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3.3.2 Construction program
Construction is anticipated to start in the first half of 2015 and it would take up to one
year to complete the work due to the complexities of programming the works to avoid
significant impacts on the city’s traffic.
3.3.3 Overall work site construction staging
Construction staging would be determined by the appointed construction contractor.
It would depend on construction contractor requirements, road occupancy licence
(ROL) requirements, and other external factors that may restrict working times and
hours. The overall objective would be to construct the proposal in a timely
and efficient manner, considering the need to:
Maintain access throughout the city centre
Allow traffic to use the city centre roads, particularly during the morning and
evening peak hour periods
Ensure these works do not conflict with the traffic management controls and
improvements to be implemented on other major development projects
Ensure the works do not conflict with planned road closures
Ensure the proposal’s impacts would be managed in accordance with the
safeguards and management measures identified in Chapter 7 of this REF to
minimise environmental and social impacts.
To deliver the proposal, several work sites may be in operation at the same time. As
the more major traffic capacity improvements (shaded grey in Table 3-3 to Table 3-7)
would take longer to construct, this would likely define the construction staging.
3.3.4 Construction hours and duration
Traffic management controls and lane closures would be required at many of the
work sites.
Consequently, in order to minimise traffic disruption on some of Sydney’s busiest
roads, and to achieve the most efficient and shortest construction program, the works
would need to take place outside of the recommended standard hours for
construction works prescribed by the NSW Environment Protection Authority in its
Interim Construction Noise Guideline (ICNG) (Department of Environment and
Climate Change, 2009) which are defined as 7.00am to 6.00pm Monday to Friday
and 8.00am to 1.00pm on a Saturday. The guideline recommends that no
construction work should be undertaken on Sundays or during public holidays.
3.3.5 Plant and equipment
Each traffic capacity improvement would require an assortment of plant and
equipment at different stages (refer to Table 3-10). This equipment would be shared
across the work sites. Not all the equipment would be required for all the construction
activities in a given location at a given time.
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