Contractor invests in major equipment for Roscommon road project
Wills Bros have augmented their equipment portfolio with investment in an additional number of Komatsu-branded machines, all for use on the N5 project.
Mayo-based civil works contractor, Wills Bros of Foxford have augmented their equipment portfolio with investment in an additional number of Komatsu-branded machines, all for use on the N5 project from Scramogue to Ballaghaderreen.
Supplier, Komatsu distributor in Ireland, McHale Plant Sales’ chairman, Michael McHale said that this was one of the “most significant investments” in plant and equipment made in Ireland in recent times.
“Their purchase is one that underlines the status of Wills Bros as one of the finest and best-resourced civil works contractors in Ireland, whose work is also well known through leading projects completed by them elsewhere in Europe and the UK,” Mr McHale said.
Scheduled to take up to four years to complete, the N5 project will replace one of the most treacherous sections of primary road in the country.
When completed, it will improve road user safety, enhance regional accessibility, and better the connectivity between Dublin and the northern and western regions of the country.
Welcomed by politicians and local tourist and commercial interests, the project involves the construction of approximately 34kms of new single carriageway road that will extend from the existing N5 Ballaghaderreen bypass to the townland of Scramogue bypassing the towns and villages of Frenchpark, Ballinagare, Tulsk and Strokestown. Where the route meets access points to these locations, provision will be made for pedestrian and cyclist facilities.
