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The $292.9m Banora Point Upgrade at Tweed Heads is a complex, largely structural project featuring the upgrade of the Pacific Highway from four to six lanes. Located in a tightly constrained urban setting through the highest trafficked section of the Highway, the project consists of a 330m long viaduct, seven single span bridges, one temporary bridge, a 400m long, 22m deep rock and soft soil cutting, 19 permanent and temp reinforced soil walls and four significant operating interchanges over the 2.5km length.
One of the main challenges on the project has been highly complex traffic management and communicating the changing traffic conditions to the local community, businesses and other stakeholders. Environmental Management has also been a key focus, with programming of works, early construction of noise walls, construction of sediment basins and progressive vegetation among the measures implemented to minimise noise and vibration and prevent erosion and sediment loss.
For further information on the project, visit the Banora Point page on the New South Wales Roads and Traffic Authority.
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