Highway Care wins two RoSPA awards
Highway Care has been awarded the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Gold Award for Health and Safety performance for the second year in a row. The RoSPA Gold Award is awarded to businesses recognised as being world-leaders in health and safety practice. Almost 2,000 entrants compete to achieve the highest possible accolade in […]
Kier/WSP JV gets Northamptonshire highways contract
A Kier/WSP joint venture has been awarded the highway maintenance contract for Northamptonshire CC. The contract, worth £120 million, is over 16 months, with a possible nine month extension and will include responsive maintenance, work on road bridges in the city of Northampton and also public consultation. The project will also include managing the county’s […]
A route to a better future for local highways?
A £15 billion fund for local roads could be created by closely linking to inflation and then released on a TOTEX basis, removing the public sector restrictions on capital and revenue spending, according to the Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT). The idea comes as part of a new report by CIHT, Improving Local […]
ITS (UK) appoints TRL’s Ryan Hood as Chairman
The UK Intelligent Transport Society, ITS (UK), has appointed Ryan Hood as its new Chairman. Mr Hood, who is TRL’s Strategic Account Manager, will replace Ian Patey who held his position for an unprecedented three years. Speaking at the recent ITS (UK) Council meeting, held by a teleconference, Mr Hood said: “These are interesting times […]
Warwickshire turns to Yotta for asset management
Warwickshire CC has awarded technology company, Yotta a major multi-year contract to deliver strategic asset management across its 2,500 mile-long highways network. Yotta will provide the council with its flagship connected asset management platform, Alloy and associated services and support to help deliver highways, streetworks and permitting, along with streetlighting management across the country. Warwickshire […]
Highways England publishes new version of DMRB
Highways England has published the new version of its Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB). Its new format and website interface will offer a simpler way for users to access and use the documents needed. Steve Davy, Head of Technical Services at Highways England said: “To help the highways industry operate more efficiently and […]
DfT aims to ‘decarbonise’ transport
The Department for Transport (DfT) has launched a report aimed at accelerating the decarbonisation of Transport. The Transport De-carbonisation Plan (TDP), sets out in detail what government, business and society will need to do to deliver the significant emissions reduction needed across all modes of transport, putting the UK on a ‘pathway to achieving carbon […]
Three contractors join forces in Lincolnshire
Balfour Beatty and Colas has joined forces with WSP in Lincolnshire to carry out essential maintenance and improvement works over the next few weeks to ensure the county’s roads are clear for emergency service’s fight against coronavirus. The contract, worth a combined £762 million will run for six years with a potential extension for another […]
Amey lands SW highways contract in Scotland
Amey has been awarded the contract to maintain and improve the motorways and trunk roads across the south west of Scotland. As part of the Network Management Contract (NMC), Amey will deliver engineering design and operational delivery services, from August this year , for more than 600 km of roads. The £400m contract will run […]
M6 junction 19 work to start for Amey/McAlpine
The Amey and McAlpine joint venture project at Junction 19 of the M6 is to start despite the latest challenges around COVID-19, The major roundabout improvement works near Knutsford in Cheshire, includes building a new bridge through an existing roundabout and over the M6 to help create better traffic movements between the M6 and A556. […]