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Pacific Motorway Upgrade

Client:  Queensland Department of Main Roads
Location:  Queensland
Start:  December 1997
Finish:  November 1999
Contract Type:  Construct only/Schedule of rates
Value:  $130 million
Description:  
The scope of work involved Leighton Contractors upgrading a 12-km section of the motorway from four to eight lanes. This is the longest section of the six packages of work that makes up the 42-km upgrade of the Pacific Motorway, which had a total value of around $500 million.

The contract included the construction of:
  • 400,000 square metres of plain concrete pavement;
  • four grade separated interchanges with bridges spanning the motorway;
  • five other motorway bridges;
  • three major culverts; and,
  • eleven kilometres of service roads.