Road Systems

Launched in January 2011, the Australian National Ports Strategy provides a coordinated planning approach for Australian governments to help plan for port infrastructure and the associated road and rail linkages that connect these important gateways to all Australian cities and towns.

Through the provision of five themed background papers, several presentations and support at two stakeholder forums, one in Melbourne and the other in Adelaide, GHD assisted Infrastructure Australia and the National Transport Commission on the development of the draft strategy.

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In May 2009, the Labor Member for Eden-Monaro, Mike Kelly MP, announced that GHD would partner with the RTA for the Concept and Detailed Design of the HW1 Princes Highway Bega Bypass.  Since then work on the design, geotechnical investigation and review of environmental factors for the bypass has progressed significantly, with documentation for construction tender having been completed.

The project includes 3.6 km of two lane rural highway, three bridges connecting communities with the Bega township, four reinforced soil retaining walls and three intersections.  The purposes of the project are to accommodate B-Double movements and to create the potential for reduced crash rates in the area by creating better transport pathways for local communities and highway users.

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GHD was engaged by Muswellbrook Shire Council to conduct a review of the plans for the Bengalla Link and Wybong Roads that are being constructed as part of the approval requirements for the Bengalla and Anvil Hill Mines.

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The Brighton Bypass Projects are being undertaken for the Tasmanian Government’s Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources (DIER) and involve upgrading of the Midland Highway to the north of Hobart.  This includes the provision of an upgraded link between the East Derwent Highway at Bridgewater and the existing highway north of Pontville. The Brighton Bypass has been split into two sections, of which GHD is responsible for the design of the Northern Section project.

The Northern Section includes 4.8 km of new dual carriageway and 1.3 km of new two lane, two way highway, and includes a major interchange at Tea Tree Road and a roundabout at the existing Midland Highway. Structural works include a major new bridge over the Jordan River and smaller bridges over the Bagdad Rivulet and the Strathallan Rivulet a well as the structures associated with the interchange.

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The Bundaberg Ring Road is the biggest single investment a state government has ever made in the Bundaberg area.

When built, the Ring Road will provide motorists with an alternative route around Bundaberg, ease congestion on inner city streets and reduce travel time from the Isis Highway to the eastern suburbs.

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GHD provided civil engineering services for the renovation of an existing warehouse in Auburn, Washington. The warehouse was renovated so the Social Security Administration could provide a call centre to account for the upcoming increase of retirees in the national workforce.

Civil engineering services included grading, paving, storm drainage and utility design for the site.

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GHD Newcastle undertook the concept and detailed design and documentation for the Charlestown Bypass near Newcastle, as well as providing environmental, geotechnical investigation and traffic assessment services.

Representing a major road infrastructure improvement for Newcastle, the project involved designing a 6 km section of highway as part of the city’s inner city bypass. GHD designed a four-lane divided carriageway with three grade-separated intersections, six road bridges and a pedestrian bridge.

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GHD have been commissioned to design and construct bus priority lanes in the Christchurch CBD in order to alleviate the escalating congestion problem.      

GHD is in the initial design stage for the first of three bus priority lanes, along the Columbo Street corridor. The project involves the widening of this main arterial allowing for dedicated and on-peak-only bus lanes for travel into and away from the CBD. The lanes will extend for approximately 3.5 kilometres. Other design features include bus stop relocation, B-signals, PTIPS, cycle lanes and changes to roadside parking allowances.

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As part of the AusLink program, GHD is working with DOTARS to undertake three transport studies - the Adelaide to Darwin, Melbourne to Brisbane and Sydney to Brisbane corridor studies. These studies involve a description of the existing transport infrastructure, current freight and passenger volumes for all transport modes, demand analysis to forecast volumes to 2030 and an infrastructure efficiency analysis. GHD is also developing strategies and investment priorities for DOTARS so that existing infrastructure is upgraded to meet forecast volumes.

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The Bowen Basin mining boom in central Queensland is generating high demand for new industrial premises for mining services and supporting industries. This growth is boosting the expansion of the Paget Industrial hub, to the south of the Mackay city centre.

