Road Structures

A joint venture of BAM, Morgan Sindall and VolkerFitzpatrick has started refurbishing the Oldbury viaduct on the UK’s M5 motorway. The €112 million project will see repairs to a 3.5km stretch between junctions 1 and 2 of the motorway – one of the UK’s busiest routes – to the west of Birmingham city. Work is being done in three phases starting with the removal of the road surface on the southbound carriageway to investigate the condition of the concrete deck.

Dutch construction company Ballast Nedam along with Belgian dredging company Deme and Australian investment bank Macquarie have won the Blankenburgtunnel tender in the Netherlands. The consortium - BAAK Blankenburg-Verbinding - will build the tunnel under the Nieuwe Waterweg river west of Vlaardingen, a city in southern Holland and on the north bank of the river Nieuwe Maas where it meets the Oude Maas.

The Perth Transport Futures project has reached a milestone with the placing of steel beams to support the road bridge on Scotland’s A9 dual carriageway.

Plans are being drawn up in Ghana for the construction of three new bridges in the north of the country. In all the construction work will cost US$100 million and is being carried out in Ghana’s Northern Region. Two bridges will span the tributary of the Volta River, the White Volta, and will be built at Daboya and Yapeim close to the northern city of Tamale. The third bridge will be constructed at Buipe and will span another tributary of the Volta River, the Black Volta.

In Angola’s capital Luanda, three key road projects have now been awarded, with the work intended to help improve urban traffic flow and cut congestion at peak periods. One project will be carried out by the Chinese contractor China Railway 20 Group International. This project is worth some US$142.3 million and is for the second stage of the South-West Luanda Boulevard, which will run along the coast. Contractor Tecnovia Angola will handle the work for the other two projects. One is the $1 billion project f