Collaboration Delivers Safety Improvements for Smart Motorways : WJ UK

Permanent Road Markings

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Built upon our industry leading reputation of safety, service, quality and innovation WJ affords the very same working ethos within the permanent road marking market providing our clients a full package of innovative products and services from in house resources.

Contraflow/ Temporary Road Markings

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The temporary road markings business of WJ was the formation of the company back in 1987 and is now the strength, core and foundation of a solid customer focused management team delivering a service unrivaled by any other organisation. Temporary road markings are often used for traffic management systems, adding temporary markings, signs, signals or studs to roads.

Retroreflectometer Surveying Service

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WJ portfolio now includes a bespoke surveying service utilising a state of the art Dynamic Retroreflectometer designed to measure retroreflectivity levels of all types of road markings.

Car Park Markings

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The specialist marking division provide a wide range of services within the road marking industry from small private car parks to multi-storeys and term maintenance contracts. Renowned in the industry for our highly efficient service, we take pride in our ability to complete contracts in the tightest of time scales whilst achieving the highest standards of workmanship.

Sports & Play Ground Markings

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We carry out markings for all sports games including Tennis, Netball, Basketball and MUGA’S (multi-use-games-area). Other services include full colour spraying of sports courts and play areas offering improved grip and great visual impact.

Preformed Marking Designs

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Pre-formed Thermoplastic is thermoplastic that comes ready made. It can be pre cut into specialist logos and designs

Airfield Markings

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With over 15 years experience on airfield we offer a variety of services including line markings to runways, taxiways and aprons are a very important maintenance task of airports and we provide this service to a number of UK airports and Ministry of Defence establishments including Heathrow, Exeter and Birmingham.

High Friction & Colour Surfacing

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The innovative surfacing is designed to provide bright colour-fast skid and slip resistant demarcation for various large and small highway and non-highway applications.

Road Studs

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WJ offers a wide range of road stud products and installation, from traditional cats eye's to temporary stick on studs.

Road Marking Removal

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Road Repair Systems

Road Re-texturing

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Cost effective road safety measure. The WJ Hydroblast retexturing system not only removes excess bitumen but also increases the macro and micro texture of existing road surfaces, delivering improved levels of friction and road safety.

Applied Media – Floor Graphics

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WJ manufacture, supply and install an exceptional heavy duty floor graphic specifically designed to withstand heavy footfall and rolling vehicular traffic.

Collaboration Delivers Safety Improvements for Smart Motorways

Highways England, Balfour Beatty, and Colas working in collaboration with WJ and their supply chain have enhanced the visibility of Emergency Refuge Areas (ERA) by highlighting the whole area with a bright orange surfacing The days where it was possible to simply build additional highways or to widen existing carriageways to tackle congestion by increasing capacity have largely gone, therefore more innovative and environmentally balanced solutions are required.

Smart motorways relieve congestion and improve journey times by making the hard shoulder available for use at busy periods or on some schemes it is permanently converted into a traffic lane, known as All Lane Running.

Spaced emergency refuge areas (ERA) are provided every 1.6 miles on average and are clearly marked with blue signs featuring the orange SOS telephone symbol. It is recognised that smart motorway driving is a relatively new concept so the ERA’s are being coated with bright orange antiskid surfacing to enhance visibility of these areas and help drivers needing to find the refuge in an emergency.

This safety upgrade, using QMS Type 1 HyperGrip™ system, has been delivered on the the 13.4mile smart motorway scheme, which covers the M3 from junction 2 to junction 4a in Hampshire and Surrey. Two emergency refuge areas were originally completed as the trial and now all ERA’s on the scheme will be afforded the same enhancement.

WJ North Operations Director Nick Holt commented “Our lead was from Colas but it’s amazing what can be achieved with good collaboration throughout the entire supply chain. Working together with Balfour Beatty, Colas, WJ South and our supply chain partners we resolved issues and ensured a safe, efficient and quality delivery, all in a very short space of time.”

It is planned now to apply this coloured system on all ERA’s throughout the scheme with other smart motorway contracts expressing interest.

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