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New Amey director to drive highways work23/06/2011 Amey has appointed James Trotter as Business Development Director of its Local Government division to drive further growth in the highways and infrastructure market. |
Cumbria to bring maintenance back in-house01/09/2011 Cumbria County Council has confirmed it will bring highways maintenance workers in-house when its contract with Amey expires next March. |
Birmingham 'never better prepared' for winter03/11/2011 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. |
Amey highways deal to save Windsor £200k22/05/2012 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. |
Amey to start new £6m Scottish traffic deal in October31/07/2012 Amey has been awarded a £6m contract by Transport Scotland to provide traffic technology on major roads across the country. |
Amey seals £120m maintenance deal07/08/2012 Amey has won a five-year highways maintenance contract with Calderdale Council worth up to £120m. |
Amey buys street light connection company18/09/2012 Amey has bought independent street light connections provider Nationwide Distribution Services. |
Amey maintenance staff seal 10% pay rise05/10/2012 Road workers employed by Amey on a PFI highways maintenance contract in Sheffield have won pay rises of at least 10%. |
Amey owner buys Enterprise21/02/2013 Spanish contracting giant Ferrovial has bought maintenance and utility contractor Enterprise from investment group 3i for £385m. |
Amey wins Liverpool contracts07/06/2013 Amey will deliver highways and street cleaning services across Liverpool after successfully bidding for two contracts worth £113 million. |
Amey wins A737 design work contract22/07/2013 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. |
Amey wins safety awards05/08/2013 Highways service provider Amey has won four nationally recognised health and safety awards. |
Amey awarded Area 6 ASC contract22/08/2013 Amey has been awarded the Highways Agency asset support contract (ASC) in Area 6. |
Amey wins latest £200m ASC deal10/10/2013 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. |
Amey wins Gloucestershire contract09/12/2013 Amey will deliver highways services across Gloucestershire after being awarded a contract that could be worth up to £450 million. |
Clearview works with Amey in Scotland06/01/2014 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. |
Amey in running for Infrastructure+ contract21/01/2014 Amey has been announced as the preferred bidder for Staffordshire County Council’s new Infrastructure+ contract. |
Amey to help deliver improved highways services in Staffordshire12/02/2014 Staffordshire County Council hopes a new partnership with Amey will improve the quality of its highways services and deliver savings. |
Amey to start running highways services in Gloucestershire28/03/2014 Amey will start providing highways services for Gloucestershire County Council from 1 April 2014. |
Amey's road patchers can fix potholes in two minutes14/04/2014 A machine that can fix potholes in two minutes will soon be seen on the roads in East Anglia and the East of England. |
Amey wins £92m highways contract in Scotland17/06/2014 Amey has been awarded a six-year contract to maintain and improve the motorways and trunk roads in south east Scotland. |
New roads maintenance contracts begin in the east of Scotland16/08/2014 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). |
Amey puts traffic management vehicles into operation22/08/2014 Amey has put a fleet of six new traffic management vehicles into operation on its contracts with the Highways Agency. |
Amey wins Forth bridges contract03/12/2014 Amey has secured a contract worth between £40-60 million to operate two major river crossings in the East of Scotland. |
Amey staff to strike in dispute over pay12/02/2015 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. |
Area 8 Amey staff could go on strike for a week24/02/2015 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. |
Amey staff call off week-long strike action04/03/2015 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. |
Amey wins £235m contract with Trafford Council19/05/2015 Amey has won a £235 million contract to provide environmental and infrastructure services for Trafford Council. |
Amey to start work on major road scheme in Staffordshire21/05/2015 Work on a major road improvement scheme to serve a new business park near Stone, in Staffordshire will start next week. |
New signals help cyclists get a head start in Liverpool18/06/2015 A new scheme is helping cyclists in Liverpool to beat the traffic. |
Toppesfield awarded 20-year maintenance contract23/06/2015 Toppesfield has been awarded a 20-year road maintenance contract in Birmingham. |
Smart motorways investment for England announced22/07/2015 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. |
Amey re-secures place on Scottish framework21/08/2015 Amey has re-secured a position on Transport Scotland’s Major Transport Infrastructure Projects (MTRIPs) framework. |
Haluch to head up strategic highways business at Amey02/09/2015 James Haluch has been appointed strategic highways business director at Amey. |
Amey invests £1m in protecting cyclists25/11/2015 Amey is investing almost £1million in new fleet technology that is designed to protect cyclists and pedestrians. |
Forth Road Bridge shut till New Year amid safety fears04/12/2015 The Forth Road Bridge is to shut until the New Year for repairs following the discovery of defective steelwork. |
Repair work plans for Forth Road Bridge finalised14/12/2015 A team of engineers from Amey have been working hard to develop a solution to structural problems on the Forth Road Bridge. |
Milner named as new CEO of Amey10/02/2016 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. |
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HE awards new-style contract worth over £300m to Amey21/03/2016 Amey has been awarded a £300 million contract to carry out highway maintenance services and repairs in Area 7 on the Highways England network. |
