{"id":4036,"date":"2023-07-25T08:18:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T06:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.systra.com\/australia\/?post_type=projects&#038;p=4036"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:20:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T06:20:33","slug":"legacy-way","status":"publish","type":"projects","link":"https:\/\/www.systra.com\/australia\/project\/legacy-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Legacy Way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"content-top-project\">\n    <div class=\"content-top-details\">\n        <svg class=\"icon-sprite details-logo\"><use xlink:href=\"#icon_deco_systra_blanc\" \/>\n        <div class=\"title\">Technical details<\/div>\n        \t        <div class=\"single-content\">\n\t            <div class=\"subtitle\">Customer<\/div>\n\t            <div class=\"desc\">Brisbane City Council and Transcity Joint Venture (Acciona, Ghella, BMD Constructions)<\/div>\n\t        <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"single-content\">\n                <div class=\"subtitle\">Missions<\/div>\n                <div class=\"desc\">Constructability Advice<\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"single-content\">\n                <div class=\"subtitle\">Localisation<\/div>\n                <div class=\"desc\">Brisbane, Queensland<\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"single-content\">\n                <div class=\"subtitle\">Activity<\/div>\n                <div class=\"desc\">Tunnels and Underground Structures<\/div>\n            <\/div>\n           \n            \n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Legacy Way is a motorway link connecting the Western Freeway at Mt Coot-tha in the west with the Inner-City Bypass at Kelvin Grove in the north, constructed mostly in tunnels deep beneath the inner western suburbs of Brisbane.<br><br>The project was approximately 6 km in length with approximately 4.3km being constructed by a driven TBM tunnel in hard competent rock below the high-density urban areas of Toowong, Auchenflower, Paddington, Red Hill, and Kelvin Grove.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-northern-link\">Northern Link<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>SYSTRA provided specialist tunnel constructability services in three specific phases aligned with the chronology of the BCC\u2019s RfP process. 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