A single crew from joint venture Balfour Beatty/Mott MacDonald has completed a new motorway resurfacing record after 1,100 tonnes of road surface was laid in one night – four times higher than during an average resurfacing shift.
The work was carried out on a two-mile stretch of the M6 between junctions 28 and 27 near Leyland last month. A total of 13,200 sq m of tarmac was laid, enough to cover the equivalent of two football pitches.
The whole project involved 25 workers each night and took place over two nights, with all of the preparation work taking place on a Friday night, including planing off the existing road surface and repairing deep cracks and potholes.
John Lyssejko, project manager at Highways England, said: “We’re keen to do things differently, maintain high standards and reduce the impact on drivers and this new method of working ticks every box.
“Everyone worked really hard on the planning and on the night to make it work, and the response has been very positive. Now we know how well it works, and we are confident that we can maintain safety, we can start to look to use the method elsewhere on the network.”
