Wokingham Eastern Gateway

The Eastern Gateway scheme comes as part of the wider Wokingham Highways Programme, which will serve Wokingham Borough Council’s commitment to provide 12000 new homes. The scheme consists of a section of a new road, a new roundabout, and a new road over rail bridge.

Tony Gee completed the highways and structural designs outlined in the scheme and contributed solutions which saved the programme a significant £2 million after proposing changes to the illustrative design. These included:

• Changing road alignment 132kV pylon to minimise utility diversion costs and improve H&S.

• Reducing the span of the main bridge and changing form structure from a supported concrete deck on bearings to an integral form, thereby minimising whole life maintenance.

• Changing earthworks from 70 degree reinforced soil slopes supported on piles to 1:3 landscaped earthwork slopes.

• Changing the vertical alignment at the roundabout and introducing an additional attenuation pond (a Sustainable Drainage System [SuDS], which not only treats the water naturally but adds to ecological enhancements to enable the road drainage to function effectively.