Market · GB
Road & rail design support for the United Kingdom
Extra Civil 3D and OpenRoads capacity for UK highway and rail consultancies – for trunk-road schemes, local-authority projects, developer S278 / S38 packages and Network Rail work, delivered in your templates and two to three hours ahead of UK time.
Standards
What we work to
| Document | Full title / edition | How we use it |
|---|---|---|
| Highways – DMRB (Design Manual for Roads and Bridges) | ||
| GG 101 | Introduction to the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges | Departures, relaxations and document hierarchy |
| GG 104 | Requirements for safety risk assessment | Safety risk assessment of design proposals |
| CD 109 | Highway link design | Design speed, SSD, horizontal and vertical alignment |
| CD 116 | Geometric design of roundabouts | Roundabout geometry, entry path radius, visibility |
| CD 122 | Geometric design of grade separated junctions | Interchanges, merges, diverges, weaving |
| CD 123 | Geometric design of at-grade priority and signal-controlled junctions | Priority and signal junctions, visibility splays |
| CD 127 | Cross-sections and headrooms | Lane, hard-strip and verge widths; headroom |
| CD 143 / CD 195 | Designing for walking, cycling and horse-riding / Designing for cycle traffic | Non-motorised user provision on trunk roads |
| CD 225 | Design for new pavement foundations | Capping and sub-base layouts |
| CD 352 | Design of road tunnels | Tunnel geometry, safety facilities, TDSCG |
| CD 377 | Requirements for road restraint systems (with RRRAP) | Barrier need, containment, length of need, set-back |
| CG 501 / CD 521 / CD 526 | Design of highway drainage systems / Hydraulic design of road edge surface water channels and outlets / Spacing of road gullies | Surface-water drainage layouts and calculations |
| Specification | ||
| MCHW Vol. 1 | Manual of Contract Documents for Highway Works – Volume 1: Specification for Highway Works (SHW) | Series references and contract-specific appendices on drawings |
| MCHW Vol. 2 | Manual of Contract Documents for Highway Works – Volume 2: Notes for Guidance on the Specification for Highway Works | Interpretation of SHW clauses |
| MCHW Vol. 3 | Manual of Contract Documents for Highway Works – Volume 3: Highway Construction Details | Standard details referenced on drawings |
| Local roads, streets & developer works | ||
| MfS / MfS2 | Manual for Streets (DfT, 2007) and Manual for Streets 2 (CIHT, 2010) | Residential and urban street design |
| LTN 1/20 | Cycle infrastructure design (DfT, 2020) | Cycle track widths, junctions and crossings |
| s278 / s38 | Highways Act 1980, sections 278 and 38 | Developer works and adoption drawing packages |
| Local guides | Local highway authority design guides and technical approval requirements | Applied per authority |
| Signs & markings | ||
| TSRGD 2016 | The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016 | Sign and marking layouts |
| TSM | Traffic Signs Manual (DfT), incl. Chapter 8 for temporary traffic management | Sign placement and works layouts |
| Railway – Network Rail & RSSB | ||
| NR/L2/TRK/2102 | Design and Construction of Track | Track geometry, cant, transitions, S&C |
| NR/L2/CIV/003 | Engineering and Architectural Assurance of Building and Civil Engineering Works | Design submissions and assurance stages |
| GIRT7073 | Requirements for the Position of Infrastructure and for Defining and Maintaining Clearances (RSSB) | Structure and platform clearances |
| PACE | Network Rail project lifecycle (formerly GRIP) | Stage-appropriate deliverables |
| Health & safety in design | ||
| CDM 2015 | The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 | We support your designer duties (regulation 9) with design risk information in your format |
| British & European standards | ||
| BS EN 1990 – 1997 | Eurocodes with UK National Annexes | Structural and geotechnical interfaces |
| BS EN 1317 | Road restraint systems (parts 1–5) | Barrier performance classes |
| BS EN 13803 / 13848 | Track alignment design parameters / Track geometry quality | Railway geometry |
| BS EN ISO 19650 | Organization and digitization of information about buildings and civil engineering works, including BIM | Naming, CDE workflow, information delivery |
We design to the edition, amendments and national annexes named in your project's design basis, under your firm's design responsibility and checking procedures. Editions listed are those current at the time of writing.
Deliverables
Typical packages for the United Kingdom
- S278 junction and access GA, setting-out, kerbs and levels
- DMRB link and junction geometry with departures register support
- Plan & profile and cross-section sheet sets
- Track alignment and cross-sections for renewals and enhancements
- Drainage layouts and long-sections
- Utility (C2/C3/C4) composite drawings
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