Queensland
Department of Transport and Main Roads
January 2011 - December 2013
$111 million
Complete
The CairnsConnect team has delivered an outstanding result for the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads. The state commenced this project with a limited budget that made the targeted project scope difficult to achieve. The CairnsConnect team delivered this scope and more, all within the project budget. Their overall project and program management has been outstanding especially in the sometimes difficult and risky weather environment of tropical North Queensland. This efficient management of risk in conjunction with innovative design and construction methodologies has produced a budget underrun which has enabled additional investment in scope that has reduced the future maintenance costs of the infrastructure and at the same time provided enhanced community benefits.
Scope
At project completion, the project consisted of the following infrastructure:
- two grade separated interchanges, consisting of five bridges
- one by 460 metre composite steel truss pedestrian bridge
- two new service roads running parallel to the Bruce Highway
- pavement widening of the Bruce Highway and Ray Jones Drive to six lanes over the length of the project
- pavement rehabilitation over the length of the Bruce Highway and Ray Jones Drive
- relocation of the Mulgrave Mill cane rail
- upgrades to lighting and ITS infrastructure (including two new VMS signs)
- removal of two QR open level crossings
- noise walls, barriers, drainage, landscaping and other roadside infrastructure.
Outcomes
- CairnsConnect offered a better whole of life solution through collaborative contracting, a fully integrated team and collective ownership of risk. This delivered $9 million of additional scope within the project budget.
- An uncompromising safety culture produced an outcome 8.7 times better than industry average in a region unaccustomed to large scale infrastructure, with over 500,000 hours delivered lost time injury free.
- Developed innovative construction methodologies and strategies that managed both weather and geotechnical risk to the project enabling savings to be reinvested into additional infrastructure.
- Completed the overall project three months ahead of schedule in a tropical monsoon region, adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.
- Achieved an overall score of “outstanding” in all key result areas (safety, training, environment, stakeholder management, regional development, whole of life, program and commercial).
