The $2.2 billion Pacific Highway upgrade is one of the largest road projects in NSW and will ultimately result in a renewed safer and faster transport corridor from Sydney to the Queensland border.

Pacific Highway Upgrade from Hexham, near Newcastle, to the Queensland border near Tweed Heads is a major regional greenfield and brownfield construction project that requires constant interaction with an operational highway environment.

Boral is providing cement, concrete, asphalt and quarry products, logistics and fixed and on-site plants for stages awarded to various contractors for works including multi-lane upgrades in both directions, new roads and bridges, intersection upgrades and amendments to local roads. 

Boral has been resourcing projects through the existing local and regional networks and has the capacity to increase resources from within Boral if required or sourced from the local market. We also have an embedded chain of responsibility systems to manage the logistical challenges of large regional infrastructure projects.

Our clients include Pacific Complete, McConnell Dowell, Acciona Ferrovial, Lendlease, Seymour Whyte, BGC, BMD Constructions, and CPB Contractors for the project funded by the Australian and NSW governments.

The upgrade started in 1996 and is expected to be completed by 2021.

Herons Creek to Stills Road

Section Newcastle to Port Macquarie
Length 3 kilometres
Date 2013
Works Dual carriageway
Supply Concrete, cement and quarry materials

Bundacree Creek to Possum Brush

Section Newcastle to Port Macquarie
Length 10 kilometres
Date 2013
Works Dual carriageway
Supply Concrete, cement and quarry materials

Bulahdelah Bypass

Section Newcastle to Port Macquarie
Length 9 kilometres
Date 2013
Works Dual carriageway
Supply Concrete, cement and quarry materials

Karuah to Bulahdelah

Section Newcastle to Port Macquarie
Length 34 kilometres
Date 2006-2009
Works Dual carriageway
Supply Asphalt, concrete, cement and quarry materials

Karuah Bypass

Section Newcastle to Port Macquarie
Length 10 kilometres
Date 2013
Works Dual carriageway 
Supply Asphalt, concrete, mobile plant, cement, sands and quarry materials

Raymond Terrace to Karuah

Section Newcastle to Port Macquarie
Length 18 kilometres
Date 2000
Works Dual carriageway 
Supply Asphalt, concrete, mobile plant, cement and quarry materials

Raymond Terrace Bypass

Section Newcastle to Port Macquarie
Length 8 kilometres
Date 1998
Works Dual carriageway 
Supply Asphalt

Bray Street to Arthur Street

Section Port Macquarie to Coffs Harbour
Length 1 kilometre
Date 2000
Works Dual carriageway
Supply Concrete, cement and quarry materials

Bonville Upgrade

Section Port Macquarie to Coffs Harbour
Length 10 kilometre
Date 2008
Works Dual carriageway
Supply Asphalt and concrete plant hire

Nambucca Heads to Urunga

Section Port Macquarie to Coffs Harbour
Length 22 kilometres
Date Completed 2016
Works Four-lane divided road upgrade
Supply Cement for structures and road pavement and concrete for structures and piling

Warrell Creek to Nambucca Heads

Section Port Macquarie to Coffs Harbour
Length 20 kilometres
Date 2017-2018
Works 20km upgraded highway, 15 new bridges, new interchanges at Warrell Creek and Bald Hill Road, and access ramps at North Macksville. Acciona Infrastructure, part of the Pacifico Joint Venture building this section, was a 2018 Australian Construction Achievement Award finalist for its work on the project.  
Supply Two mobile plants supplied concrete. Quarry products from a new Boral quarry at Macksville

Frederickton to Eungai

Section Port Macquarie to Coffs Harbour
Length 27 kilometres
Date 2016
Works Dual carriageway
Supply Concrete and cement

Kempsey Bypass

Section Port Macquarie to Coffs Harbour
Length 15 kilometres
Date 2013
Works Dual carriageway
Supply Concrete, cement and quarry materials

Kundabung to Kempsey

Section Port Macquarie to Coffs Harbour
Length 14 kilometres
Date Completed 2017
Works New four-lane divided road, interchange at Kundabung Road, intersections for local roads, bus stops, and new rest areas at Barrys Creek
Supply Concrete, cement and quarry materials

Oxley Highway to Kundabung

Section Port Macquarie to Coffs Harbour
Length 23 kilometres
Date Completed 2017
Works Upgrade to a four-lane highway between Oxley Highway and Barrys Creek at Kundabung. The works included 23 bridges with major river crossings over the Hastings and Wilson rivers and interchanges at Sancrox, Blackmans Point and Haydons Wharf roads.
Supply High-specification aggregates, road base, concrete, quicklime, cement and fly ash via trucks and rail.

Sapphire to Woolgoolga

Section Coffs Harbour to Ballina
Length 25 kilometres
Date 2012-2014
Works 25km new highway and 15km upgraded local roads, allowing local traffic, including school buses, to remain off the highway.
Supply Asphalt from local fixed and on-site mobile plants that was delivered by local crews, supplemented at peak periods by Boral crews from other depots.

Halfway Creek to Glenugie Upgrade

Section Coffs Harbour to Ballina
Length 12 kilometres
Date 2017
Works Dual carriageway
Supply Asphalt 

Woolgoolga to Ballina

Length 155 kilometres
Date Ongoing
Works Four-lane divided road, more than 100 bridges, and bypasses of South Grafton, Ulmarra, Woodburn, Broadwater and Wardell
Supply Concrete, asphalt and quarry products