At the only ski resort in the Zenica-Doboj canton, Ponijeri in Kakanj, a lot of work is being done to install a new ski lift that will enable better and safer skiing next season.
Summer does not mean vacation for fans of winter tourism, and neither does it for the municipality of Kakanj, which is the only one in the Zenica-Doboj Canton to have a ski resort, offering day and night skiing.
Although everything has been done in the past years, from skiing and sledding trails and lighting, the only thing that remains to be replaced is the ski lift, and thanks to the delegates at higher levels of government from Kakanj and Zenica, funds were transferred from the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the equipment was purchased. the tender is over, and the works are already in an advanced stage.
In a statement to Klix.ba, the director of the Public Institution Cultural and Sports Center Kakanj Mirza Mušija said that the generational project of acquiring a new elevator is in a more mature phase of implementation.
“After the first phase, where we secured 2 million BAM, the tender procedure was successfully carried out, the conceptual and main design was drawn up, permits and approvals were obtained, and a supervisory team was also engaged. The project is led by the companies PPG from Sarajevo and Doppelmayer from Austria. We completed the dismantling earlier. of the old lift, foundation pits were dug for poles, stations and control cabins of the ski lift,” Musija said.
So far, the assembly of the formwork and concreting of the foundation slab for the foundations of pillars S4, S5 and S6 have been completed at Ponijer, while the assembly of the formwork and concreting of the walls and foundations of the control house at the starting station and the foundation slabs for the pillars S1 and S2 are in progress.
“Everything is going according to plan and God willing, we will enter the new season with a new ski lift,” Musija concluded.
