EXPERIENCE

MAC Pitman's previous experience includes:

 Newport Southern Distributor Road  Newport City Regeneration Scheme
 Port Relief Road  Gloucester South West By Pass
 M6 Toll Road  New Tredegar Regeneration Scheme
 Barnstaple Western ByPass  Swindon Southern Development Area
 A465 Dualling Abergavenny to Gilwern  Ammanford Outer Distributor Road

  MAC Piman have undertaken work in conjunction with most of the UK's leading roadworks contractors such as:

Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Ltd  South West Highways
Costain Limited   Walters UK Ltd
Edmund Nuttall Ltd  Smiths (Gloucester) Ltd
Ringway Highway Services  Hanson Construction Projects
Dave Lucey  Alfred McAlpineCapital Projects
Norwest Holst Ltd.  

Here is some information on some of the contracts that we have worked on:

NEWPORT SOUTHERN DISTRIBUTOR ROAD

CONTRACTOR – MORGAN VINCI JV

Location: Newport, Gwent, South Wales
Client: Newport County Borough Council
Contract Value: £55 million

Start: 30th Mar 2002   Completion: 30th Mar 2005

Newport_Bridge_1.jpgThe SDR is recognised by Newport County Borough Council as its highest single priority scheme for the improvement of Newport’s principal highway network. This is a 9.3km urban highway on-line widening scheme to improve the flow of traffic through heavily congested industrial and residential areas on the south side of Newport. The route will bring major economic and environmental benefits, including improved access to major investment opportunities in the southern areas of the town and the relief of traffic congestion at critical points on the existing network.

It includes a major new landmark crossing of the River Usk, along with crossings of two railway lines. Ground conditions are mixed and include the need to cross a domestic refuse landfill site. Major statutory undertakers' diversions are required throughout the project along with significant third party liaison.


Insurance Levels & Types

Public Liability £5,000,000

Employers Liability £10,000,000

 

PORTH RELIEF

CONTRACTOR – COSTAIN LIMITED
Porth_Bridge.jpgWelcome to the Rhondda Valleys in South Wales and the new Porth Relief Road. The £84m project sponsored by the Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council and the Welsh Assembly is currently the largest civil engineering contract of its kind in the U.K. This exciting development which includes the construction of eleven bridges and features a bowstring bridge in the centre of Porth, tracks along the route of the old Taff Vale railway line which serviced the some of 18 coal mines between the middle of the 19th and 20th century.

The Porth Relief Road for Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council will consist of a single carriageway 7.3m wide, extending from the southern end of Porth at Trehafod (A4058) to a new roundabout on the A4233 at Pontygwaith, North of Porth, The relief road will follow the southern edge of the Rhondda valley, to Porth town centre, before proceeding in a North to North West direction along the Rhondda Fach Valley, mainly along the old railway link to Pontygwaith.