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Introduction

M80 Stepps to Haggs DBFO

Shawfield Dalmarnock Smartbridge

East End Regeneration Route

SECC Roads and Utilities

Glasgow Off-Site Highways

Edinburgh Trams

DBFO1 Westlink

Dundee Central Waterfront

Foyle Bridge Strengthening

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Farrans is a building and civil engineering contractor operating throughout the UK, Ireland and numerous European locations. We are part of the Northstone group of companies which in turn is wholly owned by the multi-national building materials group, CRH plc.

Operating from our Belfast headquarters and regional bases in Dublin, Edinburgh, Manchester, Cambridgeshire, London and Romania, the Farrans business is structured into two primary divisions: Building and Civil Engineering. The sectors we have developed within these core divisions range from education, healthcare, emergency services and community projects to regeneration, investment, residential and transportation. We have also made significant progress in the marine, pipelines, renewables, water and wastewater sectors, as well as undertaking a number of frameworks in recent years.

Farrans strive to develop excellence in all sectors of our business and continually better the levels of service we deliver to our customers. At the heart of this approach is a genuine recognition of our wider social responsibility. We acknowledge that we share our workplace with communities and the natural environment; therefore it is vital that sustainable business practices are implemented across all areas of operation.

At Farrans, our financial strength and technical expertise is complemented by a commitment to the values of Health & Safety, Quality and the Environment. In accordance with this, our ISO-accredited management systems are all developed in line with industry best practice.

Introduction

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This £320 million contract for the design, construction, 30 year operation and maintenance of the M80 between Stepps and Haggs was awarded to Highway Management (Scotland) Limited, a joint venture involving Farrans Construction. We were involved as an equity shareholder in the DBFO Company and as a JV partner in the design and build consortium.

This project comprised of the construction and improvement seven grade separated junctions, 59 structures, the demolition of properties and bridges, the development of new access roads and side roads and the realignment of existing access roads and side roads. We also carried out carriageway drainage, including the construction of sustainable urban drainage system (SUDS) attenuation ponds and making improvements to the existing A80. The road continued to cater for 75,000 vehicles per day during the construction phase. Farrans’ implementation of excellent traffic management measures ensured that two lanes of traffic were operational throughout and disruption was minimised.

The scheme can be considered as three discrete sections:

Stepps to Mollinsburn Approximately 8km diverging from the existing M80 at Stepps, passing through agricultural land to the north of Muirhead, Moodiesburn and Chryston, rejoining the route of the existing A80 at Mollinsburn.

Mollinsburn to Auchenkilns Approximately 2.7km of road was upgraded along the route of the existing A80.

Auchenkilns to Haggs 7.3km of the existing two-lane A80 to motorway between Auchenkilns and Haggs was upgraded, providing hard shoulders, climbing lanes and junction improvements.

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Transport ScotlandValue £320 Million

This contract included the construction, completion and maintenance of a 90m three span footbridge and two retained access ramps, crossing the River Clyde between the Shawfield and Dalmarnock areas of Glasgow.

Structurally, the end-product takes the form of a butterfly arch bridge with two arches inclining outward. The deck is supported from the arches by cable stays. Further construction will also take place on the eastern side of the river to connect the bridge with an existing riverside walkway/cycleway.

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SmartbridgeShawfield Dalmarnock

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Glasgow City CouncilValue£3.5 Million

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East End Regeneration Route

The East End Regeneration Route was a design and construction project with a five year maintenance period. It delivered a new, four lane, 2.4km single carriageway. This included bridge structures as part of the three phase scheme to provide a transport route from the M74 to the M8/M80 motorways in the East End of Glasgow.

Construction of the new carriageway involved site clearance, earthworks, pavements, kerbs, footpaths and cycleways, drainage with swales and SUDS detention ponds. It required road markings and signs, traffic signals, street lighting, fencing and landscaping as well as accommodation works. The diversion of utilities to integrate with the design was also managed by Farrans.

Due to the industrial history of the area, the design also included both an archaeological watching brief and classification with onsite treatment of contaminated land.

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Glasgow City CouncilValue£24.6 Million

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SECC Roads and Utilities

As part of the SECC master plan to redevelop their complex, they required Farrans to facilitate the creation of three new sites known as the Sustainable Village. This project included the development of new Roads and Infrastructure to allow for the creation of these sites, located on existing SECC car parks west of the main SECC building.

The new, multi-purpose National Arena, sited on car park land east of the main SECC building and the East Development Site, included a multi-storey car park, hotel and office development.

As part of the planning agreement for the master plan, Farrans restructured almost all of the roads and public space around the site. This required the construction of approximately 1km of new 7.3m wide road infrastructure either side of the main SECC complex, linking the existing road network at Finnieston Street to the east and the Glasgow Harbour Link Road to the west.

Existing utilities had to be diverted out of the construction zone of the new arena, providing new utility connection points for a development plot to the east of the site.

The works covered a cross section of private parking lots, council roads and footways and open public space. Farrans co-ordinated the plan of work to take cognisance of prolific peaks in the vehicular and pedestrian traffic arising from the SECC’s ongoing events calendar. Given that there were major variations between peak and off-peak volumes of traffic in the area, the works programme was scheduled accordingly, minimising disruption and optimizing productivity. Farrans co-ordinated with key users of utility services in order to implement major diversions and install new services on the site. To achieve best value, we undertook all the civil works, liaising with the various companies to install their equipment to service trenches within the site. This approach gave us tighter control of the programme and consequently reduced the risk and cost for SECC quite significantly.

