Multevo strength Civil Engineering Division with new appointment
Multevo has appointed Luke Dean as Civil Engineering Contracts Manager to support recent service delivery successes across the UK. The Constructionline Gold company created the civils arm of the business to help support its popular nationwide highway maintenance operations using the Multihog to deliver highway maintenance services. Multevo is also the UK distributor for the […]
Wokingham Borough Council receives extra funding for air quality
Wokingham Borough Council has received an additional £259,000 from the government to improve the air quality in the area. The money is from the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)and the council will work alongside the Public Protection Partnership (PPP), to reach its aim of becoming carbon-neutral by 2030. The council, which has declared […]
Transport for Buckinghamshire launches new road safety campaign
Transport for Buckinghamshire has launched a new road safety campaign aimed at informing drivers tto ‘share the road’ safely. Throughout April, Transport for Buckinghamshire’s road safety initiative, Travel Safe Bucks, will be focusing on the ‘Share the Road’ campaign. This supports the Thames Valley Police and Hampshire Constabulary ongoing ‘Two Wheels’ campaign, looking at biker, […]
East Riding Council starts surface dressing programme
Work is underway on a £2.3million road improvement scheme across the East Riding. Over the next five months, the highways crews will upgrade road surfaces at 207 locations. Around 13,000 tonnes of stone chippings will be laid on 67 miles of road, from A roads to unclassified routes. This year’s surface dressing programme has been […]
Bam Nuttall to deliver A27 Arundel bypass works
Bam Nuttall is to deliver the main works package on the A27 Arundel bypass project. The company forms part of the Linkconnex consortium, that also includes AECOM and Mace, which has been working on the design and preliminary stage of the project since the end of 2018. Construction News now reports that the consortium will […]
Tarmac demonstrates how to keep roads moving in Rutland with JCB’s new pothole repair machine
Tarmac and JCB have completed trials of the PotholePro in partnership with Rutland County Council. With the ability to repair a pothole in less than eight minutes, Tarmac’s highway services team carried out a full day of demonstrations with the JCB PotholePro on a 140 square metre patch of asphalt at Ashwell Business Park in […]
Sunderland highway project delivers £17m boost for local businesses
Local small and medium-sized businesses in and around Sunderland have been awarded over £17 million worth of contracts as part of a new highways scheme. New figures released show that £17.1m – 43% of the total scheme procurement – has been spent with local SMEs on the highways scheme in the City of Sunderland. Phase […]
Total UK, Tarmac and Highways England put new bitumen binder on long-term trials on A43
A new bitumen binder which aims to help increase the lifespan of roads is being put to the test in a long-term study. Total UK has partnered with Highways England and Tarmac to resurface a section of the A43 dual carriageway in Northamptonshire, with Total Styrelf Long Life. Three sections of the road have been surfaced, the first with a […]
More than £10 million to be invested in South Lanarkshire roads over the next year
More than £10 million is to be invested in South Lanarkshire’s roads overbthe next year, according to the council. Around £7.5m will be spent on resurfacing programmes with a further £2.6m to be spent on patching, preventative maintenance, footways, structures, traffic signals, lighting and investment with North Lanarkshire Council at Horsley Brae, according to Scottish […]
North Ayrshire Council to invest in roads, lighting and bridges
North Ayrshire Council has announced it is to invest in a programme of maintenance of roads, lighting and bridges. The plans will see £5.6million spent on roads and footways, with £1.25million allocated to lighting and £710,000 to bridges and other structures. An additional £700,000 has also been brought forward to accelerate the delivery of the […]