The agency is delivering new pedestrian crossings at the A5036 Dunnings Bridge Road and Park Lane crossroads at Netherton. All the electricity for the construction compound is being powered by hydrogen rather than from the grid or diesel generators.
Galliford Try, National Highways’ lead constructor for the £7 million project, has been trialling the use of a hydrogen fuel cell generator to power the site compound. Three site offices, toilets, kitchen, drying room and two EV charging points have all being powered by the hydrogen system since the scheme, due to be completed by Friday 12 June, started in November.
Duncan Smith, National Highways’ chief operating officer, visited the site. He said, “At National Highways we’re totally committed to decarbonising the way we operate, maintain, repair and improve our roads. We expect companies in our supply chain to share those goals, so when I visited the site, I was delighted to see ourselves and Galliford Try working together to trial this new, greener way of running the construction compound.
“It’s a pilot project and as the price of this technology comes down, this has to be the future compared to burning fossil fuels when we cannot connect a site to the grid.”
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