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 […]
ICE wants further insight on whether the UK’s model of planning and designing infrastructure is as effective as it could be
The Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) has started a consultation that will ask whether the UK’s model of planning, prioritising and designing infrastructure – led by the National infrastructure Commission (NIC) – is as effective as it could be. The first round of the UK’s infrastructure planning process culminated in the publication of a National Infrastructure Strategy. […]
Wakefield Council to install more rapid chargers following rise in demand
Wakefield Council plans to install more electric charging points across the district after recent data showed existing rapid chargers have been used almost 9,000 times in the last year. The council has already installed 10 rapid chargers in the district so far, with a further six planned this year. Cllr Jack Hemingway, Wakefield Council’s Cabinet […]
Atkins and Mott Macdonald among the winners on Scottish trunk roads framework
Atkins, Mott MacDonald and Jacobs have all been awarded several contracts by Transport Scotland as part of the trunk roads framework. The consultants were awarded the work through Transport Scotland’s Asset management framework, including work that covers updating manuals through to road asset management plans and training courses. Atkins won five seperate contracts, Jacobs three […]