Cormac on the search for contractors to support council’s technical services framework
Cornwall Council’s highways, engineering and construction specialist Cormac Solutions is seeking to establish a strategic partnership for a technical services framework, which will cover geotechnical and geoenvironmental assessment and design. The aim of the framework is to provide additional resources to support Cormac Solutions’ existing design consultancy capabilities. This will help the company provide quality […]
Further funding available for Southend-on-Sea to ‘unlock’ city’s potential
Southend-on-Sea City Council is set to bid for up to £26.5m of funding through round two of the Government’s Levelling Up Fund, which could see major improvements to the A127 and several projects to help unlock the High Street’s potential. The council’s Cabinet will discuss a report which outlines two bids for the Levelling Up […]
New deal to tackle highways flooding in Dudley
Highways bosses have put pen to paper on a deal that will help tackle flooding on the roads by potentially clearing more blockages in the drainage system. Dudley Council has signed a deal with Onsite Central Limited worth £1million over the next five years. The agreement will allow crews to attend more of the gullies […]
Marlborough Highways awarded London Borough of Islington Contract
Marlborough Highways has announced that it has been awarded the £32m five-year Term Service Highway Works Contract by the London Borough of Islington after a competitive bid process. The Contract – which is valued at approximately £4.57 million per annum – will deliver significant social value by supporting Islington Council’s net zero carbon ambitions, while […]
£485,000 essential maintenance planned for A90 Kingsway in Dundee
Road safety barrier upgrades are planned for the A90 Kingsway in Dundee at the Kings Cross and Coupar Angus Interchanges with the project set to get underway on Sunday 3 July. The project will involve teams removing the existing road safety barriers on the A90 central reserve and replacing them with an upgraded system, ensuring […]
Major investment in roads and pavements pays off in East Sussex
Highways teams in East Sussex are working hard to plan and repair thousands of additional metres of road and pavements across the county funded from an additional £5.8 million investment. East Sussex County Council’s Cabinet approved additional, one-off funding at the end of 2021 to carry out additional work on top of that covered by […]
Additional £2.75million funding for roads resurfacing, enforcement and street cleaning across the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees
Stockton-on-Tees Council is set to invest a further £2.75 million on road improvements and street cleaning across the borough. Details of how an extra £2.75million is being spent on roads resurfacing, enforcement and street cleaning across the Borough have been reported to the Council’s Cabinet. Part of the extra funding was agreed last year using […]
£6m funding boost to make Surrey’s roads safer
Over £6m of additional funding will be dedicated to improving road safety around schools, making walking and cycling safer, and to tackle speeding at known collision hotspots across the county over the next three years. The new funding for a range of highways improvements, will be allocated as follows: £1m per year to improve road […]
East Riding of Yorkshire Council to use cooler asphalt to help reduce CO2
East Riding of Yorkshire Council will use low temperature asphalt to repair a village road to reduce the works’ carbon footprint. The council said using the cooler asphalt reduces the amount of energy needed to manufacture the material and allows roads to be reopened more quickly than hot asphalt, reports the BBC. Councillor Chris Matthews, […]
Road retexturing solution helps achieve carbon savings
VolkerHighways recently collaborated with WJ Group and West Berkshire Council to raise skid resistance levels to improve the safety of roads across West Berkshire while dramatically reducing the volume of carbon emissions produced to carry out the works. Over time, traffic causes the skid resistance on asphalted roads to reduce. To tackle this, VolkerHighways partnered […]