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 […]
Westmorland and Furness Council starts search for contractor to deliver surface treatments
Westmorland and Furness Council has started its search for a contractor to deliver capital highway maintenance works with a focus on surface treatments. The services to be delivered under this contract are capital highway maintenance works to repair worn out carriageway. Primary works will include surface dressing, micro asphalt, asphalt preservation, high friction surfacing work […]
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 […]
RAC deals with record number of third-quarter pothole breakdowns, but there are solutions…
The poor condition of Britain’s local roads has led to the RAC dealing with the highest number of pothole-related breakdowns it has seen in any third quarter since it began recording this data in 2006. RAC patrols went to the rescue of 5,978 drivers from July to September for damaged shock absorbers, broken suspension springs […]
Redbridge Council trials new pothole technique
Redbridge Council is trialling a spray injection patching machine from Velocity to fix more potholes across the borough. The machine is made by road repair firm Velocity, who say the patching process ‘takes just a couple of minutes’ and does not involve excavation, waste, or heat. The council has said the machine had achieved a […]
Hampshire County Council to approve latest round of cuts, including highway maintenance
Plans, including cuts to public transport, turning off street lights, fixing potholes and removing school crossing patrols, are all part of Hampshire County Council’s plan to slash spending. The council will meet next week (November 9) to approve, as recommended, the saving proposal to try to fill the £132 million budget gap forecasted by 2025/26. […]
Operations begin in the London Borough of Barnet as Marlborough Highways wins major Maintenance Framework Contract
Marlborough Highways is delighted to announced that it has secured a place on Barnet Council’s Highway Maintenance Works Framework. The four-year partnership commenced on 1 June 2023 and involves planned carriageway and footway reconstruction works in the London Borough of Barnet, with an option to extend for two further years. The award comes after a competitive bid process, […]
Core Highways Strengthens leadership team
Core Highways Group has strengthened its position in the UK highways services sector with the appointment of respected industry figures Jenny Moten and Charlie Cornish. On the operations side, Jenny Moten has joined the company as Regional Managing Director, arriving from Cadent Gas where she was Northwest Network Director – overseeing £2.5bn of assets and […]
Tarmac delivers trio of UK’s lowest carbon road maintenance projects
Three local roads in the north east have become the lowest carbon highways ever to be resurfaced in the UK, thanks to a project that has set a new benchmark for the way roads are maintained. Working in partnership with Hartlepool Borough Council and Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council together with international partners including Shell, Volvo CE, […]