“As a family-owned business we are at an optimum
level now,” said Mr Richards. “But operators are still the biggest challenge. It takes a lot of teamwork and there are a lot of bits to the jigsaw.” SMT GB have recently supported Walters with overcoming this challenge and, in conjunction with the A14 Integrated Team, provided Volvo simulators at two events aimed at engaging school leavers with the construction industry.
A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme Walters is a partner to the A14 Integrated Delivery Team which includes Costain, Carillion, Balfour Beatty and Skanska, working on the £1.5bn improvement of this crucial arterial road in Cambridgeshire. The project includes a major new bypass to the south of Huntingdon, widening parts of the existing A14, widening a section of the A1 and demolition of the existing viaduct at Huntingdon.
The project includes the construction of 30 new bridges and underpasses, 35km of new or adjusted road alignments, the creation of six borrow pits producing 6.5m3 million of material, 12 flood compensation areas and 60 drainage lagoons. In total, more than 12 million m3 of material will need to be moved over the next three years. Walters has been awarded the earthmoving packages for Sections 1, 2 and 3 of the five-section project. The firm currently has 70 dump trucks working on the site, a
number that is expected to rise to at least 100 ADTs by the summer of 2018. “We’ll need to move 20,000m3 per day,” says Rob Bashford, Walters’ Project Manager on the A14.
There are also 30 excavators at work, from 14 –50 tonnes operating weight, of which 20 machines are equipped with GPS machine guidance systems. Twenty-five bulldozers and 18 vibratory rollers complete the Walters fleet on site with the company employing 200 personnel across the project. Next year this could rise to 40 excavators between 14–90 tonnes and 30 dozers. On Section 3, the haul road is between 4–7km long, which is where the heavier articulated trucks are really earning their keep and proving their increased productivity. Once archaeological works have been completed this year, Walters will be able to bring in additional machinery to really get the earthmoving contract up to speed.
Bardon Hill Quarry Extension
The quarry at Bardon Hill in Leicestershire has been a feature of the local landscape for more than 100 years and now provides a European headquarters for Aggregate Industries. With permissions for at least another 40 years of rock extraction, the site is being extended, with Walters Plant awarded Phase One of the extension project.
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