Construction firm Balfour Beatty recently finished the last remaining single carriageway section between Barton Mills in Suffolk and Thetford in Norfolk, on behalf of the Highways Agency.
The scheme involved the widening of the route linking Suffolk with Norfolk to dual two-lane standard along its length and included the construction of a 5.8km bypass to the north of Elveden village in Suffolk. It also involved the construction of six new bridge structures, forming either underpasses or overbridges.
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330,000 tonnes of earth were moved during the project, which also involved laying around 140,000 tonnes of asphalt, lifting 1500 tonnes of bridge steel work and pouring 4000 cubic tonnes of concrete. Over 32km of drainage pipes and 50,000m3 of earth were replaced with gravel to take water away from the carriageway.
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