M62 team overcomes tough weekend mission

The National Contracting Bradford team was recently presented with a request straight from the Mission Impossible Bureau.

Balfour Beatty, working for the Highways Agency, asked them to plane out, re-lay and white line 13,500 square metres of Junction 29 of the M62 and slip roads for the M1 southbound and northbound over just one weekend.

To intensify matters they were instructed not to close any lanes during the daytime. Luckily, though, the tape didn’t self destruct and the team excelled in delivering the job to plan owing to excellent programming and hard work.

Four planers from National Contracting’s road planing division NRP, planed 3,200 tonnes of material in just ten hours, all of which was transported to a recycling facility.

Four gangs (three from Bradford and one from Birtley) worked in alternate shifts of two gangs to lay 3,320 tonnes of Heavy Duty Binder and 10mm of Masterflex, which was all produced from the Cross Green asphalt plant.

All surfaces were re-lined prior to the Monday morning re-opening. Paul Fleetham, director of National Contracting, said: “This excellent performance from our Northern and NRP teams reinforces our clients’ confidence in our capability as the UK’s leading road surfacing contractor. Well done all.”

20th August 2007