Client: Cala Homes West / Taylor Wimpey West

Value: £22m

Contract: Infrastructure Conditions of Contract with quantities

Project Description:

Full construction of the slip road, main spine roads and footpaths including multi-utility service infrastructure to facilitate a new development of 834 residential properties

Works Included:

• Bulk earthworks package
• 120,000m³ topsoil excavated
• 215,000m³ subsoil excavated and filled
• 185,000m³ rock excavated, processed to 6N and re-used on site
• Rock was excavated by a combination of ripping, mechanically breaking and blasting techniques
• 40,000m³ peat excavated
• 78,000m³ subsoil excavated, lime stabilised, and utilised to form a structural acoustic bund to the perimeter of the site
• Installation of over 1,400lin.m of 2m and 3m high acoustic barriers
• Over 6km of drainage pipes installed, up to 900mm diameter and at depths of up to 7m deep, with much of it in rock
• Utilised precast manhole bases (Easi-base) for quicker and safer manhole installation
• 3 SUDS ponds to adoptable Scottish Water specification
• 40m long arch culvert
• Installation of multi-utility trenches
• Installation of full street lighting network
• Full spine road and footpath construction including surfacing
• New toucan and zebra crossings
• Forming parking areas
• Plot works for 38 unit affordable housing development including foundations, sub structures, plot drainage, plot services, floor slab construction and all hard / soft landscaping

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