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SEC LtdValue£7.2 Million

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Glasgow Off-Site Highways

This £24m roads and bridges project for Glasgow Harbour included a series of major road works which focus on the regeneration of Clydeside along the Clydeside Expressway, an important route in Central Glasgow connecting the north/west of the city and the city centre, linking to the motorway network and the Clyde Tunnel also.

These road works included the construction of a major road bridge over the River Kelvin, two new road bridges and a high-quality pedestrian footbridge over the Clydeside Expressway. In addition, the contract involved the rehabilitation of the local road network, extensive utility diversions and major traffic management measures.

As part of the design phase of the contract, Farrans’ design team applied for permission to outflow the site drainage into both the River Clyde and Kelvin. To achieve the required standard in water quality, set by SEPA, a number of SUDS systems were constructed to treat the surface water before it was released into the rivers. These systems included Aquacell storage units, filtration trenches, downstream defenders and hydrobrakes that control the volume and quality of the water being released.

Across much of the site, the existing infrastructure was removed and replaced so that a vast amount of material was recycled, minimising the amount removed from site. All the earthworks’ inert clay material produced was processed using lime stabilisation so that it could be reused as fill material elsewhere on the project. In addition, the entire length of the Clydeside Expressway within the site was planed up and processed for reuse in the new road construction. A considerable amount of waste material was also imported from a number of the client’s other construction sites. We subsequently processed this and reused it on the project.

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Glasgow Harbour LtdValue £24 Million

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EdinburghTrams

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Farrans constructed the 2.7km long, Section 7 of the Edinburgh Trams Network for the City of Edinburgh Council. The entire tram network represents an investment of over £750million and involved the construction of 16 tram stops across the 14km route, providing fast and efficient connections between the city centre and Edinburgh Airport.

For section 7 of the Trams Network, we constructed the line from the depot at Gogarburn to Edinburgh Airport, incorporating all necessary earthworks, drainage, ducting and piled foundations for overhead line equipment. Concrete structures included the 16m span Gogarburn Bridge, precast construction on site and the installation of three reinforced concrete box culverts. Additionally, this project required us to reinforce the earth embankment through the Gogar Landfill area and a 310m long secant piled retaining wall within Edinburgh Airport.

To construct the Airport Retaining Wall, we diverted the Gogarburn within the Airport. This required considerable planning in relation to flood modelling, all of which was completed within a very narrow working corridor and a single point of access. We also constructed three tramstops - Gogarburn, Ingliston Park and Ride and Edinburgh Airport.

ClientCity of Edinburgh Council

Value£16.8 Million

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DBFO1WestlinkThe Roads Service DBFO Package 1

was Northern Ireland’s first privately financed road project. Farrans were an equity shareholder in the DBFO Company awarded the 25 year concession and delivery partner for the £115m design and build project.

This project comprised 4 key schemes:Scheme 1 was the largest scheme and involved the asymmetric widening of 4.5km of the M1 motorway and A12 dual carriageway. This required the construction of two major grade separated junctions and culverting of two major water courses. All work was carried out within a busy, urban environment.

Scheme 2 involved the construction of the new motorway slip roads to service the Antrim Area Hospital.

Scheme 3 involved online widening to three lanes along 6km of the M2 motorway. This required the replacement of the central reserve barrier and three over bridges, necessitating carriageway lowering and the upgrade of existing motorway bridges.

Significant upgrade and improvement works were carried out to the existing motorway communications.

Scheme 4 required motorway communication works not covered in the other schemes.

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DRD Roads Service NIValue£115 Million

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ClientDundee City Council

Value£4.6 Million

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WaterfrontDundee Central

This project was part of infrastructure works initiated to redevelop Dundee City Waterfront. It required the movement of the elevated westbound exit ramp of the Tay Road Bridge (ramp D).

To facilitate this structural modification, phase 1 involved moving the central reserve in order to provide two lanes down Ramp C where it joins South Marketgait. Additionally, the at-grade widening of Ramp C was needed to provide a 4 lane approach to a new signalised junction. A diversion of the Hatton Rising Main, which carries pumped foul water in a west/east direction through the site, was also required. We oversaw the temporary relocation of the Telford Beacon that eventually became permanent.

The second phase involved the realignment of the Southbound Marketgait to facilitate future developments including the construction of the new off-ramp for the Tay Road Bridge.

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Foyle Bridge Strengthening

The Foyle Bridge was opened to traffic in May 1984. The bridge consists of three main spans of steel box girder and seven smaller spans of concrete stressed box girder. Strengthening works involved the fabrication of approximately 1200m of 508mm steel circular tubes that are attached to the bottom flange of the steel box girder. An innovative jacking system stresses the tubes to loads in the region of 200 tonnes creating a prestress and providing additional bending moment capacity. Other work on this project included the installation of 500 tonnes of plate steel, used as strengthening in various locations throughout the box girder.

Access for all strengthening was granted through four 3m long openings made in the deck of the bridge. Material was then dropped down onto a temporary runway system and moved into location.

We also replaced the mastic asphalt surfacing of the bridge and carried out maintenance painting to its outside.

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DRD Roads Service (NI)Value£8.7 Million

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Head OfficeBelfast99 KingswayDunmurryBelfastBT17 9NU

Telephone: +44 (0) 28 9055 1300

DublinRosemount Business ParkBallycoolinBlanchardstownDublin 11

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EdinburghOakbankMid CalderLivingstonWest LothianEH53 0JS

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ManchesterLowry House17 Marble StreetManchesterM2 3AW

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LondonLenta Business Centre180/186 King’s Cross RoadLondon WC1X 9DE

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