Bid race begins for £1bn concrete road replacement deal
National Highways has opened the bidding for a new six-year framework to deliver a major programme of concrete road replacement.
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Bid race begins for £1bn concrete road replacement deal
National Highways has opened the bidding for a new six-year framework to deliver a major programme of concrete road replacement.
Around 400 miles (4%) of England’s motorway and long-distance A-road network are concrete paved
The new £1bn Legacy Concrete Roads Reconstruction Framework replaces the existing arrangement, which was more focused on repairs than reconstruction.
Under the existing £400m five-year framework coming to a close, Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure and John Sisk & Son Ltd are carrying out major reconstruction works, with lifecycle extension works are delivered VolkerFitzpatrick Ltd, COLAS, Dyer & Butler and Tarmac delivering life extension works.
The next generation of framework will see a shift in spending focus towards full reconstruction and require around double the spend.
Applications are due back in March with the new framework going live in November this year.
The LCRR framework will be six years in duration to ensure alignment to and coverage of the RIS3 funding period (2025-30) but also to overlap with the beginning of RIS4 (2030-35).
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Flexible pavement refers to a type of road construction that includes materials like asphalt, bitumen, and aggregates. These pavements are designed to be flexible under loading, which helps distribute the load over a wider area and minimize stress on the subgrade. They are commonly used for highways and roads where heavy traffic volumes are expected.
Read how concrete and steel bridge champions are collaborating to develop thorough life-cycle assessments and lower embodied carbon material procurement requirements for bridges → https://bit.ly/3wWva50
Precast beam decks are generally used for short span bridges ranging between 5m to 50m – these may be railway or motorway bridges. Standard inverted tee beams or M-beams are chosen and positioned by crane.
Where precast beams are considered for a motorway bridge construction, the bridge cross-section for a typical carriageway will generally consist of four beams. Erection time of such bridge should have a rate of construction of four beams per day. A cast-in-situ slab top deck is normally used with an expected rate of construction of one span a week.
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A section of the A30 in Cornwall has become one of the first in the UK to trial a novel grade of concrete that reduces road noise.
In a National Highways trial, the specialist technique has been used by Tarmac, Wirtgen and Atmo Technology.
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1moI vaguely remember a programme to remove all concrete roads by 2020, but that came and went.