Cundall Highways and Active Travel

HIGHWAYS

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offers innovative design solutions and technological efficiencies, and we have an impressive track record of delivering highways and transportation infrastructure throughout the world.

We work on rural, urban and inner-city highways, driving value and cost certainty. We bring together all disciplines in transport infrastructure, our specialist experts covering road, water, geotechnical and structural engineering alongside planning and environmental assessments. services

We provide concept design and feasibility advice, site appraisal and due diligence through design, construction and implementation. We provide a whole service for schemes of all size and scale.

Tracking, QGIS, KeySIGN, KeyLINES, Navisworks and BIM 360. The design services we provide are powerful and influential to gaining statutory approvals such as s278, s38, s104 and s106 agreement and Technical Approval. Our services and capabilities include:

‚ Highway design to meet adoptable standards – DMRB or local authority design guides that include road pavement analysis and design, traffic signs, road markings and lighting

‚ Integration of Active Travel and non-motorised user principles

‚ Project, programme and design management

Risk management

Construction cost estimates

Drainage design, flood

Making Space

We are embracing a travel revolution on our streets and in our towns and communities. We advise, design and implement the gear change principles set out by policy.

‚ Site surveys and ground investigations

‚ Utilities coordination & preliminary utilities appraisals

‚ Temporary traffic diversions, tieins and crossovers

Geo-environmental studies and remediation of brownfield sites

‚ Utilities coordination & preliminary utilities appraisals

‚ Earthworks strategies including cut & fill analysis

‚ Highway construction supervision and support

The Highway Engineering Team are supported by specialist input from other disciplines including transport planning, traffic engineering, planning and environmental assessment and CDM (Principal Designer).

We are experienced Principal Designers and conduct our work with a Safety in Design approach. We are able to procure all Road Safety Audits.

Our full Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) service helps to steer your project from the EIA screening stage.

We keep people and goods moving e ciently through urban and rural environments and networks.

Traffic engineering and transport

Some of our services and capabilities:

Traffic and pedestrian modelling and simulation with visualisation

Feasibility studies and due diligence

‚ Access strategies

‚ Local Plan representation

‚ Junction selection and design

‚ Transport Assessments / Statements

‚ Travel Plans

‚ Junction / network capacity analysis using traditional and microsimulation software

Mitigation measure development and design

‚ Accessibility review

‚ Development layout advice

including Vehicle Tracking support

‚ EIA Transport Chapter preparation

‚ Defensive Planning

‚ Financial contribution negotiation

Construction Management Plans

Post application planning support

Signing and lining strategies

Parking strategy, design, assessment and management plans.

‚ Traffic and NMU surveys.

‚ Public Inquiry support

‚ Planning condition discharge

Masterplanning (highways)

We design sustainable and resilient developments, towns, cities and neighbourhoods with the flexibility to adapt to future requirements.

We can provide engineering input into the masterplanning process on all kinds of projects, including those with highways and highways infrastructure at their core. Our breadth of service offering allows us to take a holistic approach to the masterplanning design, ensuring the creation of robust, high-quality sustainable solutions which meet the specific requirements of our clients.

Taking full consideration of engineering opportunities and constraints during the early stages of the development process is key to the production of a successful, cost-efficient masterplan. Our specialists are able to provide

advice on a range of engineering services to facilitate the production of a flexible and resilient framework which can be used to form the basis of all detailed design.

Cundall’s masterplanning team can provide quantitative and technical support for the client to evaluate the environmental impact of development and facilitate the client to make a sustainable and economical decision.

Using a combination of clear and concise guidance supported by strong technical performance assessment and analysis, Cundall communicate in easy to understand ways to enable decisions to be made at the earliest stages of design.

Health and safety (CDM)

Not only providing expertise as designers, Cundall has the experience to perform the role Principal Designer under the CDM Regulations 2015, as well as Project Supervisor Design Process (PSDP) in Ireland.

Early engagement with our specialist CDM consultants can save time, and money whilst not compromising on quality. We also provide advice in respect of their duties under the regulations. Where clients choose to take on the role of Principal Designer themselves, Cundall can offer support and advice on CDM and related matters and also have extensive experience performing these duties.

Our design team have industry partners who can provide the full range of road safety auditing requirements from advice and

Stage 1 at preliminary design stage, through to Stage 4 and technical assessments post-construction.

Planning (highways)

Our experienced Planning and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) team provides an integrated service across the development planning stages. This includes pre-application discussions, environmental impact assessments and transportation and highways inputs throughout the pre-planning and planning stages with Highways Development Management.

