A63 road project wins national engineering award
BBCA major road project in Hull has won a UK engineering award.
The A63 Castle Street scheme beat off competition from a road improvement scheme in Cornwall and a Scottish windfarm to win its category in the Ground Engineering Awards at a ceremony in London last week.
Judges described it as a "truly innovative design-enabled construction of a key piece of national infrastructure considered extremely challenging to build".
Work started on the £355m project in 2020 and it was due to be finished by April 2025, but was delayed by a year due to "extremely challenging ground conditions", according to National Highways.
The scheme saw the building of a new split-level junction that involved lowering part of the busy road through an underpass.
Frances Oliver, senior project manager at National Highways, said: "Construction of the A63 underpass was one of the most complex engineering challenges in the UK and we are delighted that the efforts of everyone who worked on the scheme have been recognised with this award.
"This new road layout has increased connectivity between the centre of the city and the port and other leisure activities, boosting the local economy and tourism, and it's great to see the positive impact already being felt."
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