Terminal 3 Development

The scheme involved the construction of an offshore rock breakwater containing more than 150,000 tonnes of locally produced rock core and armour, plus the infilling of 240,000m³ of dredged sand. Dredged sand was collected from a licensed area in Morecambe Bay and discharged hydraulically behind the breakwater via a 750mm diameter delivery pipe, which extended 1km out to sea to a mooring buoy, at which the dredger berthed. The total area of reclamation was approximately 40,000m² of which a third received permanent full construction of a stone capping layer, stone sub-base, dense bitumen macadam road base with 80mm key-block paving in order to take the heavy duty port traffic.