We can manage the planning process or act as intermediaries on your behalf with local authorities. For planning or permit applications, we can provide many of the specialist reports to justify schemes and secure consent.

Our team also works directly with local planning authorities to prepare local plans and development briefs, masterplanning, development control, and assist in appeal situations.

Environmental

Cundall offers a range of environmental services, complementing our highways, development and infrastructure design teams.

Our full Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) service helps to steer your project from the EIA screening stage and scoping through to reporting and a full assessment of environmental effects.

We work on a wide range of development projects and across several countries (across Europe and elsewhere) where procedures are similar.

We take on the crucial co-ordination and authorship role and have access to a full range of specialist survey providers who we can manage on your behalf.

We report on the environmental impacts of development through the Environmental Statement chapters including Highways, Transport and Access; Water Resources and Climate Change; and Flood Risk, Hydrology and Drainage.

BIM and CIM

At Cundall, we are committed to engineering and the progression that it can bring to our industry. Our Digital Engineering team works alongside our BIM Leads and Research and Innovation team to explore options for improvement within our teams and how we can apply this to our projects. Our approach to BIM is demonstrated by the Autodesk-accredited professionals in our team, and we use this knowledge as a base on which to develop.

Cloud-hosted project delivery

We are now fully utilising BIM 360 on all global projects. BIM360 is a cloud based software that has enabled us to perform cross company project collaboration on a global scale. This cloud platform brings together all project disciplines into one location to create the elusive ‘Single Source of Truth’! The cloud platform is built up from individual software modules to suit the needs of any size of project, and workflows can be bespoke to all project deliveries. Essentially BIM 360 and Autodesk Construction Cloud, is the common data environment that moves beyond a mere repository for storing files, and creates an interactive design and construction communication and collaboration software.

Design automation

We are continuing to develop and deploy computational BIM designbased workflows to enhance and further automate how we deliver projects to our clients. Our projects are frequently becoming more demanding and has pushed us to establish visual, systemic, and geometric relationships between the parts of our designs. The new processes have been developed by workflows that gets us from concept to result by way of rules. We are

adopting an algorithmic approach to how we deliver projects. We undertake this defining step-by-step actions that follow a basic logic of input, processing, and output. Our new workflows allows our project teams to automate design tasks in a variety of BIM authoring platforms.

Bespoke Cundall tools

We have a digital in-house development team focused on the creation of tools and plug-ins to further enhance our digital practices. As an example, our newly developed ‘Document Manager’ tool can simplify the document creation process by automatically populating document numbers, names and other properties either using our standard ISO 19650 naming system or custom project naming conventions. This automatic property population combined with sorting, filtering and bulk editing tools greatly simplify document management. The software can also be linked with a Revit project to ensure that Revit sheets always keep up to date with correct numbering, titles and other properties.

Emerging technologies

In conjunction with Loughborough University we are currently developing an AI system that can generate a ‘Building Emissions Rates’ (BER’s) for non-domestic buildings in less than a second and with as few as 27 variables with little loss in accuracy, making it a faster and efficient process.

This uses a ‘decision tree-based ensemble’ machine algorithm, built and validated using 81,137 real data records that contain information for non-domestic buildings over the whole of England from 2010 to 2019. The data contained information such as building capacity, location, heating, cooling lighting, and activity. The system is to be further developed to build on the techniques to predict real operational energy consumption.

BIM & digital delivery

Cundall protocols and procedures are aligned to ISO19650 for all projects where possible. We understand ISO19650 and BIM are all about individuals working together. The performance of a team can be impacted if people don’t know their role.

To enable our global teams across Cundall to work together to manage information effectively, we have enrolled all our business leaders to undertake the ‘Information Management Practitioner’ certification through the Operam Academy to ensure our leaders have the capability and capacity needed to deliver successful projects. Earners of Operam Academy’s Information Management

Practitioner certification have the fundamental understanding of ‘BIM according to ISO 19650’.

Click here to watch a video on how we are using XYZ's Atom AR technology to shape the way we deliver mega data centres.

Project experience

Cottingwood

We were appointed to support the masterplan and undertake the preliminary and detailed design of the early highways and drainage infrastructure for Cottingwood, Northumberland.

Commissioned by Gleeds and Homes England, we secured reserved matters permission in January 2022 with the revised masterplan scheme from Ryder. The scheme aims to facilitate the development of 875 local homes and village centre.

The scheme brings forward a high-quality development with a central spine road and key SuDS elements complementing the public open space. The road connects to Morpeth Northern Bypass in the north and Morpeth town centre to the south.

