{"id":29979,"date":"2024-04-04T08:45:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T22:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infrastructuremagazine.com.au\/?p=51784"},"modified":"2024-04-04T08:45:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T22:45:24","slug":"contract-awarded-for-stuart-highway-upgrade-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=29979","title":{"rendered":"Contract awarded for Stuart Highway upgrade design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GHD has been awarded the $350,000 contract to design flood protection upgrades for an 8km stretch of the Stuart Highway near Daly Waters, on behalf of the Northern Territory Government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The work is part of the Federal and Northern Territory Government\u2019s jointly funded $217 million Northern Territory Industry Roads program, which will upgrade priority roads to support local industries such as pastoral, fishing and tourism enterprises.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The construction ready design will include an engineering survey and geotechnical investigation on this key transport and logistics route.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to providing flood resilience to this important section of the Stuart Highway, the project will improve connectivity, freight productivity and access, road safety and access to health and social services for remote communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The construction tender will be released once the designs are completed, with works to commence mid-2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roads Australia has said that planning is underway to determine the scope of the remaining upgrades to be delivered under the Northern Territory Industry Roads program, including engaging with industry and relevant stakeholders to ensure funding is directed to where it matters most for Territorians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Territory Government is also planning for and delivering long term upgrades along Central Arnhem Road, which connects Nhulunbuy to the Stuart Highway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Douglas Partners has been awarded a $990,000 contract to undertake geotechnical investigations on the Central Arnhem Road to inform three upgrade packages to improve flood immunity, road safety, travel time and accessibility.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GHD has been awarded the $350,000 contract to design flood protection upgrades for an 8km stretch of the Stuart Highway [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8202,8219,8207,471,8220,8214,163,8204,8203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company-news","category-contracts-awarded","category-disaster-management","category-news","category-nt","category-planning","category-rail-industry-news-australia-new-zealand","category-roads","category-spotlight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37912,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29979\/revisions\/37912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}