GHD has been engaged by the Mackay Regional Council to provide the civil infrastructure design for a new 70ha, 100-lot fully serviced development in Paget, on the site of a former sugar cane and turf farm.

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The upgrade of the intersection of Gahans Road and Bargara Road in Bundaberg, Queensland presented a challenge to overcome merging traffic issues. The design needed to incorporate the upgrade of a nearby street intersection and a cane train crossing.

Working for the Department of Main Roads on the intersection upgrade, GHD took into account traffic merging from a number of side streets into a major arterial road. The design allowed for an additional ‘fourth leg’ for traffic from the proposed Bundaberg Ring Road and the existing cane railway crossing.

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The GHD Beijing team assessed, designed and implemented a real-time bus monitoring, passenger information and dispatching system in Guangzhou.

The team were responsible for the development of the outline, functional and logical design of the system, and the dispatching and bus arrival algorithms used in the system.

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Highbrook Business Park in New Zealand is nearing completion after a twelve-year involvement by GHD.

GHD was part of a team of international designers who developed the concept for the 190ha Highbrook Business Park, adjacent to Auckland’s Southern Motorway. Highbrook Business Park has attracted tenants from a wide range of businesses and will eventually accommodate up to 12,000 employees in 550,000sq m of industrial and commercial floor space.

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GHD was engaged by the New South Wales Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) to quantify the biodiversity debits and offsets arising from vegetation clearing for the Hume Highway duplication, between Tarcutta and Mullengandra.

The environmental assessment for the project was undertaken under Part 3A of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act (1979). Under the Property Vegetation Plan (PVP) process, clearing of native vegetation at one site can be offset by condition improvements in native vegetation at another site. The purpose of this balancing process is to maintain or improve  environmental outcomes across the landscape, where clearing of low condition native vegetation is balanced by improvement of vegetation condition elsewhere. Therefore, the quality of vegetation in the landscape is maintained.

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The Headquarters Joint Operational Command (HQJOC) project is a signature project for the Department of Defence. It is both its first public-private-partnership project and the nerve centre for a new way of doing business, the Joint Operations Command.

GHD’s project management and technical adviser roles have ensured that Defence will be provided with a new facility that meets environmental objectives and is a state-of-the-art command and control centre.

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GHD has provided an innovative roading solution which seeks to protect irreplaceable national heritage sites the Kerikeri Mission House and Stone Store from flooding and traffic vibration damage.

The design saw not only the removal of the old river crossing in favour of a new pedestrian bridge but also construction of a 1.6 kilometre vehicle bypass over an alternate stretch of the Kerikeri waterway. 

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Building on its established track record of providing successful projects for the Gladstone Regional Council, GHD has been engaged to assist with the implementation of its Kirkwood Road Structure Plan for the southwest section of the city.

The plan was produced in 2004 and caters for a population increase of more than 5,000 people, and presents a blueprint for the future of an important part of the city. It includes the construction of Kirkwood Road from Dawson Highway to Gladstone/Benaraby Road, providing a number of new traffic routes from the area.

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RoseWater GHD provided plans and design of drainage, grading, paving, utilities, and temporary erosion and sediment control (TESC); and construction observation and support for a new
193,000 square feet high school in Auburn, Washington.

The development on the 40-acre site consists of buildings, paved pedestrian areas, parking lots (providing a total of 650 spaces), a bus drop-off area, four ball fields, a soccer/football track and field, and seven tennis courts.

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The GHD Beijing team delivered the city-wide ITS strategy for Nanjing in China.

The project required analysis of national and international experience and relevant case studies.

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GHD has a long-term contract to manage the entire traffic network for Auckland’s arterial and motorway networks.

This includes traffic signal optimisation, incident management, special events management and optimising traffic flows.

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GHD assisted the New South Wales Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) to improve road safety and reduce travel times on the Pacific Highway in Northern New South Wales. 

