Europa Way now helps ease traffic flow to the west of Ipswich while also revealing the area’s history, with archaeological discoveries of a 3,000-year-old Late Bronze Age settlement and cremation cemetery made prior to development.
Earthworks
Substantial earthworks shaped the new road using locally sourced recycled fill material (IBAA), reducing vehicle movements by 20% and cutting carbon emissions by 75%.
Drainage
New sustainable drainage systems (SuDS), including infiltration channels and basins, were installed to manage surface water runoff from the new link road and shared footway/cycleway.
Cycleways
A new shared footway/cycleway was constructed, with safe crossing points connecting to the new link road. Raised table crossings were installed across new access routes leading to future employment land.
Signage
Safety warning and directional signs for vehicles, cyclists, and pedestrians were installed, along with new road name plates.
Museum Street
Museum Street
A bus route lined with listed buildings, required resurfacing due to its deteriorating condition.
Works included carriageway resurfacing, kerb replacement, ironwork repairs, and new road markings.
Andrew Beck, HA Civils Director, said:
“Our teams worked hard overnight to limit the impact on public road users, passenger transport and work safely, on time and within budget. We always do our best to undertake the noisiest operations earlier on in the night to try and keep disruptions to a minimum”
Surfacing
2,120m² of carriageway resurfaced over 3 nights, laying 400 tons of AC20 binder and 200 tons of SMA10mm surface.
Kerbing
An old block-paved shared-use area was replaced with new bituminous surfaces, requiring kerb installations and tactile paving to assist partially sighted pedestrians.
Paco Patch
Defective ironworks were replaced using the PACO Patch mastic asphalt system, ensuring durability.
Road Marking
All existing white and primrose lines were reinstated.
Bar Hill
Shared Use Footway/Cycleway
A shared-use facility built to link two communities in Huntingdon.
Approx. 600m³ of unmade ground was excavated and stockpiled for reuse.
The footway/cycleway was constructed with a 500mm deep build-up, including stabilisation grids, fully edged and surfaced, then lined and signed.
Earthworks
Vegetation clearance over 3,201m² and excavation of 1,350 tons of soil, stored for reuse.
500 tons of recycled subbase were imported to form the new cycleway platform.
Kerbing
825 metres of new kerbing installed, Highway Assurance setting out engineer ensured the crossfall was maintained at 2.5% and a Longitudinally fall maintained at a minimum of 0.5%, so that Sufficient Surface water run off was achieved in order to maintain operability of the facility post construction.
Surfacing
280 tons of AC20mm binder and 70 tons of AC6mm surface course were machine laid over 3 days. Due to site constraints, alternative methods were used to deliver asphalt to the paver.
Harwich Port
Lorry Park
Improvement works at Harwich International Port’s lorry parking facility.
Hydroblasting removed existing bay markings, with new parking bays, trailer stops, and segregated walkways installed to improve site safety.
Geoffery Bishop Avenue
Drainage Scheme
It was identified the area suffered from severe flooding during heavy rainfalls. The system proposed was to provide additional storage and outfalls.
Highway Assurance installed:
- 12 new concrete gullies
- 8 chambers
- 1 attenuation chamber
The entire road was machine resurfaced once drainage works were completed.
Lidl
Brand New Lidl Supermarket
The store was built on an old factory site in Radwinter Road Saffron Walden.
278 Works
- New widened highway entrance
- Structural retaining wall
- Traffic signal upgrade
- Footpath and carriageway surfacing
S50 Works
- New stormwater connection
- 2 Hydro Brake chambers
- Quadraceptor filtration chamber
- Highway manholes and gullies
- Sewer connection for the store