Hertfordshire County Council starts search for contractor for new highways term maintenance contract
Hertfordshire County Council has started its search for a new highways term maintenance contractor. In a contractor which could be worth £1,950,000,000 over 12 years, the service provider will be expected to ‘innovate and maximise potential for success.’ The authority intends to focus on the following: • A service delivered in line with Hertfordshire’s Sustainability […]
Investing in surface dressing saves councils’ money in the long-term, says REA
The latest additional money (2023/24) for highway maintenance should be spent on preparation for surface dressing, to help prevent potholes forming in the future, and less money being spent on fixing them. In subsequent years (2024/25 onwards), the additional money should be invested into surface dressing and other preventative maintenance treatments. These are the thoughts […]
Balfour Beatty Living Places wins £330m highways extension in Lincolnshire
Balfour Beatty Living Places has doubled the length of its highways maintenance deal with Lincolnshire County Council. The agreement means the UK’s biggest contractor by turnover will look after roads in the area until 2032. Balfour was awarded a £217m deal back in 2019, which began in April 2020 for an initial period of six years, […]
Somerset Council teams respond to heavy rain and flooding
Somerset Council’s Highways teams have been responding to incidents across the county following heavy rain this week. They responded to more than 40 incidents, many of them minor road closures due to flooding, as rain swept through the county. More than 20 schools took the decision to close as a result of the bad weather […]
Nearly 50,000 sq metres of roads resurfaced in Luton this summer to create safer roads
Work to repair roads that are near the end of their life has been completed in Luton. These roads have been resurfaced to replace damage to the layers in the surface that cannot be treated or repaired in any other way. Working with its contractor VolkerHighways, this year Luton Council has completed 48,204 square metres […]
Multi-million pound upgrade to Liverpool’s roads begins
Liverpool City Council has appointed three contractors to deliver the next phase of its Highways Investment Programme (HIP). The Council’s Transportation and Highways team and their delivery partners are now progressing with the upgrade of more than 29 roads, through an £11m eco-friendly maintenance programme, which will see the delivery of: • 10 schemes in the […]
WJ Group secures a place on Barnet Council’s Highways Maintenance Works Framework Agreement
WJ Group has been announced as the sole supplier for Lot 9, which covers road studs and markings, further cementing WJ’s position as a key delivery partner to local authorities across the UK. This latest success increases the number of contracts WJ holds with local authorities to 68. The four-year framework will enable Barnet Council […]
Gwynedd Council starts tender process for north west Wales roads framework
Gwynedd Council has started the tender process to find contractors for its £100 million civils framework. This will include work on the trunk road and county areas in North and mid-Wales. Gwynedd Council has launched the framework, which is for works across five Welsh local authority areas: Gwynedd, Conwy and Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham, West Wales […]
New technology used to assess Staffordshire’s roads
Highways inspectors in Staffordshire will soon have another tool in their bid to assess the condition of the county’s roads—AI. As inspectors make their way around the county, a smartphone app mounted to the windscreen will collect video data. Officers then upload the footage to be processed via AI, giving them a full picture of […]
VolkerHighways awarded a place on Barnet Council’s Highways Maintenance Works Framework
VolkerHighways has announced that it has secured a place on Barnet Council’s major Highways Maintenance Works Framework Lot 1 contract for the provision of Traffic Safety and Management services. The four-year framework will enable the council to effectively provide business resilience to support the management and maintenance of the council’s highways network. It will be […]
