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23/06/2011

Amey has appointed James Trotter as Business Development Director of its Local Government division to drive further growth in the highways and infrastructure market.

01/09/2011

Cumbria County Council has confirmed it will bring highways maintenance workers in-house when its contract with Amey expires next March.

03/11/2011

Birmingham City Council is confident it can tackle the worst winter can bring after a big investment in its gritter fleet and new GPS technology.

22/05/2012

New highways contracts awarded by the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead to Amey should save the authority more than £200,000 over the next two years.

31/07/2012

Amey has been awarded a £6m contract by Transport Scotland to provide traffic technology on major roads across the country.

07/08/2012

Amey has won a five-year highways maintenance contract with Calderdale Council worth up to £120m.

18/09/2012

Amey has bought independent street light connections provider Nationwide Distribution Services.

05/10/2012

Road workers employed by Amey on a PFI highways maintenance contract in Sheffield have won pay rises of at least 10%.

21/02/2013

Spanish contracting giant Ferrovial has bought maintenance and utility contractor Enterprise from investment group 3i for £385m.

07/06/2013

Amey will deliver highways and street cleaning services across Liverpool after successfully bidding for two contracts worth £113 million.

22/07/2013

Amey has been awarded a £500,000 contract that will see three road schemes in North Ayrshire brought together to improve a section of the A737.

05/08/2013

Highways service provider Amey has won four nationally recognised health and safety awards.

22/08/2013

Amey has been awarded the Highways Agency asset support contract (ASC) in Area 6.

10/10/2013

The Highways Agency has awarded Amey a £200m deal to maintain and improve motorways and major A roads in parts of Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

09/12/2013

Amey will deliver highways services across Gloucestershire after being awarded a contract that could be worth up to £450 million.  

06/01/2014

Clearview Traffic Group has been working in partnership with Amey to deliver the Traffic Scotland operations and infrastructure services contract (TSOISC) on behalf of Transport Scotland.

21/01/2014

Amey has been announced as the preferred bidder for Staffordshire County Council’s new Infrastructure+ contract.

12/02/2014

Staffordshire County Council hopes a new partnership with Amey will improve the quality of its highways services and deliver savings.

28/03/2014

Amey will start providing highways services for Gloucestershire County Council from 1 April 2014.

14/04/2014

A machine that can fix potholes in two minutes will soon be seen on the roads in East Anglia and the East of England.

17/06/2014

Amey has been awarded a six-year contract to maintain and improve the motorways and trunk roads in south east Scotland.

16/08/2014

Bear Scotland and Amey will take over responsibility for the maintenance of 1,164km of trunk roads in the east of Scotland from today (16 August 2014).

22/08/2014

Amey has put a fleet of six new traffic management vehicles into operation on its contracts with the Highways Agency.

03/12/2014

Amey has secured a contract worth between £40-60 million to operate two major river crossings in the East of Scotland.

12/02/2015

Amey maintenance staff working in area 8 plan to take the first in a series of planned 24 hours of strike action tomorrow (13 February) in a dispute over pay and contracts.

24/02/2015

Highways maintenance staff working on behalf of Amey in area 8 could go on strike for a week if Britain’s biggest union, Unite, fails to reach an agreement with management over pay and contracts.

04/03/2015

Highways maintenance staff who work for Amey in area 8 have called off six planned days of consecutive strike action after securing an improved two year pay deal.

19/05/2015

Amey has won a £235 million contract to provide environmental and infrastructure services for Trafford Council.

21/05/2015

Work on a major road improvement scheme to serve a new business park near Stone, in Staffordshire will start next week.

18/06/2015

A new scheme is helping cyclists in Liverpool to beat the traffic.

23/06/2015

Toppesfield has been awarded a 20-year road maintenance contract in Birmingham.

22/07/2015

Highways England has today appointed six joint-venture companies to design and build 10 smart motorways across England as part of a £1.5 billion investment.

21/08/2015

Amey has re-secured a position on Transport Scotland’s Major Transport Infrastructure Projects (MTRIPs) framework.

02/09/2015

James Haluch has been appointed strategic highways business director at Amey.

25/11/2015

Amey is investing almost £1million in new fleet technology that is designed to protect cyclists and pedestrians.

04/12/2015

The Forth Road Bridge is to shut until the New Year for repairs following the discovery of defective steelwork.

14/12/2015

A team of engineers from Amey have been working hard to develop a solution to structural problems on the Forth Road Bridge.

