Project Description
Full construction of the slip road, main spine roads and footpaths including multi-utility service infrastructure to facilitate a new development of 834 residential properties.
Works Included
- Bulk earthworks package
- 120,000m3 topsoil excavated
- 215,000m3 subsoil excavated and filled
- 185,000m3 rock excavated, processed to 6N and re-used on site
- Rock was excavated by a combination of ripping, mechanically breaking and blasting techniques
- 40,000m3 peat excavated
- 78,000m3 subsoil excavated, lime stabilised, and utilised to form a structural acoustic bund to the perimeter of the site
- Installation of over 1,400lin.m of 2m and 3m high acoustic barriers
- Over 6km of drainage pipes installed, up to 900mm diameter and at depths of up to 7m deep, with much of it in rock
- Utilised precast manhole bases (Easi-base) for quicker and safer manhole installation
- 3 SUDS ponds to adoptable Scottish Water specification
- 40m long arch culvert
- Installation of multi-utility trenches
- Installation of full street lighting network
- Full spine road and footpath construction including surfacing
- New toucan and zebra crossings
- Forming parking areas
- Plot works for 38 unit affordable housing development including foundations, sub structures, plot drainage, plot services, floor slab construction and all hard / soft landscaping