Fairhurst was appointed by The Highland Council to provide multidisciplinary engineering services for the realignment of a section of the A836 and replacement of the existing river crossing at the tidal River Naver.
Fairhurst commision included services in highways design, drainage, environment and planning, bridge design, geotechnical design and hydrology to develop the project from concept design to delivery of NEC4 Option A Contract documents.
The project required investigation and development of the scheme within an environmentally sensitive and highly constrained site in a remote location of the United Kingdom that is popular with tourists.
The services included in the commision were:
- Production of highway alignment and bridge concept options report with recommended option to develop through to construction
- 3D visualisation of the scheme to assist discussions with stakeholders
- Liaison with statutory authorties to achieve planning consent and marine licence for construction
- Technical approval of highway structures
- Geotechnical investigation scoping and supervision services
- Hydrology investigations including tidal, climate effects and construction stage modelling
- Detailed design of 3 span prestressed beam bridge
- Site Supervision and project close out
