Multi-modal projects need multi-disciplinary leaders
Ensuring the optimal delivery of integrated infrastructure, that achieves combined authorities’ goals, requires a delivery partner who intrinsically understands not only the bespoke challenges of delivering individual modes of transport – but also the complexities involved in how the modes interface with one another and come together to create seamless journeys for passengers. Creating safe, […]
Salford University car park: a modular solution supporting campus growth
What we delivered The Octavius and SiderPark modular system delivered a fast, flexible, and cost-effective solution for the University of Salford, transforming an underused area into 462 parking spaces, nearly doubling existing capacity. Around 30% cheaper than traditional pre-cast concrete construction, the system enabled the university to increase parking provision quickly and with minimal disruption. […]
Integration through devolution
The CIHT recently invited David Beddell, Octavius’ Strategic Growth Director, to share his thoughts on the government’s new Integrated Transport Strategy. His views, below, were originally published in May’s Transportation Professional Better Connected, the government’s new Integrated Transport Strategy is modally agnostic, addressing transport networks and infrastructure as a whole. Instead of looking at different […]
Harmonising delivery: The importance of the integrator
Diverse stakeholders are a hallmark of the transformative projects many combined authorities are looking to implement, so a delivery partner able to integrate and align competing priorities with project goals is key to success. A complex matrix of network users, stakeholder agencies and suppliers is often a defining feature of combined authority transport infrastructure projects. […]
March public realm: All about community and collaboration
A project like March may not seem anything out of the ordinary: new pedestrian areas, new carriage ways and new street furniture intended to revitalise the town centre. But delivering a project like March while keeping the town centre thriving, keeping the community onside, and keeping the traffic flowing is the opposite of undemanding. For […]
Public realm creation, Eastbourne, Terminus Road
About the project Flexibility key to success Terminus Road is the principal thoroughfare between Eastbourne town centre and the East Sussex resort’s seafront. Amenity to the road’s many restaurants and shops is being enhanced, and the route between town and beach revitalised, by a £3 million pedestrianisation project. As well as being free of traffic […]
YORcivil Major Works 2 win reinforces Octavius’ national growth
Octavius has secured a place on the YORcivil Major Works 2 Contractors Framework Agreement, for schemes with a minimum value of £10 million. YORcivil is used by local authorities in Yorkshire and the Humber for the procurement of civil engineering services. Through the framework transport solutions provider Octavius will deliver highways, public realm and integrated […]
Collaborative working comes to the forefront
With regional devolution on an unprecedented scale collaborative working is increasingly seen as the best way to deliver transport infrastructure As transport enters a new era – with regional devolution on an unprecedented scale, CP7 building momentum, and the dawn of RIS3 – progressive, collaborative procurement is increasingly recognised as the best way to deliver […]
Greener modular technology transforms car parking at Ely Hospital
Octavius Infrastructure has successfully completed a new multi-storey modular car park at Ely Hospital, Ely. The three-level plus ground-level car park provides a total of 271 spaces, including sixteen designated disabled bays, eight EV charging points, external bicycle parking, and two lifts. The new facility transforms the former MOD social club site and porters lodge […]