Balfour Beatty has started work to deliver a £19 million infrastructure scheme designed to bring new jobs and investment to Norwich.

The scheme will include the construction of a roundabout, a triple span road bridge, eastbound and westbound slip-roads on to the A47, a new signalised junction to support the nearby park-and-ride site and a dual carriageway link to the Business Park.

Balfour Beatty will be using the latest Building Information Modelling technology to prepare the scheme, detecting for clashes of services, drainage and structures, as well as using the digital techniques for the scheduling and delivery of the project to customer Norfolk County Council by the end of next year.


Sustainability will be key to the delivery of the project with 100% of the excavated material used being recycled, much of which will come from the runway at the disused RAF Coltishall, approximately twelve miles away. This will avoid the need to bring in approximately 65,000 tonnes of quarried materials by road from outside the county avoiding extra traffic on local roads.

Preliminary work will start at the end of April, with main construction commencing in May 2014.

(CD/MH)