2:14pm Thursday 25th February 2010
INDEPENDENT engineering and environmental consultant, Gifford, has landed two motorway projects.
The Totton firm has been appointed to design gantry superstructures on the Bradford-Leeds section of the M62 between junctions 25 and 30 and for all the approaches to the M4/M5 interchange near Bristol.
Both projects are part of the Highways Agency’s variable speed limits and hard shoulder-running schemes.
Gifford is a well-established designer of motorway furniture, developing lighter-looking, less-cluttered gantries that take advantage of more efficient “plug and play” electronics and the reduced need for maintenance. Atkins is the scheme designer on behalf of the Highways Agency for both projects.
The M62 project requires 35 full-width gantries and 12 cantilever sign gantries providing driver information while the M4/M5 scheme will need 46 full-width and six cantilever structures.
“We have been evolving our current design range of motorway gantries to make them more efficient and economic to fabricate and erect,” said Gifford’s technical director, Simon Benfield.
“The structures are lighter-looking, which emphasises the signs and signals they support, making it easier for drivers to take in the information.”
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