Rockhampton Ring Road: Engagement of contractors
Posted on July 6th, 2022
Capricorn Enterprise together with local business and Industry professionals attended an information briefing at the Frenchville Sports Club on the $1.065 billion Rockhampton Ring Road project in late June.
The engagement of contractors for each work package was announced with the 14.7km ring road project divided into two separate parts, being the Southern and Northern packages. The project will include 17.4km of new roads and more than 6km of bridging.
The Southern package contractor is joint venture Acciona and Fulton Hogan. This package will be the section between the new Capricorn Highway intersection and Rockhampton Ridgelands Road.
The Northern package contractor is joint venture BMD Group and Bielby. This package will be the Ridgelands Road overpass to the Yeppoon Road intersection with the Bruce Highway and will include the new 80 metre span Fitzroy River bridge.
Capricorn Enterprise Industry Engagement Manager, Frank Edwards, recognizes the value that attendees gained in the post-presentation networking opportunities with Fulton Hogan and Acciona and Bielby and BMD. Frank said, “All of the attendees who met with representatives from the head contractors were given insights into becoming involved with the project as it progresses.”
Key personnel from government departments provided a presentation on their involvement on the project in front of about 60 attendees from various industry businesses. Due to the location of the ring road across the Fitzroy River floodplain, the project will include significant bridge work and has been designed to provide a high level of flood immunity, similar to a one-in-100- year flood event and to 9.86m on the Rockhampton flood guage on the Fitzroy River.
Major works will begin in January 2023, pending the wet season, with some early works anticipated with site investigation, surveys and set up/establish site.
The work was expected to take three and a half years and contracts are expected to be finalised by the end of 2022.
All of the land acquisition for the project was finalised on June 17, as Department of Transport and Main Roads began liaising with property owners in 2018, with some properties vacated and others leased back to landowners as they wait for the construction to begin.
Fulton Hogan has already posted expressions of interest job advertisements for the Rockhampton Ring Road Project for management, financial managers and controllers, consulting and general human resources, contracts and others on Seek.com.au.
Southern Package
The Southern Package is between the new Capricorn Highway intersection and Rockhampton Ridgelands Road. Works for this package include:
- New intersections at Capricorn Highway and the West Rockhampton Connector Road and Rockhampton-Ridgelands Road intersection (Ambrose Road intersection)
- Bulk earthworks, drainage works, pavement, surfacing and ITS
- 10 x bridges totalling 4.1km:
- Rockhampton Ridgelands Road on ramp: 848m
- Floodplain: 985m
- Nine Mile Road: 677m
- Lotus #1: 67m
- Lotus #2: 67m
- Lotus #3: 67m
- Floodplain: 407m
- Ridgelands Road: 542m
- Milner Road: 441m
- Lion Creek: 61m (deck unit bridge)
Current and previous local projects – Acciona Construction Australia, formerly Lendlease Engineering, Abigroup and Baulderstone:
- Rookwood Weir
- Dingo to Bluff Rail upgrade
- Fitzroy Region TNRP project
- Gladstone Port Seawall
Current and previous local projects – Fulton Hogan Construction:
- Lawrie Street upgrade
- Rockhampton to Gracemere duplication
- Yeppen North project
- Fitzroy Region TNRP mega-project
Northern Package
The Northern Package of works with contractor, BMD and Bielby joint venture, is the Ridgelands Road overpass to the Yeppoon Road intersection with the Bruce Highway, including the new 80m span Fitzroy River bridge, including 5,500 tonnes of structural steel and a concrete deck.
Works for this package include:
- New intersection at Alexandra Street
- Upgraded Rockhampton-Yeppoon Road intersection on Bruce Highway
- Bulk earthworks, drainage works, pavement, surfacing and ITS
- 8 x bridges, including Fitzroy River bridge
Current and previous local projects – BMD Group:
- Carmichael Rail Network
- Mackay Whitsunday West package
- The Fitzroy package
- Caval Ridge
Current and previous local projects – Bielby Group:
- Bruce Highway upgrade: Cooroy to Curra
- Gladstone Aldoga Rail Line
Procurement packages:
- Accommodation: short term
- Accommodation: long term
- Anti-graffiti painting
- Bearings
- Bitumen surfacing/ asphalt
- Clear and grub
- Concrete fibre reinforced plastics: Bridge structures
- Concrete fibre reinforced plastics: Drainage
- Concrete fibre reinforced plastics: Miscellaneous
- Concrete pumping
- Concrete supply
- Concrete coring and saw cutting
- Corrugated metal pipe
- Crane hire
- Demolition
- Diesel supply
- Dilapidation survey
- Drainage install
- Electrical
- Expansion joints
- Fauna consultant
- Fencing
- Formwork and scaffold
- General plant / equipment hire
- Geotextile
- Ground improvement
- Guardrail
- Kerb and channel
- Labour hire
- Landscaping
- Linemarking
- Materials testing
- Noise barriers
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Piling
- Pile break back
- Pile liners
- Precast concrete transport and erection
- Precast supply: bridge structures
- Precast supply: drainage
- Quarry products
- Reinforcement supply
- Rock protection, gabions and mattresses
- Safety equipment
- Service location
- Signage: Permanent
- Signage: Temporary
- Site office: Hire
- Site office: Installation
- Site office: Cleaning
- Site office: Supplies
- Slip form barriers
- Steel fabrication
- Subsoil install
- Surveying
- Temporary barrier install
- Supply of road barriers
- Temporary traffic management
- Water and sewer relocation
