Toowoomba Second Range Crossing: The Nexus Delivery Wrap-Up

This is a project note from 2020, marking the end of one of the larger civil jobs ComplyFlow has worked on.

What We Did on the Project.

ComplyFlow was engaged to manage compliance, contractor safety and plant management for Nexus Delivery, the joint venture of Ferrovial Agroman Australia and Acciona Infrastructure that designed and built the crossing. It was a project on which we refined a good deal of how the platform handles contractor records and plant at scale, and the credit for that sits with the team on site as much as with ours.

What the Project Was.

The Toowoomba Second Range Crossing, now called the Toowoomba Bypass, is a 41 km route from the Warrego Highway at Helidon Spa in the east to the Gore Highway at Athol in the west, via Charlton. Queensland’s Department of Transport and Main Roads records that construction started in April 2016 and the bypass opened to traffic in September 2019.¹

It was delivered through a public-private partnership arrangement with Nexus Infrastructure Pty Ltd. Transport and Main Roads gives the indicative total investment as AU$1.606 billion, made up of AU$1.137 billion from the Australian Government and AU$469 million from the Queensland Government.¹

The point of the road was freight. Transport and Main Roads recorded 24,600 vehicle movements a day on the original range crossing, of which 4,400 were heavy vehicles, and expected up to 80% of those heavy vehicles to divert onto the bypass.¹

What a Project This Size Asks of a Compliance System.

Three and a half years of construction is the part that matters from where we sit. A licence, a ticket, an induction, or a plant inspection record does not stay current for three and a half years on its own, and a project of this size turns over a lot of people and a lot of machinery in that time.

That is the work: keeping every record current while the site is running, rather than assembling it afterwards for an audit. Our infrastructure page covers the contractor side of it, and our plant and equipment page covers the machinery side.

Build for the Turnover, Not for the Headcount.

If you are standing up a compliance system for a major project rather than for a business as usual site, the difference is the turnover, not the headcount. Book a demo and bring the contractor list.