This presentation was given by Lawrence Shackman of Transport Scotland to delegates at the APM Scottish Conference 2015 which was held on 10th September at BT Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh.

1. Delivering the Forth
Replacement Crossing
APM Scottish Conference, 10 Sept 2015

2. Todays Presentation:
• Introduction
• Project Background & Scope
• Delivering the Project - Construction
• Speaker:
• Lawrence Shackman, Project Manager, Transport
Scotland

3. Key Points:
• Safeguards a vital connection in the country’s transport
network and supports sustainable economic growth
• Scotland’s biggest transport infrastructure project in a
generation, vital to Scotland’s economy
• Delivery - On time (complete by end of 2016)
• Under budget (current estimated outturn £1.35 to £1.4 bn)

4. Project Background &
Scope

5. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Forth Road Bridge
• Corrosion found in main
suspension cables
• approx. 10% loss of strength
(monitoring on-going)
• Bridge may close to:
– heavy vehicles from 2017
– all traffic from 2021.
• Increasing Maintenance
• Dehumidification & Acoustic
Monitoring
• Not practical to repair cables
2005/6

6. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Replacement
Crossing
• 5 corridors
• 65 options
Cable-stayed bridge
immediately west of
existing FRB
Initial estimate £3.2 to
£4.2 Bn
Ready by end of 2016
2006/7 Feasibility
Study

7. Transport Planning Objectives
• Maintain cross-Forth transport links for all modes to at least
2006 levels
• Connect to the strategic transport network
• Improve reliability of journey times for all modes of transport
• Increase travel choices and encourage use of alternative types
of transport
• Improve accessibility and social inclusion
• Minimise impacts of maintenance
• Support sustainable development and economic growth
• Minimise the impact on people, the natural environment and the
cultural heritage of the Forth

8. Programme
• Delivery of new crossing by 2016:
• Cabinet Decision to proceed end 2007
• Complete feasibility studies 2009
• Complete Design development 2009
• Submit for authorisation 2009
• Authorisation process 2009 - 2010
• Tendering process 2010 - 2011
• Construction period 2011 - 2016

9. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Design & Development
Fixed-price, Design &
Build Contract
Forth Crossing Act 2011
Competitive DialogueBill to Scottish
Parliament
2008/9
2010
2011
Specimen
Design
Environmental
Statement
2016 Project Completion
Construction starts
Surveys +
Modelling

10. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Deck - FRB
Deck – FRB with LRT in
future
Deck - FRC
Managed Crossing Strategy
• Makes best use of existing
bridge
• Ability to manage future
demand on both bridges
• Provides flexibility and
enhanced operation/
maintenance

11. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Intelligent Transport
Systems (ITS)
• Extends over full 22km
project corridor
• Variable mandatory speed
limits – manages traffic to
reduce congestion, thus
improves safety &
reduces emissions
• Variable Message Signs –
incident detection and
management provides
high quality driver
information

12. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Forth Replacement
Crossing –
Route Corridor
• Dual 2 & 3 lane m/way
standard road – the M90
• Public transport links
incorporating FRB
• New and improved junctions
 Reliable journey times
 Improved connections
 Increased Safety
 Minimise Environmental
impact

13. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Queensferry Crossing Selected Design
3 Mono Towers, Crossing Stay Cables

14. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEWBRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Bridge - Specific Features
• Wind shielding
• Wide hardshoulders –
Maintenance, emergencies
& future flexibility
• Use of the main crossing
hard shoulder as a bus
lane when FRB is closed
for high winds

15. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ –
Plan and Elevation
650m 650m
2633m
Cable
Stayed
Bridge
210m

16. Costs, Funding & Legislation
Costs (December 2008)
• £1.72 - £2.34 billion
• Rescoping of the project
has saved £1.7 bn
• Savings achieved through
less new road construction,
use of existing infrastructure
and narrower bridge (circa
10m)
Funding
• Design & Build contract
• Priority project for
Scottish Government
Legislation
• Parliamentary Bill
• Other forms not viable

17. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
The Procurement Process and linkage
with Parliamentary Procedures
Tender Process –
Principal Contract
• Issue documents - Dec 2009
• Client sponsored due diligence
surveys
• Initial design proposals dialogue.
• Bill feedback – changes to
Employer Requirements as
necessary.
• Conclusion of Dialogue period.
• Best and final offers Dec 2010
• Award- April 2011
Parliamentary Process
• Bill introduction - Nov 2009
• [Petitions]
• Stage 1 Debate - May 2010
• Stage 2 Consideration [Reporter
hears objections] - Sept 2010
• Stage 2 Debate - Nov 2010
• Stage 3 Debate - Dec 2010
• Royal Assent - Jan 2011
• Coming into Force - Feb 2011
• General Vesting Declaration
Construction
2011 to 2016

18. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
COST RANGE
Old: £1.45 to £1.60 bn
Now: £1.35 to £1.40 bn
(low inflation, good
governance, Oct 14)
FRC – Procurement:
Contracts & Cost
CEC/TSNCC
Opened Jan 2013
M9 Junction 1a –
Opened 1 Feb 2013
Principal Contract
Queensferry Crossing &
Connecting Roads -
Opening 2016
Fife ITS – Intelligent
Transport System
Opened 4 Dec 2012

19. Governance (Principal Contract)
Return of Tenders – 28 January 2011
• Review Scheme Economics
• Finalise Business Case
• Key and Gateway Reviews
• Scottish Government Approval
• Alcatel Period
Contract Award - 18 April 2011

20. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Project Timetable
• Jan 2008 – Project design & development starts
• Nov 2010 – Bill introduced to Parliament
• Dec 2010 – Principal Contract Tender begins
• Jan 2011 – Royal Assent – Forth Crossing Act
• April 2011 – Principal Contract Award
• Summer 2011 – Fife ITS & M9J1A Contract Awards
• Summer 2011 – Site works commenced
• Autumn 2011 – CEC Contract Award & Start Construct
• Dec 2012 – Fife ITS Operational
• Jan 2013 – CEC opens
• Feb 2013 – M9 J1A Opens
• Dec 2016 – Project completes

21. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Construction Approach to
Project Delivery
Governed by the
Code of Construction Practice:
• Overarching aim – least
practicable adverse impact on
communities and environment
• Includes mechanisms to control
construction & impacts, imposes
restrictions on the contractor e.g.
• Working groups
• Traffic routing
• Noise/air quality
• Working hours etc etc

22. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Role of Employer's Delivery Team
Monitor the Contractor’s activities re compliance with
the Contract and Forth Crossing Act, principally wrt:
• Programme
• Budget
• Quality inc audits
• Safety inc method statements etc
• Risk management
• Community liaison
• Environmental aspects
• Engineering
Plus overarching PM, governance and reporting

23. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Project Governance
Meetings
Construction
Management
Board
(CMB)
EDT
Discipline
Meetings
FRAG
Project
Board
Progress
Meeting
Informal
Meetings
Construction
Meeting

24. Delivering the Project -
Construction

25. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Delivery Strategy
• Variable mandatory speed limits
and message signs delivered
early on approaches to manage
junction and carriageway works
• also includes:
- Bus hard shoulder running
- Ramp metering
- Ferrytoll P&R enhancement
• Halbeath P&R by Fife Council
(opened 25/11/13)

26. FIFE ITS
John Graham (Dromore) Ltd
£13m

28. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Fife ITS - Opened 4 Dec 2012
• Traffic flows – similar flows since 2011
• Journey time savings – 3 to 8 min in peak period
• Bus Lane usage – up to 12 in peak period
• Accident reductions - average of 12 down to 3 in 1st year with 1
in the 2nd year

29. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
CEEQUAL
Excellent

30. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
M9 J1A
Sisk Roadbridge JV
£26m

31. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
M9 Junction 1a - Before

32. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
M9 Junction 1a – After

33. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
M9 Junction 1a – Opened 1 Feb 13
• A904 traffic flow through Newton – 24% daily traffic reduction
and 68% reduction in daily HGV traffic
• Journey time savings – 2 to 3 min in AM Peak from Echline to
Newbridge
• Bus Lane usage - up to 5 in peak period from FRB. Up to 4
from West Lothian (M9).
• Accident reductions - average of 10 down to 3 in 1st year and
0 in the 2nd year

34. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
CEEQUAL
Excellent

35. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Contact & Education Centre
and
Traffic Scotland Control
Centre
Dawn Construction
£3.5m
Opened Jan 2013

36. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
• Attained BREEAM Excellent award (Building
Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology)

37. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Engaging with Communities

38. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Contact and Education Centre
• Project
• Industry
• Education
• Stakeholder
• Community
• Ministerial and Senior Official

39. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Project Exhibition
10,915 visitors since Jan
2013, over 75 days
Schools Education
Programme
Academic year 13/14:
• 3600 pupils, 150 visits
Academic year 14/15:
• 5510 pupils, 228 visitsIndustry days summer 2015,
– 1000 attended
Over 35,000 people have attended activities since Jan 2013

40. FRC Online
• FRC Project website
• Queensferry Crossing website:
- Varied content
- Blogs
- Improved audio-visual content
- In-depth articles
• YouTube Channel - Over 37,000
views of various videos since
April 2014
• Twitter Account – use
@FRC_Queensferry

41. Principal Contract
Contractor – FCBC
£790m

42. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
The Team behind the Principal Contract
Client
Clients Advisor
Contractor
Contractor’s
Designer

43. Community Benefits - Training
• Training Places to be provided by Contractor
Annual Average of:
– 45 Vocational Training Places (421 @ July 2015)
– 21 Professional Training Places (71 @ July 2015)
– 46 jobs for long term unemployed (146 @ July 2015)
• Contract provides for financial deduction for any
places not provided.
• Also Modern Apprenticeships (12 at present)

44. Employment & Supply Opportunities
• 1266 people working on site – Aug 2015
• 36% of employees are from Edin/Lothian/Fife, 39%
elsewhere in Scotland
• Many more local/Scottish employed via supply
chain

45. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Connecting Roads South

47. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
April 2015

48. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Aug 2015

49. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
May 2015

50. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
February 2015

51. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Aug 2015

52. February 2015

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Aug 2015

54. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
July 2015

55. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Aug 2015

56. Queensferry Crossing
Plan View
Viaduct South Cable Stayed Bridge Viaduct North
Profile

57. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Queensferry Crossing
Looking from south to north (February 2014)
South Tower
Central Tower
North Tower
New carriageway
pushed from the
shore out across the
piers
Piers
Piers

58. February 2014

59. November 2014

60. Aug 2015

62. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Aug 2015

63. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Caissons
NT
ST
S1

64. 30 metres
32 metres

65. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW

66. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
South Tower Caisson: 16,869 m3  15 days
North Tower Caisson: 7,416 m3  7.5 days
Pier S1 Caisson: 4,600 m3  5 days
Underwater
Concreting

67. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Centre Tower
Beamer Rock

68. Test Blast
Production Blast

69. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW

70. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Tower Construction
Key features (per tower):
• Total Height: 210 m
• Number of Lifts: 54
• Std. Lift Height : 4 m
• Reinforcement: 2000 ton
• Concrete: 8000 m3
• Duration : 21 months
• Reinforced Concrete
• Hollow , Tapering section
• Access facilities for
maintenance (inc. lift )
• Steel anchor boxes –
dehumidification system
• Climbing formwork
14m
16m
3.3m
5.0m

71. December 2014
February 2014
North Tower
April 2015

72. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Aug 2015

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74. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
April 2015
Aug 2015

77. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Dock Facilities
Central
Tower
North
Tower
South
Tower
Precast
Shed
Segment
Storage
Marine
Office
Harbour
Facility
Loading
Quay
Main
Office
Concrete
Plant
South
Abutment
North
Abutment

78. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Offsite Steel Fabrication

79. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Transport to docks
Offloading to dockside
Transport within docks area

81. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Precast Sheds – Rosyth Docks

82. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Aug 2015
Precast Yard – Rosyth Docks

84. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Typical erection of deck sections

85. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
7 Sept 2015

86. Durability - Stay Cables
Parallel strands - galvanised, wax coated, 7 wires
per strand, helically ribbed HDPE duct

87. North Approach Viaduct
650m 650m
2633m
210m

88. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Aug 2015

89. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Aug 2015

90. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Connecting Roads
North

92. December 2014

93. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Aug 2015

94. NEW VRM NEEDED

95. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
April 2015

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Aug 2015

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98. September 2011

99. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW
Aug 2015

100. Thank You!
Q & A?

101. BRIDGE CROSSING ‘D’ – AERIAL VIEW

102. VRM- North to South

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