RECORD BREAKERS: 50M CONCRETE BEAMS

摘要

The N22 Ballyvoumey to Macroom project in County Cork includes the construction of 22km of dual carriageway. The road is being constructed through challenging terrain that varies through the development, from hilly remote land with rock outcrops at the western end, to low-lying pasture lands to the east of Macroom and will cross a landlocked section of the Inniscarra Reservoir to the south-east of Macroom. This is one of the largest infrastructure projects underway in Ireland at the moment, with the current programme for this design and build contract envisaged to be completed by mid-2023. The £239m project includes the construction of 130 structures, with 21 road bridges, 21 accommodation structures and a number of culvert structures. It also includes crossings over the Sullane, Laney and Bohill rivers - each one a challenge and each one a record-breaking structure. The Macroom bypass project is engineering at its most spectacular.