Bruce Highway—Cooroy to Curra
This project involves a 62km realignment and upgrade of the Bruce Highway to 4 lanes between Cooroy and Curra and is among Queensland's highest priority road projects.
The $1 billion Section D: Woondum to Curra (C2CD) project is a new 26km, 4-lane divided highway between the existing Bruce Highway interchange at Woondum, south of Gympie and Curra.
Contract 1 was awarded to an Australian owned, Queensland based joint venture between Bielby Holdings and BMD.
The Bielby BMD Joint Venture will begin mobilising their equipment over the coming months with construction work to begin soon after. It is anticipated that Contract 2 will be awarded in late December 2020. Both contracts will be completed, and the highway opened as one project in mid-2024, weather permitting.
Any employment enquiries can be directed to the successful contractors.
Industry RegisterThe local Industry Register is an initiative to encourage local business participation in the project.
Gympie region businesses such as sub-contractors, equipment and plant hire, service providers, accommodation and catering providers and labour-hire are encouraged to register their interest on the project website.
The Industry Register has been provided to shortlisted construction contractors, so they have details of interested local businesses and service providers. The register will continue to be updated over the next 12 months and provided to the 2 successful contractors.
The Australian Government and Queensland Government incorporate social, environmental and economic costs and benefits in project assessment and delivery.
These broad elements of sustainability are being optimised through the adoption of the Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia's (ISCA) Rating Tool.
The Rating Tool incentivises a range of sustainable initiatives, including best practice pollution control, ecology protection, community engagement and resource use.
The C2CD project is aiming to achieve a rating of ‘excellent' to maximise sustainable outcomes from the project. To achieve this, the project is committed to the following objectives:
Governance
Environmental
Economic
Maximise asset whole-of-life value and minimise whole-of-life costs
Minimise water use and consider non-potable water sources.
Social and cultural
An all movements interchange will be constructed at Gympie Connection Road to cater for commuters travelling to Gympie or the Cooloola Coast from the new highway. Traffic signals will be located at each exit ramp and entry ramp intersection with Gympie Connection Road to manage safe flow of traffic between the new highway and the local road network.
An all movements interchange will be constructed just north of Curra to connect the new 4-lane highway with the existing 2-lane Bruce Highway. The interchange will be to the north of the existing Harvey Siding Road and Bruce Highway intersection. Connections will be made back to Harvey Siding and Ashfords roads for local traffic.
Last updated: 20 November 2020