Hertfordshire CC keeping disruption to a minimum04/05/2016 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. |
Amey develops new mobile asphalt unit01/07/2016 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. |
Drones to be used for inspecting roads13/07/2016 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. |
Tarmac and Amey set new asphalt laying record in Scotland14/07/2016 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. |
Haluch named managing director of Amey's highways business22/07/2016 James Haluch has been appointed managing director of Amey's newly formed highways business. |
Final Forth Road Bridge repairs almost complete05/09/2016 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. |
New sensors trialled to monitor flooding19/10/2016 The engineering company Amey is installing sensors into gullies in a trial in Hampshire aimed at preventing the flooding of roads. |
HE awards new highway maintenance deals worth £300m15/12/2016 Highways England has awarded four new style asset delivery contracts worth over £300 million to Kier, a CH2M/Costain joint venture and Amey. |
Harbot joins Amey15/12/2016 Former Highways England regional director Tim Harbot has joined Amey as director of technical excellence for its highways executive team. |
Pilot project launched to help gritting teams26/01/2017 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. |
Through the bad times and the good13/03/2018 Neil Gibson, first vice president of council directors’ body ADEPT gives his views on what makes successful partnerships between local authorities and suppliers. |
Amey moves on to deliver 'cycle revolution' in Birmingham09/04/2018 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. |
Gully sensor tech 'requires significant refinement'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. |
The road ahead: Getting investment right for our highways networks from 202024/04/2018 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. |
Amey books £200m loss over Birmingham troubles11/05/2018 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. |
Scotland contractors call for end to roadworker abuse07/06/2018 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. |
Amey hit by £50m Birmingham PFI compensation13/06/2018 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. |
Amey set for another legal showdown30/07/2018 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. |
West Sussex to relaunch procurement process in light of legal challenge01/08/2018 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. |
Amey wins two-year extension in Kent28/11/2018 Amey has secured a two-year contract extension with Kent County Council to maintain their highways portfolio until 2020. |
Amey goes up for sale03/12/2018 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. |
West Mids GLOSA system 'could be crucial for CAVs'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 |
Amey set to go private, report says13/12/2018 Roads and services contractor Amey is set to be sold to a private equity firm in the New Year, it has been reported. |
Drivers 'wilfully ignoring safety advice' at roadworks31/01/2019 Key industry figures have called for drivers to modify their behaviour after a majority admitted to driving in ways that put roadworkers at risk. |
Comment: Using our influence to change driver behaviour31/01/2019 James Haluch managing director for highways at Amey, asks: How do we tackle motorists’ nonchalant attitude towards safety when it comes to roadworks? |
The magnificent seven: Spencer Group applies £10m Forth Road Bridge fix13/02/2019 High-level bridge works specialist Spencer Group has delivered a complex £10m project to maintain the structural integrity of the Forth Road Bridge. |
Amey facing £200m Birmingham divorce bill18/02/2019 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. |
Ferrovial slashes Amey's sale price by £660m28/02/2019 Spanish infrastructure giant Ferrovial has slashed the sale price of Amey by £660m leaving it valued at £88m. |
Will Amey and Birmingham finally part ways?26/04/2019 Reports suggest a final decision may be close in the ongoing disputes between Amey and Birmingham City Council over its PFI debacle. |
Birmingham councillors to agree Amey settlement22/05/2019 Birmingham City Council’s cabinet is to decide on terms to end its fraught highways contract with Amey at a meeting tomorrow. |
Birmingham members reserve final say on Amey settlement23/05/2019 The final details of a settlement between Birmingham City Council and highways contractor Amey will go before senior councillors next month. |
Four win places on Midlands £70m framework29/05/2019 The Midlands Highways Alliance has announced the four suppliers who have won places on its new professional services framework, which could be worth up to £70m over four years. |
Amey appoints former Colas boss to Highways team10/06/2019 Amey has appointed former Colas boss Peter Bamfield to its Highways Executive team as a business director, taking over the management of Amey’s maintenance and management contract with Sheffield City Council. |
Analysis: Citizen engagement at the heart of tomorrow’s services19/06/2019 Amey business director (highways) David Ogden looks at citizen engagement and its role in the future of highways / public services. |
Amey pays £215m to end Birmingham PFI03/07/2019 Amey has agreed to pay Birmingham City Council £215m to terminate its Highways PFI contract following a high profile court case. |
Amey seeks consistency after £428m loss01/08/2019 Amey UK Plc has posted a loss of £428m for 2018 after extricating itself from the controversial Birmingham Highways PFI. |
Birmingham seeks £85m interim highways contractor22/08/2019 Birmingham City Council’s highways PFI vehicle has launched a search for a subcontractor to operate and maintain the city’s roads for a 15-month period in a deal worth up to £85m. |
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