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What Lower Thames Crossing bosses want to see in contractors’ bids
Contractors bidding for work on the UK’s biggest roads job must embrace modularisation and demonstrate ways to save time and cost on the Lower Thames Crossing project.
Worth a combined £1.9bn, the Roads North contract covers the route from 1km north of the northern tunnel entrance to Junction 29 of the M25, while the Kent Roads job involves design and build for the part of the route from the A2/M2 corridor to 1km south of the southern tunnel entrance.
Speaking to
NCE ahead of the latest contracts launch, Lower Thames Crossing Roads North project director Andrew Thompson-Jones and Kent Roads project director Sue Hitchcock revealed what they are looking for from prospective bidders.
1 April 2021
For more than 65 years the Dartford Crossing has stood as the only crossing between Kent and Essex, a critical link carrying vital food, goods and services between the manufacturing centres, ports, and distribution hubs of the South East, Midlands and North of England. It is designed for 135,000 vehicles a day, but it now often sees 180,000 a day use it, leading to long delays which businesses across the country say act as a barrier to trade and jobs.
The Lower Thames Crossing will improve journeys by almost doubling road capacity across the River Thames east of London. The two successful bidders will build a total of 14.3 miles of new roads that will connect the longest road tunnel in the UK to the strategic road network. If given the green light this reliable new route will help to unlock a wealth of long-term economic benefits, as well as play an important role in the country’s economic recovery by supporting over 22,000 jobs during construction, including hundred