A key driver for the highways authority was to avoid a direct vehicular route to the town, which would detract from the purpose of the bypass, constructed in 2015. This was addressed through implementing a bus-gate nothrough section at the south of the scheme.

Protecting and encouraging local wildlife is key for the client so Cundall designed a duck pond with a permanent water body to encourage local wildlife and created a mammal tunnel crossing of the highway underneath the northern embankment.

The network of greenways and green spaces create wildlife corridors and a series of safe, off road pedestrian and cycle routes with integrated play and fitness opportunities.

Newcastle Great Park Spine Road

We designed and supported the construction phase of the Great Park Spine Road project between 2019 and 2022. The scheme delivered a 2.5 km link road with segregated shared footways and cycleways, bridge over the Ouseburn, culverts, mammal tunnel, diverted watercourse, SuDS features and public open space, and serves the creation of thousands of new homes, as well as new schools, shops, dental and hospital provision.

The new two-way single carriageway link road comprised a combination of offset and segregated shared footways and

cycleways for the full length. It provides safe manoeuvres for pedestrians, cyclists and road users through three new roundabouts and stand-alone signalised junction. The scheme includes a 24m span skewed, curving and superelevated bridge over the Ouseburn, large meandering swales and basins with varying slope gradients to achieve a natural landscape, and mammal tunnel through the embankment to facilitate the movement of badgers. There are culverts and a diverted watercourse, environmental barriers to protect nearby residential properties and complex traffic management and

tie-in arrangements to maintain the operation of existing live carriageways.

The design included and allowed for multi and staged phasing of works to allow the contractor to achieve early and partial completion of the northern section, allowing the road to open. This phasing was enabled by ground investigation and subsequent design by our geotechnical engineering team to achieve settlement of embankment fill material on the bridge approaches through a combination of vertical band drains and surcharging.

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Soham Eastern Gateway

We were appointed by This Land to support the delivery of a new development in Soham, Cambridgeshire.

The design and support included preliminary and detailed design of the realignment of the A142 for the site access, roundabout and junction design and modelling and the introduction of a boulevard style highway leading into the site.

We also designed segregated footways for pedestrians and cyclists with safe crossing points, undertook traffic modelling, and integrated a SuDS strategy into the wider masterplan with drainage ditches, large swales and attenuation basins.

A key challenge was to futureproof the A142 highway and not prejudice development to the east of the site.

We designed a four-arm roundabout to capture the size required to install the fourth arm in the future and provided appropriate size and space on splitter islands for safe crossing points to be easily added without major retrofitting works.

We managed the design through road safety audits and statutory approvals, creating a productive and meaningful working relationship with the local highways authority.

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Ely Retail and Industrial Park

We were appointed by Frontier Estates to design the access arrangements for a new retail and industrial park facility in Ely, Cambridgeshire.

The design included preliminary design of the accesses onto Angel Drove, in close proximity of the A142 Ely Southern Bypass.

The design included traffic modelling, signalised junction layout, design and sequencing, vehicle tracking and unlocking blockages and barriers with the local highways authority in the context of the highway design standard, the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB).

A key challenge was aligning the local highways authority with the technical context of the DMRB with respect to visibility and carriageway cross-sectional lane development, which enabled the scheme to progress to the next stage.

Etihad Rail O&M Facility

Cundall was appointed by a Vinciled joint venture with responsibility as Lead Consultant for the full multidisciplinary project design including geotechnical, civil, highways and drainage, trackworks, structural, architectural, MEP, fire engineering, systems assurance, requirements management, BIM and specialist design disciplines.

Our highways team designed 4.2 km of roads and carriageways plus separate pedestrian footways for all movements between buildings on appropriate desire lines.

The design returned to first principles pavement analysis and design, incorporating UK DMRB, AASHTO and Abu Dhabi Design Manuals and developing specialist calculations to accommodate the traffic flows and ground conditions.

One of the challenges was designing and hosting collaborative information for cloud delivery, utilising BIM 360, and undertaking clash detection.

Jinhua Hepan Bridge

We were appointed to design the new bridge over the Jinhua River in Zhejiang Province. In collaboration with the architect, WilkinsonEyre, Cundall developed three design options, the cable-stayed scheme with V-shape central pylon selected for further scheme design

Its structural system consists of an elegant central V-shaped pylon that picks up a 50 m wide steel girder deck via inclined stay cables. The clear bridge span on each side of the pylon is approximately 135 m.

