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31:08:2010
Integrated team delivers efficiencies in West Sussex
The carriageway is being resurfaced in sections, with each section treated as an individual project with its own health and safety plan. The work is being carried out overnight (8pm to 5am) to minimise inconvenience to road users and improve safety for those on site.
Two key project teams comprising employees from West Sussex County Council, May Gurney and supply chain partners have been formed to ensure maximum efficiencies are achieved.
The resurfacing project team consists of project managers and senior engineers who are managing the works, together with supply chain partners Aggregate Industries and Bellstan who are carrying out the resurfacing.
The road maintenance project team consists of agents and engineers whose role is to co-ordinate various road maintenance works during the carriageway resurfacing, including gully emptying, tree cutting, crash barrier repairs, bus stop improvements, hedge trimming, renewed road markings, studs and sign improvement.
Richard Collins, general manager for May Gurney in West Sussex, said: “In the challenging economic climate we continue to find ways of delivering value for money.
“Managing and co-ordinating a scheme of this scale and importance is challenging but we’ve taken one step further. We’ve maximised delivery of works through joint project alliance teams.
“This means that while the main work of carriageway resurfacing is underway, essential maintenance works like crash barrier repairs are accomplished at the same time, under the same road closure. It removes the need for future disruption, reducing cost and time in the long run.”
The scheme is scheduled to be complete, weather permitting, by 12 September.
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