Rockhampton Ring Road: Fulton Hogan and Acciona and BMD and Bielby bidding for contracts
Industry professionals turned out to an information briefing on the $1 billion road project this week. See what was heard in the presentation.
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Industry professionals turned out to an information briefing on the Rockhampton Ring Road project this week where major contractors bidding for work on the $1.065 billion project were revealed.
The 14.7km ring road project has been divided into two separate parts, being the South and North packages.
While contracts have not been officially announced by the State Government, a number of contractors were in attendance at the event.
Joint venture Acciona and Fulton Hogan is one of the major players bidding for the South package.
This will be the section between the new Capricorn Highway intersection and Rockhampton Ridgelands Road.
Joint venture BMD Group and Bielby is one of the key groups bidding for the North project.
This package will be the Ridgelands Road overpass to the Yeppoon Road intersection with the Bruce Highway and will include the new 80 metre span Fitzroy River bridge.
Key personnel from government departments provided a presentation on their involvement on the project in front of about 60 attendees from various industry businesses at the Frenchville Sports Club.
Major works will begin in January 2023, pending the wet season, with some early works anticipated with site investigation, surveys and set up/establish site.
The work was expected to take three and a half years.
Contracts were expected to be finalised by the end of this year, in time for Christmas.
A five/two roster has been proposed for the workers, however it was noted this is open to negotiation.
The project will include a 17.4km of new roads and more than 6km of bridging.
It was noted in the presentation that it was “quite rare” to have so much bridge work in a road project but this was due to being on a flood plain.
The design of the ring road has been developed to provide a high level of flood immunity, similar to a one in a 100-year flood event and to 9.86m on the Rockhampton flood gauge on the Fitzroy River.
All of the land acquisition for the project was finalised on June 17.
The Department of Transport and Main Roads began liaising with property owners in 2018, with some properties vacated and others leased back to landowners as they wait for the construction to begin.
Fulton Hogan has expressions of interest job advertisements for the Rockhampton Ring Road Project for management, financial managers and controllers, consulting and general human resources, contracts and others on Seek online.
Attendees at the information briefing were able to speak with Fulton Hogan and Acciona and Bielby and BMD afterwards.
The presenter from Department of Transport and Main Roads was unable to do a media interview.
Package 1: South
The Southern Package is between the new Capricorn Highway intersection and Rockhampton Ridgelands Road.
Works for this package include:
- New intersections at Capricorn Highway and the West Rockhampton Connector Road and Rockhampton-Ridgelands Road intersection (Ambrose Road intersection)
- Bulk earthworks, drainage works, pavement, surfacing and ITS
- 10 x bridges totalling 4.1km: 1. Rockhampton Ridgelands Road on ramp: 848m
- 2. Floodplain: 985m
- 3. Nine Mile Road: 677m
- 4. Lotus #1: 67m
- 5. Lotus #2: 67m
- 6. Lotus #3: 67m
- 7. Floodplain: 407m
- 8. Ridgelands Road: 542m
- 9. Milner Road: 441m
- 10. Lion Creek: 61m (deck unit bridge)
Package 2: North
The Northern Package is the Ridgelands Road overpass to the Yeppoon Road intersection with the Bruce Highway, including the new 80m span Fitzroy River bridge, including 5,500 tonnes of structural steel and a concrete deck.
Works for this package include:
- New intersection at Alexandra Street
- Upgraded Rockhampton-Yeppoon Road intersection on Bruce Highway
- Bulk earthworks, drainage works, pavement, surfacing and ITS
- 8 x bridges, including Fitzroy River bridge
Procurement packages:
Accommodation: short term
Accommodation: long term
Anti-graffiti painting
Bearings
Bitumen surfacing/ asphalt
Clear and grub
Concrete fibre reinforced plastics: Bridge structures
Concrete fibre reinforced plastics: Drainage
Concrete fibre reinforced plastics: Miscellaneous
Concrete pumping
Concrete supply
Concrete coring and saw cutting
Corrugated metal pipe
Crane hire
Demolition
Diesel supply
Dilapidation survey
Drainage install
Electrical
Expansion joints
Fauna consultant
Fencing
Formwork and scaffold
General plant / equipment hire
Geotextile
Ground improvement
Guardrail
Kerb and channel
Labour hire
Landscaping
Linemarking
Materials testing
Noise barriers
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Piling
Pile break back
Pile liners
Precast concrete transport and erection
Precast supply: bridge structures
Precast supply: drainage
Quarry products
Reinforcement supply
Rock protection, gabions and mattresses
Safety equipment
Service location
Signage: Permanent
Signage: Temporary
Site office: Hire
Site office: Installation
Site office: Cleaning
Site office: Supplies
Slip form barriers
Steel fabrication
Subsoil install
Surveying
Temporary barrier install
Supply of road barriers
Temporary traffic management
Water and sewer relocation
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