RIS 2 follows massive spend on infrastructure
The Road Investment Strategy 2, from 2020-2025 has been launched, which comes with a budget of £27.4bn. This is an increase from the £25.3bn originally suggested and includes the completion of schemes carried over from RIS1 and the development of new upgrades worth £14.7bn by 2025. Over £20bn of the £27.4bn budget is capital spending, […]
ALARM reaches 25 years-but is there anything to celebrate?
The overall maintenance backlog for local roads has increased by 14%, with councils having to deal with an average fall in highway maintenance budgets of 16%. Last year, the backlog increased to £11.14bn from £9.79 the year before. The findings of this year’s Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance (ALARM) 2020 survey revealed that this shortfall […]
Covid-19 statement from Highways England
Statement from Malcolm Dare, Executive Director, Commercial and Procurement, Highways England which we have been asked to share with the sector Following my recent e-mails I am writing to update you further on Highways England’s approach to the C-19 challenges. The Highways England direction and guiding principles have not changed-they are to remain focused on […]
Chevron TM reaches 7 million hours without a RIDDOR
Having a consistent and positive approach to changing the culture of how staff engage with health, safety and wellbeing initiatives, alongside its commitment to the use of digital services within traffic management, has contributed towards Chevron Group reaching seven million working hours without a RIDDOR. The milestone, which was reached earlier this month, has followed […]
Kier signs A585 contract
Kier Highways has signed the contract to deliver the £150m A585 Windy Harbour to Skippool scheme. The project is being delivered through Highways England’s six-year £8.7bn Regional Delivery Partnership (RDP) framework, which Kier was appointed to in November 2018. The scheme will see the construction of a new three-mile dual carriageway bypass to alleviate the […]
Kier awarded Birmingham highways contract
Kier Highways has been appointed to manage the 15-month interim highways services contract for Birmingham Highways Ltd (BHL) until the end of June 2021. The contract includes the city’s traffic operations, planned and reactive maintenance, inspections and winter servicing. It covers more than 2,500km of road and 5,000km of footways, as well as 846 structures, three […]
Hindle joins Kier as Group Managing Director for Highways
Kier has appointed Nicola Hindle as Group Managing Director for Kier Highways. Ms Hindle will be responsible for the highways business which includes providing maintenance and capital projects across a range of major contracts including area’s 3,9 and 13 of the strategic network as well as the design and build of part of the A585 […]
WJ continue to raise the bar on cultural safety
Changing and challenging the culture of its workforce remains a top priority now and in the future for the WJ Group, according to Wayne Johnston, its Managing Director. Mr Johnston was speaking shortly after the 2020 WJ Health & Safety Seminar in Taunton, where he said there was ‘no place for complacency’ anywhere in the […]
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Reducing carbon emission should be a priority, says WJ
Carbon reduction should be an integral part of the procurement process in the highways sector, encouraging more companies to significantly reduce carbon as part of any future projects, according to Paul Aldridge, Sustainability Director at WJ Group. Speaking after the accomplishment of WJ’s Product Carbon Footprint Model, Mr Aldridge said: “At the moment there is […]