National Highways in the United Kingdom has announced its Preferred Bidder for the GBP 1.25 billion contract for the tunnel and main construction work for the A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down scheme past Stonehenge. To maintain programme timescales whilst awaiting confirmation of UK planning consent, National Highways has selected the MORE JV, comprising of Milan Italy Headquartered construction & civil engineering specialist Webuild with 42.5% share, FCC Construcción and BeMo Tunnelling, as its preferred contractor for the works.The announcement follows a robust procurement process, a major part of which required shortlisted tenderers to develop their design solutions and demonstrate these as compliant with National Highways requirements.The proposed upgrade of the A303 between Amesbury and Berwick Down includes8 miles of free-flowing, high-quality dual carriagewayA tunnel at least 2 miles long underneath the World Heritage Site, closely following the existing A303 route, but a further 50 metres away from the Stonehenge monument, avoiding important archaeological sites, and avoiding intrusion on the view of the setting sun from the stones during the winter solstice A new bypass to the north of the village of Winterbourne Stoke Junctions with the A345 and A360 either side of the World Heritage Site.
National Highways in the United Kingdom has announced its Preferred Bidder for the GBP 1.25 billion contract for the tunnel and main construction work for the A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down scheme past Stonehenge. To maintain programme timescales whilst awaiting confirmation of UK planning consent, National Highways has selected the MORE JV, comprising of Milan Italy Headquartered construction & civil engineering specialist Webuild with 42.5% share, FCC Construcción and BeMo Tunnelling, as its preferred contractor for the works.The announcement follows a robust procurement process, a major part of which required shortlisted tenderers to develop their design solutions and demonstrate these as compliant with National Highways requirements.The proposed upgrade of the A303 between Amesbury and Berwick Down includes8 miles of free-flowing, high-quality dual carriagewayA tunnel at least 2 miles long underneath the World Heritage Site, closely following the existing A303 route, but a further 50 metres away from the Stonehenge monument, avoiding important archaeological sites, and avoiding intrusion on the view of the setting sun from the stones during the winter solstice A new bypass to the north of the village of Winterbourne Stoke Junctions with the A345 and A360 either side of the World Heritage Site.
