
• Planning and coordinating transportation, traffic, and public transport services during infrastructure construction.
• Implementation of road geometric arrangement and level crossing projects, pedestrian and bicycle transportation projects, all kinds of different level bridge intersection projects including art structures, lower-upper pedestrian crossings, children’s traffic education park projects, public transportation transfer centers, and transportation and traffic management control center projects within the scope of transportation and traffic planning studies within the boundaries of the municipality.
• Ensuring that route profiles are prepared and land modeling is carried out to form a basis for the work of infrastructure projects on the main traffic arteries.
• Coordinating with the relevant institutions and organizations on the infrastructure excavations to be carried out on the main traffic arteries, roads, intersections, asphalt, green areas, and similar works and all kinds of works on the highway, to provide the necessary traffic permits, to determine alternative routes and routes.
• Preparing regulations on public transport, transportation, and traffic regulations when necessary, during the project process and contributing to the implementation of these regulations.
• Taking the annual draft investment and asphalt programs of the infrastructure Public Institutions and Organizations that invest throughout Osmaniye from the relevant institutions, to combine them and prepare the draft annual program for Osmaniye in general.

MONITORING EVALUATION

• Providing a Monitoring Plan that includes specific parameters for site visits, asset verification, and data collection for each of the project sites and locations that are made/planned and planned within the scope of the municipality.
• Preparing the Construction Phase Environmental and Social Management and Monitoring Plan.

SECURITY and AWARENESS

• Ensuring traffic order and safety on the main arteries that Osmaniye Municipality is responsible for construction and maintenance.
• Providing technical support to the Municipality regarding constructing traffic light signs and sign signs at intersections and places deemed necessary due to counting and surveys during the project applications.
• Carrying out studies to correct the defects in the roads and intersections that are responsible for construction and maintenance.
• Examining all kinds of manufacturing and installation works of traffic sign signs required to ensure traffic safety on the highways for which Osmaniye Municipality is responsible for construction and maintenance.
• Providing Financial, Risk, and Contract management support to the Municipality to enable professional service providers to effectively manage their contracts and performance, requiring technical support.
• Determination of financial and operational actions, and methods, creation of model and business plan, asset valuation, resource research, efficiency analysis, and proposing alternative solutions for financial problems with government support and grants
• Planning, designing, and implementing a general risk management process for the municipality
• One of the most important tasks among City Management is to create two-way communication with citizens to provide precise and updated information about news, events, constructions, and any other related matter that in any way may affect the daily lives or commute of individuals while enabling the residents to provide their concerns and feedbacks at a touch of a finger. MyCity is an integrated system provided on web and mobile platforms that runs on the grounding of the internet. Some of the features of MyCity are;
  • Enabling residents to provide feedback or track the status of a previously created concern about the city.
  • Providing remote services to minimize transportation of residents
  • Tourism
  • Virtual meetings with authorities
  • Navigation while applying the latest temporary updates related to events or constructions on the map (Defining non-entrance zones)