Intellitag® reduces the risk to the workforce on the A45 Westbound Rushden lakes to Wellingborough diversion route.

The Challenge

The A45 Westbound was planned to be closed nightly from the 8th to the 19th of September so resurfacing works along with civils and replacements of kerbs could be undertaken.
Due to the location of the closure the diversion route was 16.2 miles which would have needed to be manually checked 6 times a night from 20:00pm until 06:00am.

Our Solution

The HRS team evaluated the suitability of using Intellicone® IPAWS with Intellicam® on the main A45 Westbound Rushden Lakes closure and Intellitag® along the diversion route, knowing that we could demonstrate an overall cost, resource and carbon saving.

This Improved safety for the workforce and provided digital evidence of the required maintenance checks, moving the client towards a cost-effective event-based approach to site maintenance.

Outcome

The client moved from 6 manual maintenance checks every 2 hours to 100% event-based. They could then deploy resources elsewhere and found the reduction in risk exposure to the workforce a huge benefit as they only needed to be deployed when the system alerted that there was a problem with a sign.

The client could log into the HRS online portal from anywhere and at any time to monitor the closure and diversion route.

During the closure they were notified twice by the Intellitags® of fallen signs.

The signs were quickly rectified due to the timely response to the notification. The reactive visits to site resulted in lower carbon emissions.

The scheme was on for 10 shifts from the 8th to the 19th of September. By using Intellitag® on the diversion route the saving to the client was:

• 900-man hours
• 4680 miles
• 615 litres of diesel
• 1.65 tonnes of carbon

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