Balfour Beatty awarded £104M road scheme for Norfolk Road Network

Balfour Beatty today announced it has been awarded £104M by Norfolk County Council, to complete works on the Norwich Northern Distributer Road (NNDR).

The new road will serve Broadland, Norfolk, and improve access to North Norfolk and Norwich International Airport, with better links to Great Yarmouth and the south of the region.

Balfour Beatty was awarded the Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) phase of the NNDR scheme in 2009.

Balfour Beatty will construct the new dual carriageway, which will be 19.6km long and include nine new roundabouts, seven new bridges, an underpass and a more complex two level junction. The new dual carriageway will run from the A1067 Fakenham Road, crossing the A140 at Norwich International Airport and joining the A47 at Postwick, at the eastern end of Norwich Southern Bypass.

Roads around the north and east of Norwich will be less congested once the work is completed, improving capacity for future growth in jobs and housing.

Around 500 construction jobs will be created for the project, which will commence this winter and is due to be completed in late 2017.

Leo Quinn, Balfour Beatty Group Chief Executive, said: “The NNDR will significantly improve the Norwich and Norfolk road network, providing real benefits to local communities, businesses and the travelling public as well as supporting regional economic growth.”

Balfour Beatty has been assisting Norfolk County Council with design development, construction feasibility advice and development of the scheme’s target cost. They are also working on Norfolk County Councils £27M Postwick junction project which will join NNDR with the A47 trunk road.

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