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Kempsey to Armidale Road Project, NSW

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Client

GHD

Location

NSW

Project value

$406 million

Services

Cost Engineering

The Kempsey-Armidale Road is an important corridor, linking Armidale and the coast. The road supports the local community and agriculture and tourism industries in the Armidale and Kempsey regions.

The Kempsey-Armidale Road is an important corridor, which links Armidale and the coast. The road also supports the local community and agriculture and tourism industries in both the Armidale and Kempsey regions.

The road was severely damaged by bushfires at the end of 2019 and subsequent flooding in 2020 and 2022:

The scope of works for the overall project has been classified into two categories and four separate projects:

Natural Disaster Recovery Works (ch72.95km - ch116.00km) comprising restoration of a 43km section of the Kempsey-Armidale Road and a 5.1km long section of Lower Creek Road, Lower Creek, to their pre-disaster conditions;

Improvement Works Projects comprising the following three projects:

  1. Blackbird Flat - Fixing Local Roads, Blackbird Flat Cutting (ch73.50km-ch74.05km) which includes sealing this section of pavement;
  2. Flying Fox - Fixing Local Roads, Flying Fox Cutting (ch86.30km-ch88.15km) which includes sealing this section of pavement; and
  3. Big Hill - Restart NSW, three curves on Big Hill, (ch112.888km - 113.193km, and ch108.563km – ch108.723km), with these three curves being constructed as unsealed pavements.

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