CIVILS AND INFRASTRUCTURE
INTRODUCING OUR NEW C&I CONTRACTS DIRECTORS
We were delighted when Scott Martin, who as Project Director has been one of the driving forces behind SEGRO Logistics Park Northampton (SLPN), accepted a promotion to one of two new Civils and Infrastructure (C&I) Contracts Director roles at Winvic. Alongside him, Russ Furnival, Project Director for SEGRO Park Coventry, will also step into a Contracts Director role. Scott will be focusing on public sector schemes, including frameworks with Lincolnshire County Council and National Highways which we talk about below, while Russ will oversee private sector projects.
All the external highways works at SLPN have now been completed and the rail terminal is now in a position to be jointly commissioned in Q2 2025 with Network Rail when the rail terminal will be fully operational. You can learn more about Scott’s role at SLPN and his career in a blog post he wrote in October. Russ brings 27 years of industry experience, skills and a passion for excellence, making him an ideal candidate for Contracts Director. Before his promotion, he was delivering the site wide infrastructure works at SEGRO Park Coventry, which comprised large scale remediation and earthworks, lime stabilisation, bund construction, S278 and spine road works and the installation of a foul pumping station, amongst other activities. Russ’ career has seen him rise through the ranks from Engineer to Senior Engineer, Agent to Senior Agent, and then to Construction Manager and Project Manager, working on a wide range of infrastructure projects, but he was the Managing Director of his own Civils company before he joined Winvic as an Operations Manager. These latest promotions underscore the continued growth and strength of our C&I team, further reinforced by Fin O’Brien’s promotion to Commercial Director. We wish them luck in their new roles, with their combined experience and dedication, we’re excited to see continued success of our C&I sector.
NEW PUBLIC SECTOR FRAMEWORK PLACE WON IN 2024
Our framework experience and private sector credentials put us in an excellent position to partner with public sector organisations and we have won a place on a new framework this year, not least due to our approach to health and safety, social value and sustainability. And in the same way as we promote collaboration in efforts to drive low and no carbon construction, we’re working alongside other public sector contractors to share our forward-thinking best practice – read more about the groups we’re involved in below. In February of this year, we announced that we had been selected as a contractor for Lot 5 of the Warwickshire County Council (WCC) Framework Contract for the Provision of Engineering and Construction Works. Projects under this Lot 5 will typically involve the construction – or the design and construction – of major highway, structural and other civil engineering works, including agricultural buildings and waste management site works. In preparation for our first project within the WCC Framework, we’ve been focusing on detailing compliance and operation processes, so we’re ready to hit the ground running. Our Social Value team has been busy planning a local strategy to deliver activities against the Themes, Outcomes and Measures (TOMs) set out by WCC. Once again, our operational competences, our exemplary Health and Safety record – including our Doing It Right cultural change programme – and our design, sustainability and project management credentials have illustrated that Winvic is a smart choice for public highways and infrastructure works.
THIRD PROJECT UNDERWAY FOR LINCOLNSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
We recently completed our third major improvement project as part of the Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) Highways Framework, which is designed to deliver new infrastructure assets and improvements across the county over a four-year period.
This third project was a planned five-month reconstruction exercise to fully rebuild Dysart Road in Grantham and the junctions of the adjoining side roads, which will require approximately 8,000 tonnes of material. As part of the project, we excavated and rebuilt the entire road in sections, redeveloped the carriageway, resurfaced and created new pathways. The project covers approximately two kilometres, from Dysart Road’s junction with Sankt Augustin Way to the A1 overbridge. To ensure public safety a westbound one-way closure on Dysart Road was in place and some full night-time road closure towards the end of the project.
Road reconstruction
Rob Cook, Managing Director for Civils and Infrastructure
“We are thrilled to announce the successful completion of our third highways project under the Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) highways framework. The delivery of Dysart Road’s major reconstruction is a testament to our team’s expertise, efficiency and commitment to excellence. Delivered effectively, ahead of schedule, and with minimal disruption to the local community, this achievement highlights our dedication to providing transformative infrastructure upgrades that bring tangible benefits to both local communities and road users. We are proud to have exceeded expectations on all three associated projects – A16 Marsh Lane, Boston; Newland, Lincoln; and now Dysart Road, Grantham. We look forward to continuing our collaboration with LCC and working on further infrastructure advancements for Lincolnshire.”
ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL HANDOVER IN LINCS
In our last Winvic Word we spoke about starting our first project under the LCC Framework, at Boston’s A16/Marsh Lane. We completed the works in January 2024, which comprised the widening of 3,070 m2 of carriageway, as well as the realignment and widening of the A16/Marsh Lane roundabout and installation of new drainage.
Mass traffic signals infrastructure works at the crossroad junction have also been completed, totalling 4,025m2 of carriageway treatment works.
