Thaxted Essex England UK. Major resurfacing work for 7 nights 5 April to 12 April 2019 Night Work: Photograph shows the busy night scene as workers fr
Thaxted Essex England UK. Major resurfacing work for 7 nights 5 April to 12 April 2019 Night Work: Photograph shows the busy night scene as workers from Ringway Jacobs Ltd Civil Engineers based in Chelmsford lift the old road surface of the B184 road, a method called 'Planing', that runs through the centre of the medieval town of Thaxted before resurfacing the road with new material. Ringway Jacobs are working on behalf of Essex County Council. The contract for the 6,826 square meter work at £30 per metre is costed at just over £200k. Information supplied by ECC Press office: Carriageway Machine Resurfacing Carriageway resurfacing will usually involve planing off all or some of the existing surface and removal of this material from site. The planed area will have the manholes and gullies adjusted and replaced if required. A bitumen spray coat will then be applied and the new surfacing laid. The surfacing will consist of either one or two separate layers, dependent on the shape and condition of the underlying road structure. This is a more substantial, deeper new surface than for example Surface Dressing. This treatment is used where the road is badly worn and needs to take perhaps heavy traffic and last a long time. It is expensive and slow. We try to manage roads with patching and other surface treatments to avoid the necessity for this intensive, expensive process, but eventually it becomes necessary. The cost of machine surfacing (also known to engineers as “inlay” work) is usually around £30 per square metre, depending on the type of road, the traffic management required and the exact depth/type of treatment required and the contract. The total cost of this scheme is budgeted at well over £200,000. Because the road is busy, what we call “traffic sensitive” the work is carried out at night, in this case between and 5am, the disadvantage being that the planing or milling process which removes the existing road surface is done by very powerful
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