OneSteel Reinforcing helping drive construction of Westlink M7

摘要

OneSteel Reinforcing is playing a key role in the construction, of Australia's largest ever urban road: the 40km Westlink M7, supplying more than 40,000 tonnes of steel reinforcing for various parts of the project. The missing link in Sydney's orbital network of motorways, the M7 is a 40 km dual carriageway motorway between the M5/Hume Highway at Prestons and the M2 at Baulkham Hills. The M7 will bypass up to 56 sets of traffic lights, cutting travel times across western Sydney by up to an hour and will replace the Cumberland Highway as the national highway link through Sydney, providing a new route for the transport industry and taking heavy vehicles off local roads. The massive project is being built by a joint venture company comprising Abigroup and Leighton Contractors (ALJV). Key construction features of the project are the erection of 144 bridges and the use of continuously reinforced concrete pavement for the roadway.