Pedestrians are separated from motor traffic by the structurally strategic placement of cables which are inset from the deck edge, reducing angles between pylon and cables and subsequently decreasing the design stress in decks and pylon.

We carried out an extensive study to optimise the prestress in conjunction with the pylon size to find the best combination for minimal deflection at deck level while meeting the design criteria from both structural performance and architectural aesthetic aspects.

Parametric models were developed for all three schemes to tackle the complexity and achieve a structurally efficient design within a very tight project programme.

Such approach enabled rapid response to design changes and optimisation through exploration of the large pool of solutions.

The considered structural design parameters include pylon height, cable spacing, steel box girder profile, deck depth and width, plate and section thickness, pylon inclination, deck alignment and chainage.

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Cobalt Park

Building services, civil, structural, geotechnical, transportation, IT and AV, fire engineering, sustainable design and BREEAM assessment

Masterplanning and infrastructure Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Cobalt Park is a joint venture between Highbridge Properties Plc and Ashall Developments Limited. It contains more than 2.4 million ft² (223,000 m²) of commercial and retail space. We have been involved in and designed over 27 individual buildings and associated infrastructure constructed either speculatively or for known end users since 1996 when the site was first purchased. We continue to be both designer and independent checking engineer for the site and its occupants, and conduct and report on annual highways defect inspections and audits.

Highbridge Properties Ryder Architectuyre / FaulknerBrowns Architects

We designed the highway and associated site-wide infrastructure, including kerb-guided bus ways, bus-gates, multiple kilometres of roads and pedestrian and cycling routes, diversions of high pressure gas mains, removal of overhead 133KV cables, pond and landscape features and bridleways.

We have delivered both private and publicly adopted highways and site-wide foul and surface water drainage designs.

We introduced a park-wide sustainable urban drainage solution early in the planning. The developments have changed over time to recognise evolving legislation and sustainability requirements.

We have also provided geotechnical and geoenvironmental assessments for all development plots, transport statements, travel planning advice, MEP services on two office buildings and three data centres, CDM/Principal Designer services, clients representative and continued FM maintenance input.

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Bahrain Bay Masterplan

Cundall was responsible for the masterplanning of the exclusive seafront of the Bahrain Bay Development, an ambitious mixeduse masterplan that will redefine the north Manama coastline.

The primary objective of the project was to provide a revised masterplan with a strong concept, focussing on the connectivity and links of the seafront plots while making use of their prime location. This included strategic reviews of existing traffic and utility distribution and redesign of all infrastructure.

The revised masterplan needed to work inside the existing ground floor area, consider the traffic impact assessment (TIA) and stay within the planned utility allocations for the areas, while maintaining the existing street layout.

The existing sellable plots were divided into smaller plots with the look and feel of both areas being a mixed-use urban district. It is also intended to serve as a model for future development throughout the region.

Building services, civil engineering and transportation

Masterplanning and infrastructure

Manama, Bahrain

Bahrain Bay Development Estudio Lamela

Lusail Medicinal & Educational District Masterplan

This project is located to the North of Doha and spread over an area of 38km2, with a waterfront location stretching over 28km. The new district has a total area of over 3km2. The brief required a design to deliver a definitive and technically resolved masterplan, and we provided the design guidelines, regulations and concepts used to inform & create each educational and medical precincts character and design standard. The scope included:

‚ Site analysis and current disposition predicated on concept land-use plan

Planning concept: Givens, objectives and strategies

‚ Concept Masterplan: Disposition options

‚ Utilities reviews

‚ Concept Lighting strategies

‚ Street and pedestrian relationships

‚ Pedestrian movement

‚ Character imagery and style

Two options were developed for the concept masterplan and thematic character at Stage 1 and a preferred option was selected to develop at

stage 2 and to completion of the final masterplan guidelines and public realm schematic design. The plan set the following:

‚ Meet the brief, introduced creative design solutions

‚ Distributed land-use and densities

‚ Addressed the requirement for high standard “first impressions” on approach highways

‚ Achieved the HMC objectives

Incorporate the educational strategy for the whole of the Lusail development

The Mount

Building services, civil, structural and geotechnical engineering, sustainable design, architectural and lighting design, acoustics, transportation, IT/ AV and security.

The Mount is a mixed use project located on the mountains overlooking the city of Muscat in Oman.

The project comprises residential, hotel and retail developments, and sits approximately 650m above sea level. It occupies a footprint of 1,200,000 m2 and GFA of 650,000 m2

Due to the location, height and geology of the proposed site, it presented the design team a few challenges. One of the major challenges was highlighted to be accessibility to the site both during construction and post completion,

which was exacerbated by the almost 300m level difference across the site. To tackle this challenge and with due consideration to time and cost, the design team considered a number of access routes and modes along with smart construction methodology.

