costain

02/06/2011

Costain has helped to deliver £15million worth of cost savings for a major road project in Port Talbot through managing innovative client specific solutions and value engineering.

15/06/2011

Costain has fought off competition from two Spanish consortia to win the £150m contract to build the A465 Heads of the Valleys road in South Wales.

15/03/2012

Lancashire’s proposed £123m Heysham to M6 link road project will be the first highway to go before the Government’s fast-track planning body.

06/03/2013

Highways work helped Costain to deliver a big rise in profits despite challenging trading in general construction during 2012.

19/06/2013

Costain is working on a £4 million contract that involves enlarging a roundabout on junction 21 of the M5 at Weston-Super-Mare.

18/07/2013

Costain has received national recognition for work carried out on the £68 million Harbour Way section of the peripheral distributor road in Port Talbot, Wales.

19/07/2013

Costain has been awarded an Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) contract by the Highways Agency for the A160/A180 Port of Immingham improvement scheme in North Lincolnshire.

06/09/2013

BAM Nuttall, Costain, Interserve and Tarmac are chasing a £2.8 million deal with the Highways Agency for improvements to junction 10 of the M42. A decision is imminent with Amey expected to oversee work for the Agency.

30/10/2013

Costain has been awarded the contract for the new bridge deck construction at Junction 6 of Coventry ring road.

04/11/2013

Costain is currently in the early contractor involvement (ECI) phase of a £70million project to strengthen and refurbish the Hammersmith Flyover in West London on behalf of Transport for London (Tfl).

20/12/2013

Costain has been awarded a £100 million contract by Lancashire County Council to construct the M6 Heysham link road.

13/01/2014

Costain has been awarded a £5 million contract to build a 1km single carriageway road at Manchester airport.

20/02/2014

Small and medium sized local businesses could end up working alongside Coventry City Council and Costain to help deliver major road projects. 

09/04/2014

The Mott MacDonald Grontmij joint venture (MMG JV) will carry out a technical assurance role for the A160/A180 Port of Immingham improvement scheme near Grimsby.

19/06/2014

Costain is one of four contractors that have been selected to deliver an upgrade to the M60 and M62 motorways on behalf of the Highways Agency.

29/08/2014

Costain has got the go-ahead to build a £130m bypass on one of the north west’s busiest A roads.

11/09/2014

Costain has been awarded two new smart motorway scheme contracts under the Highways Agency’s Major Projects Framework.

17/11/2014

Costain has been appointed by the Highways Agency to deliver major improvements to the A556.

04/12/2014

Costain is set to bid for work under a new framework contract on major road tunnels in North Wales, owned and operated by Welsh Government.

08/12/2014

Costain has introduced a new way to improve excavator safety whilst working on the M1 J28-31 smart motorway project.

23/03/2015

Costain and Vinci will deliver the £750 million M4 Corridor upgrade around Newport after being awarded the early contractor involvement deal.

31/03/2015

Work on the £124.5 million M6 Heysham link road is progressing quickly with contractor Costain putting up a number of major structures along the route.

12/05/2015

Costain is working with supply chain partner Lafarge Tarmac to reduce the carbon footprint of the construction of the Heysham to M6 link road in Lancashire.

03/06/2015

A Costain/Skanska joint venture will deliver two of the three sections of the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme after being awarded a £600 million contract by Highways England.

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.

29/07/2015

The new chief executive of Highways England has made his first site visit.

05/08/2015

Two workers have been injured, one seriously, while working on the A556 improvement project.

27/08/2015

Costain is supporting the development of self-healing concrete by carrying out trials on one of its live highway projects in Wales.

28/10/2015

The UK’s first major trial of self-healing concrete is underway in Wales.

09/12/2015

Seven leading contractors and consultants have joined forces with the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) to help fund a new state-of-the-art engineering exhibition and learning centre.

10/12/2015

Large numbers of great crested newts have been found on the M1 smart motorway scheme.

17/12/2015

A-one+ has won two major maintenance contracts with Highways England in Areas 4 and 12.

17/12/2015

A Costain/CH2M joint venture has won a £300 million contract to maintain the roads in East Sussex.

20/01/2016

A CH2M/Costain joint venture has been awarded a £300 million contract to carry out 2,000 miles of road improvements in East Sussex.

25/01/2016

Costain is helping to install a range of safety systems in tunnels along the A55 trunk road in North Wales.

01/02/2016

Costain has been awarded an £110 million Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) contract by Lancashire County Council for the Preston Western Distributor and associated link roads.

23/02/2016

Highways service provider A-one+ has reached the milestone of one thousand days and four million working hours without a reportable accident in Area 12.

04/04/2016

Thirty giant concrete bridge beams have been lifted into place over the A160 near Immingham as part of a £88.4 million project to improve access to one of the UK’s busiest ports.

28/04/2016

Costain will start work on a £300 million contract with East Sussex County Council on Sunday (1 May).

28/06/2016

A-one+ has started work on a Highways England contract that is worth up to £70 million per year in Kent and Sussex.

06/07/2016

Costain has completed the acquisition of Simulation Systems Limited (SSL), a provider of technology-based solutions for the highways sector, in a deal worth £17 million.   

05/08/2016

Work on the £130 million Heysham to M6 link road is nearing completion.  

10/10/2016

L&R Roadlines will install road markings along the A556 between Knutsford and Bowdon after being awarded a major contract to become a key supply chain partner to Costain.  

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.

05/01/2017

Costain, Morgan Sindall and Skanska will deliver £500 million worth of improvements to the capital's road network on behalf of Transport for London (TfL).

18/01/2017

Work on the Highways England A556 Knutsford to Bowdon improvement scheme is progressing well.

04/06/2018

Costain has won the M6 J21a-26 smart motorway contract from Highways England to work on the upgrade between the M62 and M58 junctions in north west England.

21/08/2018

Highways England has awarded Costain a key contract to design, install and implement one of the UK’s first pilot connected vehicle corridors on a live road.

06/03/2019

Costain has announced Andrew Wyllie CBE is stepping down as CEO after 14 years.

22/03/2019

Highways England has appointed Costain to deliver major improvements on the £125m upgrade scheme A19 in the North East of England.

12/04/2019

Highways talks to the the creators of the Traffex Future Mobility feature to explain how they see the future of mobility.

22/07/2019

One of the stars of Traffex 2019's Future Mobility Zone, Costain, has been awarded innovation funding from Highways England for two connected digital roads projects.

15/10/2019

The final cost to taxpayers of a troubled Welsh highways scheme remains unknown, two years after the Welsh Government revealed it was in dispute with contractor Costain over liability for a 25% cost increase.

12/12/2019

Around a half of Costain's annual profits have been wiped out after it lost a ruling in favour of the Welsh Government on the A465 Heads of the Valleys road project.