GHD's role involved the Woolgoolga to Wells Crossing and Oxley Highway to Kempsey projects. The scope of work included route option investigation, route selection concept design and extensive community consultation. An environmental impact study also looked at route selection to minimise impacts on sensitive environmental areas including endangered ecological communities, protected wetlands, national parks and nature reserves.

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The Southern Gateway Alliance, comprising GHD, Leighton Contractors and WA Limestone in partnership with Main Roads Western Australia, was awarded the contract to build the AUD11 million new Perth to Bunbury Highway.

Work on the project officially began on 21 December 2006 and continues throughout the southwest today.

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In a good demonstration of public authority and private industry cooperation, the Red Hill Road Bridge was successfully launched on 3 January 2007 by the project team of Wagga Wagga City Council (WWCC), GHD, Nelmac Pty Ltd and Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC).

The overall purpose of the rail bridge project was to link Red Hill Rd to the Olympic Highway.  Red Hill Rd is an arterial orbital road that traverses the south end of Wagga Wagga, generally in an east-west direction.  It ended at the south side of the Main Southern Rail Line but it was desired to extend the road underneath the rail line through to the adjacent Olympic Highway. 

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GHD was commissioned to evaluate the benefits of route optimisation for the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA).

GHD delivered a number of route optimisation reports detailing before and after evaluations using in-car groups to determine fuel, travel time and CO2 reductions of route optimisation.

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RoseWater GHD prepared utility, drainage and temporary erosion/sediment control designs for the five-mile long D755 segment of Sound Transit’s Link Light Rail project in Tukwila, Washington.

Services were provided for the construction bid documents and included drawings, specifications, Drainage Design Report, Utility Design Report, and quantity estimate. The project included aerial and at-grade sections of guideway, street improvements and parking lot redevelopment for a new station.

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In 2006, the Queensland Department of Main Roads appointed GHD as Project Manager of the $66 million upgrade of the Sunshine Motorway at Sippy Downs on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.

The upgrade provided a vital piece of infrastructure for a thriving residential, business and academic community.

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GHD was commissioned by Gold Coast City Council (GCCC) toprovide detailed design and documentation, construction stage design support, project management and construction superintendency services for the SPTMS. Project.

Construction was completed over three separate stages between June 2002 and August 2006.

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The 10-year Traffic Control Infrastructure Contract (TCIC) outsources responsibility for the maintenance and improvement of all Main Roads Western Australia traffic control infrastructure assets throughout Western Australia.

Projects successfully delivered under this contract include South Street Perth Variable Message Sign Project, Mitchell Freeway Vehicle Detection System Project and South Street Fibre Optic Backbone and Kwinana Freeway Fibre Optic Extension.

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The AUD$62 million Waiouru Interchange project represents a significant link in Auckland’s transport network. Manukau City Council and Transit New Zealand commissioned GHD as design consultant and then construction contract administrator on the project.

Key features of the project include two grade separated interchanges, the widening of more than two kilometres of motorway, the construction of local arterial roading as well as a large roundabout and a 200-metre long bridge. This challenging project required carefulcoordination to avoid interference with an adjacent power station cooling pond.

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In a joint initiative, the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA), Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) and the Otago Regional Council (ORC) commissioned GHD to carry out a comprehensive study which would inform future transportation decisions in Queenstown.

The solutions researched and developed focused on Travel Demand Management (TDM) and maximising the public transport services in the district. Since the completion of the study, GHD has been assisting stakeholders in implementing the recommended strategy.

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GHD was engaged by Blue Circle Southern Cement (BCSC) in Waurn Ponds, Victoria to project manage the grade separation of a quarry haul road and the Geelong-Warrnambool Rail Line.

When completed, the project will improve the efficiency and safety of access by quarry vehicles between limestone deposits that are currently traversed and separated by the rail line.

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GHD’s Beijing ITS team delivered this project, which is one of the most advanced intelligent motorway systems in China.

The project involved developing an architecture based on the National ITS Framework and Standards, and a function design that analysed user requirements.

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