A303 Stonehenge England Tender

Project Location Stonehenge EnglandProject Cost 1.6bn.Project Description The single carriageway A303 between Amesbury and Berwick Down currently runs alongside Stonehenge and the proposed option is to dual the seven-mile section including a 1.8-mile tunnel to improve journey times remove the sight and sound of traffic and enhance the World Heritage Site. The proposal also includes options for a bypass of the village of Winterbourne Stoke.The Aecom-led team will be Highways Englands technical partner for the Amesbury to Berwick Down project which includes proposals for a 1.8-mile tunnel near Stonehenge. The government is committed to upgrading all remaining sections of the A303 between the M3 and M5 to dual carriageway standard starting with three schemes one at Stonehenge one between Sparkford and Ilchester and the third on the A358 between Taunton and Southfields.It also revealed the total estimated cost of the A303 route upgrade near the historic monument has risen from 1.4bn to 1.6bn.It will reconnect the two halves of the 6500 acre World Heritage site which is currently split by the road and remove the sight and sound of traffic from the Stonehenge landscape.Contractors involved Highways England appointed the Arup Atkins joint venture as the design consultant to provide a preferred option for the A303 Stonehenge scheme in January 2016. Wessex Archaeology was contracted to manage the archaeology work. Osborne was appointed to prepare the site for the main contractor for the A303 Stonehenge improvements.