- Over 3,000 tonnes of material excavated
- Nearly 20 new trees planted
- Over half a mile of new kerbing installed
- 35 new street lighting columns installed
- 10 new road crossings built, including six that are signalised
- Over three quarters of a mile of new foot/cycleway built
We were also delighted to find out in April that the scheme was commended in the Medium Project category in the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) East Midlands Merit Awards. And A16/Marsh Lane was a finalist in the Highways Awards 2024, selected for the shortlist of the Active Travel Scheme of the Year category. It’s been an exciting year for awards, and we want to say thank you and congratulations to the whole team.
Then in June 2024, we commenced our second LCC project in the Newland, which took us to the milestone of 100km highways constructed and maintained that was featured on page 3. As part of our social value commitments in Lincolnshire, we engaged with local schools on an art project, donated copies of the ‘When I Grow Up’ book – which shows different construction careers – to local schoolchildren, we sponsored the Greenbank JFC U9s football team and installed defibrillators on city centre site hoardings.
highways and roundabout improvement scheme
Charlotte Hughes, Senior Project Leader for Lincolnshire County Council
“The support provided by the Winvic team throughout the project was of a really high standard. They were quick to respond and supported the team throughout both the design and construction phases, by reviewing proposals, evaluating risks and helping us to deliver a scheme that met the challenging requirements of this project.”
TIME FLIES WITH NATIONAL HIGHWAYS – 116 PROJECTS COMPLETED IN THREE YEARS
It was in September 2021 when National Highways announced that we had a place on two Lots, in four regions within their Scheme Delivery Framework (SDF) meaning we’re in the second half of the six-year contract. They say time flies when you’re having fun, and we can hardly believe that we’ve completed a total of 116 schemes in 40 months and at the time of publication we’re on site delivering 14 different schemes across the country. The Lots pertain to work involving Structures, Waterproofing and Expansion Joints and Structures, Structural Services and Concrete Repairs.
Projects in the East region started to come forward in April 2024 and the first of many was a safety critical surfacing scheme at the A1M Junctions 6 to 10 northbound and southbound. We completed bridge joint renewals within the extent of the surfacing works in select lanes, which comprised installing Asphaltic plug joints in 10 lanes and Sawcut and Seal in new surfacing over buried joints across 6 lanes.
Here are some of our other recent and current projects.
Yorkshire and the Northeast
We’re making use of the existing scaffolding under Winvic’s M62 Ouse Bridge Expansion Joint scheme, which we spoke about in last year’s Winvic Word, as well as using MEWPS and an Underbridge Unit to deliver substantial surveys, which will inform value management for the preliminary design. Still on the M62, at Junction 25 east and westbound we’ve completed the renewal of Kirklees Viaduct North Elastomeric Bridge Expansion Joints project, while surveys are also being undertaken during the Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) period on four other significant structures in this region.
Southeast
On the A404 our primary focus has been to minimise disruption to local residents. We’ve been working closely with the Environment Agency while we refurbish a culvert, which carries a stream under the highway at Bisham Brook. A phased approach has been taken to deliver mainline, distributor and central reserve works on a scheme on the M20 comprising a full double bridge deck refurbishment, which spans the River Medway and Allington Rail lines and another full bridge deck refurbishment is to the A25 overbridge at Sevenoaks Bypass as it crosses the A21.
East
On the A14, we have a bridge joint renewal scheme underway within the surfacing works at Junction 44 and 47, east and westbound, and on both carriageways between Junctions 52 and 55 we’re delivering 45,000 metres worth of Sawcut and Seal in the new surfacing over the existing concrete road transverse and longitudinal joints. Four Sawcut and Seal and two Asphaltic plug joints have also been installed to bridges on the southbound M11 at Junctions 7 and 6 and the A47, between the Rackhams Road roundabout and Sparrow’s Nest in Lowestoft town centre, has had a road marking refresh, which we’ve undertaken in four phases.
Northwest
In this region we’re currently working on three projects in the ECI period, undertaking surveys and developing temporary works designs.
There is a particular focus on customer impact and we’re liaising with local communities, local authorities and stakeholders like Network Rail to minimise disruption.
National Highways Schemes Completed
RETURNING TO RUGBY FOR SIGNIFICANT ROAD UPGRADES
We talked about the completion of Symmetry Park Rugby for Tritax Big Box on page 7, but we’re not leaving the site just yet.
We’ve been contracted to deliver the final highways infrastructure and significant S278 external works to Coventry Road and Thurlaston Interchange, completing in February 2026. The bulk earthworks and the installation of drainage, ducting to street lighting, pavements and kerbing, fencing, CCTV, traffic signs and signals will all be undertaken under Traffic Management and we’ll finish off the project with landscaping. On the A45 Thurlaston Interchange, we’ll be upgrading the drainage, street lighting and road surface, and to install the new traffic signals, we’ll be creating six trenchless road crossings under the A45. These works will be carried out under day and night-time road or lane closures, guaranteeing the optimum balance between safety, minimising disruption and programme delivery.
trenchless road crossings for traffic signals
