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Road Improvement scheme wins
environmental award
An improvement scheme to widen the A470 in Wales has gained a CEEQUAL 'Whole Project Award'.
An improvement scheme to widen the A470 in Wales has gained a CEEQUAL 'Whole Project Award' The Award assesses the combined environmental performance of the client, designer and contractor
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 22 Jul 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The A470 Dolwyddelan to Pont-yr-Afanc Improvement Scheme achieved an 'Excellent' award with a score of 83.7 per cent.
The principal project partners were Transport Wales, Welsh Assembly Government; Halcrow Group ; WynThomasGordonLewis ; Laing O'Rourke Civil Engineering and Arup.
The project was an online widening of the existing single carriageway which is part of the main trunk road between Cardiff and Llandudno Critical parts of the A470 construction programme were the steep and wooded valley sides of the nationally designated Snowdonia National Park and mitigating the environmental impacts of the project.
The successful completion of the improvement has been a major achievement.
Crucial to it's success has been the careful design and programming, innovation in construction, diligent application of the Environmental and Quality Management Systems, and the establishment of good relationships between the project partners, the local community and statutory bodies.
It enabled the scheme to be substantially completed five months ahead of programme despite the environmental constraints, weather conditions and challenging terrain.
CEEQUAL is an awards scheme assessing the environmental quality of civil engineering projects.
Its objective is to encourage the attainment of environmental excellence in civil engineering projects, and thus to deliver improved environmental performance in project specification, design and construction. Request free introductory details about products from CIRIA ...
To find out more about CEEQUAL, visit www.ceequal.com or email ceequal@ciria.org.
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