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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
Farrans Contacts
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Introduction
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.
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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.
Client
Transport Scotland
Value
£320 Million
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.
M80 Stepps to
Haggs DBFO
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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Client
Glasgow City Council
Value
£3.5 Million
Shawfield Dalmarnock
Smartbridge
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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Client
Glasgow City Council
Value
£24.6 Million
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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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.
Client
SEC Ltd
Value
£7.2 Million
SECC Roads
and Utilities
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 coordinated 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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Client
Glasgow Harbour Ltd
Value
£24 Million
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.
Glasgow Off-Site
Highways
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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Edinburgh
Trams
Client
City of Edinburgh Council
Value
£16.8 Million
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.
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Client
DRD Roads Service NI
Value
£115 Million
The 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.
DBFO1
Westlink
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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Client
Dundee City Council
Value
£4.6 Million
Dundee Central
Waterfront
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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Client
DRD Roads Service (NI)
Value
£8.7 Million
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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