Hydro Tasmania and Stornoway Maintenance working together to provide best practice in road network maintenance on over 600km of privately owned road throughout the state.

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Long term road maintenance partnership with Hydro Tasmania

Posted on 28 January, 2010 in Stornoway Maintenance News

Stornoway Maintenance and Hydro Tasmania establish long term road maintenance partnership.

Recognising the need to take a more strategic approach to managing it’s road network, Hydro Tasmania has established a relationship-based contract that will see Stornoway taking responsibility for the management and maintenance of Hydro’s entire road network for up to five years.

Hydro are responsible for approximately 600 kilometres of road statewide, most of which is unsealed. As well as providing access to dams and power stations, the roads are widely used by tourists and the local community for recreational activities such as fishing and bushwalking.

The contract requires Stornoway to deliver a complete asset management package including asset inspection, road condition data analysis and risk assessment, works prioritisation and programming, as well as delivery of all required construction and maintenance works.

As a relationship-based contract, Stornoway and Hydro Tasmania worked jointly to develop the scope of works, maintenance methodology and form of contract required to ensure effective long term management of Hydro’s road network.

Stornoway Managing Director Tim Gardner said it’s a great opportunity to apply Stornoway’s extensive road maintenance experience in developing a program that fits Hydro’s road network.
“It’s not very often we get to combine our own expertise with that of the client to develop a model that is completely tailored to the roads in question”, Mr Gardner said. “Hydro have had no long term, network wide programme in place and had no preconceptions about how it should be done – they just wanted to ensure they achieve best value for money.”
Hydro Tasmania’s Manager Project Delivery, Andrew Hickman, said that this project is also about ensuring Hydro apply best practice in road network maintenance.
“Working with Stornoway is about ensuring we take a higher level view on our spending priorities to get a better longer term outcome”, Mr Hickman said. “Most importantly this will ensure we maintain our duty of care to both Hydro staff and the travelling public.”

Stornoway is Tasmania’s only locally owned provider of long term road network maintenance services and is currently contracted to maintain the State road network in north-west Tasmania.

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