Mike Hawthorne Drive, Farnham

Project Info

  • Project Value

    £25,000

  • Category

    Surfacing

Job Title

Mike Hawthorne Drive, Farnham

Client

Waverley Borough Council

Description

Surfacing improvements at the end of Mike Hawthorne Road, Farnham, where it accessed an existing car park.

The gradient of the road was too steep and vehicles were grounding as they travelled up the slope. The remit was to remove the kerbs, excavate the old carriageway and reconstruct the road to highway standards.

Using a 5t excavator,  half the width of the road was dug out, removing 8 loads of spoil. recycled stone sub-base was imported, compacting with a twin drum Bomag120 roller before hand laying the base, binder and surface course macadams. Each side being completed before opening up to traffic.

The yellow no parking lines finished the job.

Construction

July 2018