Project Timeframe

The Athy Flood Relief Scheme will be delivered in 5 stages with indicative timeframes as follows:

Stage 1 – Option Identification and Scheme Design 

• Carry out the review and assessment of the technical analysis of existing information in relation to the Scheme area.
• Identify and undertake all baseline environmental surveys and site investigations.
• Hydrological and hydraulic modelling, and production of revised mapping, of the existing situation.
• Environmental Constraints Study
• Production of Invasive Species Management Plan
• Assessment, including technical, geotechnical, environmental, and economic assessments, and through detailed hydraulic modelling, of potential flood risk management options.
• Consideration and identification of advance works contracts
• Selection, development, and design of a preferred scheme option.
• Identification of Landowners that may be affected by the construction, operation, and future maintenance of the Scheme.
• Produce a Natura Impact Statement (NIS), Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR), Preliminary Construction Environmental Management Plan (CEMP), Natural Water Retention Measures (MWRM) Maps, Climate Change Adaption Plan, Preliminary Buildability and Preliminary Operation & Maintenance Reports

Stage 2 – Development Consent

• Provision of all documentation required to progress the Scheme through the necessary statutory development consent process (Planning and Development Act 2000 or Arterial Drainage Act 1945).
• Provision of responses to Further Information or Clarification requests.
• Provision of support at Public Displays and Oral Hearings.
• Provision of addendums to the Environmental Assessments as a result of the outcomes/conditions of the development consent process
• Provision of detailed design drawings and specifications.

Stage 3 - Construction Works Procurement 

• Undertake and complete the detailed construction design of the Scheme.
• Update or provide addendums to the environmental assessments undertaken in Stage I, and complete any other environmental assessments, consents, or surveys.
• Produce a Developed Construction Environmental Management Plan (CEMP) ,a Developed Buildability Report and a Developed Operation & Maintenance Report
• Prepare Detailed Design Drawings and Specifications
• Determine Construction Work Packages
• Prepare Tender & Construction Work Packages including Bills of Quantities
• Prepare Construction Contract Documents using the PWC Forms of Contract and undertake the procurement of the works contractor(s) to construct the Scheme, in line with the Capital Works Management Framework
• Preparation of Tender Report(s)

Stage 4 – Construction Works 

• Supervise the construction of the Scheme
• Supervise the construction contract(s) and provide Project Management Services including Employer Representative services.

Stage 5 – Handover of Works

• Commissioning of the completion certificate
• Provision of a Financial Analyst Report
• Finalisation/sign-off of Construction Contracts
• Provision of the Safety File
• Produce “As-Built” flood mapping