Engineering Post Report
Frontier Works Organization (FWO) has celebrated its 57th Rising Day recently highlighting its achievements over the years.
FWO began its historic journey way back on October 31, 1966 with the construction of Karakoram Highway (KKH), the one and only link between Pakistan and China. KKH. According to FWO sources, KKH has at times been attributed as the 8th Wonder of the World because of its phenomenal altitude that bypasses the mountain ranges of heights above 4000 meters. During its 57 years, FWO has progressed by leaps and bounds hence coming to be regarded as one of the largest civil engineering firms of Pakistan contributing immensely to the national building.
Landmark projects which FWO has undertaken and accomplished during last about six decades and still going strong included besides KKH, Makran Coastal Highway, Juglot-Skardu Road,Gwadar-Turbat-Hoshab Road, Swat Highway Tunnels, Mohmand Agency Nohigi Tuunnel, Gomal Zam Dam,Lahore-Sialkot Motorway, Darbar Sahib Kartarpur, 132 KV Transmission Line Panjgur,.
FWO has listed a number of its ongoing projects also which include Diamir-Basha Dam Gilgit Baltistan,Karam Tongi Dam North Waziristan district Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , Joggran Hydropower Project Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Islamabad Expressway Project; Sialkot Kharian Motorway; Gujranwala -Lahore Dual Carriageway; Lahore Ring Road Southern Loop; Rawalpindi Ring Road; among others. Details of all projects have been avoided for want of space, please.
FWO has listed Green Pakistan Initiative, Tunneling, Mining, Tourism, corporate Social Responsibility as some of its new ventures.
List of FWO achievements and national contributions quite obviously continues to increase every year and its expertise keeps growing in almost every spectrum of civil engineering works. Wish FWO still greater achievements in the coming years as a great growing engineering works organization.