The proposed construction methodology considered minimises the magnitude and complexity of transportation to the site. In addition, local materials from the site will be used for the purposes of construction and moving towards sustainability.

Sustainable design approaches adopted included a 45% reduction in road construction through our unique transportation strategy. Due to the varying topography to and within the site this posed some challenges in providing infrastructure (Power and Roads) not only across the development but also primary infrastructure serving the site.

The design team had to consider minimising the energy demand by using smart and sustainable solutions and strategically locating the services across the site and in phases.

Masterplanning and infrastructure Muscat, Oman

Jabel Bausher Heights LLC Perkins + Will

Dealul Lomb Masterplan

What initially started as a light touch masterplan review developed into a redevelopment of the masterplan of the 265-hectare site. It is a mixeduse scheme situated to the north of Cluj, which will include residential, industrial, healthcare, education, retail and offices.

We were commissioned to review and develop the masterplan to safe guard future opportunities for embedding sustainability within the scheme and future proof the scheme against changes in legislation. A robust phasing strategy was developed to reduce the initial infrastructure capital

cost and allow the development to grow according to the demands of the economy. Rationalising the road infrastructure resulted in a significant cost saving and a site wide sustainable urban drainage strategy was developed to deal with the surface water run off from the site.

Security of energy supplies and carbon emissions were recognised as being key areas of concern in the future and a site wide energy strategy was developed for the site. The basis of this was a phased district heating system incorporating co-generation and

biomass boilers whose fuel could be readily sourced locally. In the future an energy from waste plant could be incorporated within the site wide energy and waste strategies.

The principles of sustainable living were embedded in the design of individual residential units with passive design features such as daylighting and natural ventilation.

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We are a multi-disciplinary practice operating as a single team across all our global offices. We create fantastic built environments and positively impact our communities, as well as provide great opportunities for our people. Every project is Partner or Director-led to provide senior ownership across its lifespan.

We believe all projects offer a chance to bring meaningful change to the industry, and in addition to sustainable design we are leading the way in health and wellbeing and digital engineering. We are proud to be at the centre of pioneering design on some of the most exciting projects in the world. Business as usual is no longer enough – we can’t wait to work with you.

Positioned at the forefront of sustainability in the built environment, Cundall provides professional services from business level strategy and governance through to building performance and design.

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Acoustics

Air quality and odour

Audio Visual (AV)

Building automation

Building Performance Services (BPS)

Building services engineering

Civil engineering

Construction design and management consultancy

Digital engineering

Fire engineering

Geotechnical and geoenvironmental

Health, wellbeing and productivity

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Zero Carbon Design 2030

In 2021, we undertook the next phase of our zero carbon journey, Zero30, which is to have all our projects be net zero carbon by 2030. Zero30 builds on our 2020 achievements, when we were the first engineering consultancy in the world to be certified as carbon neutral by the Carbon Trust, and we are also aiming to be carbon positive by 2025.

As part of Zero30, we are interrogating our current approach, which is to rely on a handful of specialists in our company to deliver “sustainable” designs. Much of what we do is compliance or rating tool driven. Step 1 is to establish which parts of the carbon footprint a team can directly control, and which parts a team can influence by working with others.

To achieve our Zero 30 global goals and targets, we need to inspire everyone in Cundall to collaborate, learn, share and support our people, clients and industry to deliver buildings and infrastructure with the lowest possible carbon footprint. A key part of the initiative is to engage everyone in the business to support achieving our goals. Over 10% of our staff are not directly involved in technical delivery, but still have a key role in enabling us to achieve our goal.

The image above shows our Zero Carbon Design 30 pathway. By December 2022, we will have a documented zero-carbon pathway on all projects across the business. There are two further milestones before we hit our final milestone of 100% of projects delivered by Cundall being zero carbon in 2030.

Zero Carbon Design 2030 is so important to us as it will:

‚ Engage the whole business (every level, every team, every office, every project, every time) with a common goal fundamental to our mission, vision and values

‚ Improve technical delivery and efficiency – business-as-usual solutions won’t cut it anymore

‚ Win more high-profile and fulfilling projects

Ensure we don’t get left behind by the wider industry

We have 80 Advocates from around the global business from all disciplines whose roles include facilitating conversation within teams around zero carbon, helping develop zero carbon plans for their team and specifying targets for implementing zero carbon pathways.