Project Description
As part of the Active Travel Action Plan for the City of Edinburgh Council, this project links the Roseburn area from Sauchiebank to Union Canal completing a vital link to Haymarket and the City Centre. Part funded by Sustrans, the scheme promotes both healthy travel and inclusive use by all members of the community.
Transformation of a mixture of existing woodland and road and footpath infrastructures, the works comprise significant engineering of earthworks for new ground levels and contours, the provision of two new bridges, upgrading of footpaths, new road crossings, landscape and ecology provisions and the upgrade to the Dalry Community Park.
Our Role / Scope
Pre-Contract: Doig and Smith have provided full project management services from the feasibility stages of the project through to contract agreement and execution. We have worked in partnership with the multidisciplined Design Team, Contractor and Client under the Scape procurement framework and NEC 4A contract conditions.
The sensitivity of the sites, and impact to the local community were at the forefront of the design development and subsequent successful planning consent. Market testing exercises were undertaken to ensure robust governance and value for money was demonstrated both to the Client and to Sustrans.
Programming and planning of the works were carefully considered to minimise potential disruption, particularly in relation to the surrounding residential properties and principal road artery of the West Approach Road.
Community engagement was integral in obtaining Planning consent and this will be taken through the construction stages with the ongoing development of the longterm maintenance strategy for landscape, habitat and community park facilities as well as social impact key performance indicators.
Multiple stakeholder management was required throughout the pre-contract stages with approvals and agreements from numerous internal Council departments as well as external parties such as Network Rail, Utilities and transport bodies, community councils and groups.
Post-Contract: Works are due to commence on site in February 2023 and Doig and Smith have been commissioned to continue with the process and procedures undertaken to date to manage all parties and stakeholders through collaboration and open and honest communication.
The success of the project will be ensuring that we continue to take a holistic approach to its delivery and be flexible enough to incorporate improvements and benefits generated in our engagement process through construction. This ethos has started pre- construction and we have already identified a number of elements, through discussions that will be introduced into the scheme.
Benefits To Client
– Detailed Feasibility cost prepared, allowing full buy-in from Client and Contractor
– D+S Commercial Challenge ethos ensures competitive price even in a tender negotiation
– Pro-active Change Control and Risk Mitigation