10/02/2016

Andy Milner has been named as the new chief executive of Amey and will take over from Mel Ewell who is retiring at the end of March.

22/02/2016

The Forth Road Bridge in Scotland has fully reopened.

21/03/2016

Amey has been awarded a £300 million contract to carry out highway maintenance services and repairs in Area 7 on the Highways England network.

04/05/2016

Hertfordshire County Council is working closely with other local authorities and contractors to ensure that disruption is kept to a minimum whilst highway maintenance is carried out.

01/07/2016

Amey has developed a mobile asphalt production unit that is enabling highways maintenance teams to work with much more flexibility – and with up to 30% less wastage.

13/07/2016

Asset management inspections will be carried out by drones – making it safer, quicker and easier to assess vital infrastructure such as roads, bridges and railways.

14/07/2016

Tarmac and Amey have set a new record for laying asphalt in Scotland after delivering almost 2,500 tonnes in under 30 hours on a section of the M9.

22/07/2016

James Haluch has been appointed managing director of Amey's newly formed highways business.

05/09/2016

Work to replace damaged “truss end links” that led to the closure of the Forth Road Bridge at the end of last year has started.

19/10/2016

The engineering company Amey is installing sensors into gullies in a trial in Hampshire aimed at preventing the flooding of roads.

15/12/2016

Highways England has awarded four new style asset delivery contracts worth over £300 million to Kier, a CH2M/Costain joint venture and Amey.

15/12/2016

Former Highways England regional director Tim Harbot has joined Amey as director of technical excellence for its highways executive team.  

26/01/2017

Highway maintenance teams will be able to make better gritting decisions based on local weather conditions thanks to the launch of a pilot project in Hampshire.

13/03/2018

Neil Gibson, first vice president of council directors’ body ADEPT gives his views on what makes successful partnerships between local authorities and suppliers.

09/04/2018

Amey has begun work on a £5.4m project in Birmingham to deliver a 4km two-way, fully segregated cycle route linking Selly Oak and the University of Birmingham with the city centre.

18/04/2018

Following a trial of sensors that can report when road gullies are getting blocked, a highway authority has said the technology will require further work before being widely used.

24/04/2018

James Haluch, managing director of Highways at Amey, welcomes hypothecated revenue for roads but says that an immaculately maintained strategic road network alongside a mesh of crumbling local roads is not a coherent highways strategy.

11/05/2018

Amey's parent company, Ferrovial, has reported a loss of some £141m in the first three months of 2018, mainly related to the fallout from the Birmingham PFI contract.

07/06/2018

Transport Scotland and the companies that operate its trunk road network have launched a roadworker safety campaign, asking drivers to help stamp out the ‘shocking’ levels of abuse suffered by their workers.

13/06/2018

Amey has been ordered to pay Birmingham City Council more than £50m in compensation after the contractor lost a long-running court battle earlier this year, according to reports.

30/07/2018

Amey is set for another showdown with a major council after partially winning an early round in a legal battle with West Sussex County Council.

01/08/2018

West Sussex County Council is to abandon its term maintenance procurement process and start again in light of a legal battle with Amey, Highways can reveal.

28/11/2018

Amey has secured a two-year contract extension with Kent County Council to maintain their highways portfolio until 2020.

03/12/2018

UK roads and services contractor Amey is being put up for sale as parent company Ferrovial, the Spanish infrastructure group that is also a part owner of Heathrow, is looking to sell its global support services division.

03/12/2018

A green light optimal speed advisory (GLOSA) system being trialled in the West Midlands has won a national ITS award. The system, which was installed

13/12/2018

Roads and services contractor Amey is set to be sold to a private equity firm in the New Year, it has been reported.

31/01/2019

Key industry figures have called for drivers to modify their behaviour after a majority admitted to driving in ways that put roadworkers at risk.

31/01/2019

James Haluch managing director for highways at Amey, asks: How do we tackle motorists’ nonchalant attitude towards safety when it comes to roadworks?

13/02/2019

High-level bridge works specialist Spencer Group has delivered a complex £10m project to maintain the structural integrity of the Forth Road Bridge.

18/02/2019

Amey could be set to pay more than £200m to extricate itself from its troubled 25-year PFI contract with Birmingham after years of legal difficulties, according to reports.

28/02/2019

Spanish infrastructure giant Ferrovial has slashed the sale price of Amey by £660m leaving it valued at £88m.