CRL Highways Update
Paul Quinlan
22/07/24
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2024 has been a highly successful year for the CRL Highways Business Unit. We have exceeded our financial targets for the year end June 2024 and have also undertaken two of the most prestigious projects carried out by CRL to date – P65 and P78 at Oldbury. These contracts have involved repairing and renewing the supporting structures (bents) that support the M5 motorway between junctions 1 and 2, by repairing the concrete, followed by the installation of a cathodic protection (CP) system to future-proof the structures for the next 20 years.
Looking ahead, CRL Highways is now on the cusp of securing several new projects in Area 9 that will take us through into the next 12-month period and beyond. The types of works to be carried out vary between bridge lifts and bearing replacement, coupled with parapet replacement and deck waterproofing (Y Overpass), to blasting and painting of steel box beams.
In Area 7, we anticipate that the largest single CP project that CRL has ever undertaken will be awarded in the coming weeks. With a value of approximately £4mil and a program time of around 11 months, this will be a skills-intensive project requiring a high number of competent and experienced personnel to install a combined discrete anode and mesh and overlay system.
Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) with National Highways is the focus of CRL’s work in both Areas 10 (Northwest) & 12 (Yorkshire & East Coast) and will hopefully provide us with a stream of enquiries for our future workload. The principal ECI projects we are engaged with in Area 10 at present are a series of 7 over-bridges to the M6 motorway, where repair and refurbishment, supplemented by CP installations, are envisaged. A similar exercise will be carried out for Broad Lane, M62.
In Area 12, we have up to 11 ECI jobs that we are looking to become involved in, with the aim of converting these to construction stages in the following financial period.
In Area 7, we anticipate that the largest single CP project that CRL has ever undertaken will be awarded in the coming weeks. With a value of approximately £4mil and a program time of around 11 months, this will be a skills-intensive project requiring a high number of competent and experienced personnel to install a combined discrete anode and mesh and overlay system.
Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) with National Highways is the focus of CRL’s work in both Areas 10 (Northwest) & 12 (Yorkshire & East Coast) and will hopefully provide us with a stream of enquiries for our future workload. The principal ECI projects we are engaged with in Area 10 at present are a series of 7 over-bridges to the M6 motorway, where repair and refurbishment, supplemented by CP installations, are envisaged. A similar exercise will be carried out for Broad Lane, M62.
In Area 12, we have up to 11 ECI jobs that we are looking to become involved in, with the aim of converting these to construction stages in the following financial period.