maintenance

14/04/2011

The public's satisfaction with the state of our roads and highways has fallen to a record low according to the latest survey released by the Institution of Civil Engineers this week.

12/05/2011

Balfour Beatty started work this week on a new-style £100m contract to maintain roads across Warwickshire and Coventry.

21/07/2011

28/07/2011

Amey and CarillionMouchel have put in detailed bids for the Sheffield Highway Maintenance PFI Project outlining how they will save £40m in road repairs.

28/07/2011

Councils are being urged to use the remainder of the summer as a window of opportunity to carry out necessary road maintenance to prevent another winter of pothole misery.

04/08/2011

The UK is sitting on a ‘time bomb of tatty tarmacadam’ which will cause chaos if we have another harsh winter.

04/08/2011

The London Borough of Merton is on the hunt for a contractor to carry out highways construction and repairs.

11/08/2011

The search has started for contractors to sign up to a highways repair and maintenance framework for nine local authorities.

03/11/2011

Keen interest in London's proposed new highways maintenance regime has prompted Transport for London to raise the expected work value to £2.6bn over eight years.

03/11/2011

Devon County Council is on the hunt for three contractors to handle its structural highways maintenance.

10/11/2011

Lincolnshire Councty Council is searching for civil engineering contractors to join a framework covering highways resurfacing, new roads and waterways works.

15/12/2011

The National Audit Office has warned that road maintenance budget cuts will cost the country more than they save.

12/01/2012

Swansea City and Country Council has started the hunt for a partner to handle highways maintenance over the next four years.

19/01/2012

Department for Transport civil servants warned MPs this week that standards would be affected by road maintenance spending cuts.

19/01/2012

Swansea City and County Council has started the hunt for a partner to handle highways maintenance over the next four years.

26/01/2012

Staffordshire council is pumping an extra £20m into highways maintenance.

09/02/2012

Midlands transport authority Centro is inviting firms to bid for minor highways and bridge work four-year term contracts.

16/02/2012

Councils across Yorkshire are facing a £700m bill to repair the crumbling road network.

01/03/2012

Nottinghamshire County Council is looking for a highways maintenance contractor to carry-out £165m worth of repair work across the region.

08/03/2012

The search has started to find a contractor to deliver a series of road improvements bundled up into the Western Gateway Infrastructure Scheme.

15/03/2012

Spending watchdogs on the Public Accounts Committee have attacked highways maintenance budget cuts as “counter-productive.”

15/03/2012

Dudley Metropolitan Council has signed up three highways surfacing contractors for improvement programmes this year.

18/04/2012

Telford & Wrekin Council is to invest at least £18m over the next three years to improve its existing road infrastructure.

08/05/2012

Halton and Warrington borough councils are teaming-up in a joint procurement race for a £70m highways maintenance contract.

10/05/2012

Norfolk County Council is set to approve an extra £500,000 for highways maintenance this year following costs cuts in other departments at the authority.

14/05/2012

Welsh Councils will be allowed to borrow £60m to fund road repairs this year.

28/06/2012

A £326,000 maintenance programme along the A627(M) between Rochdale and Oldham in Greater Manchester will get underway next week.

16/07/2012

Lincolnshire County Council has earmarked funds worth £2.6m for essential highways repairs.

26/07/2012

Eleven civil engineering contractors have won places on the main element of Lincolnshire County Council’s £60m highways four-year framework.

15/08/2012

Recent torrential rain and flooding have left local councils with a £200 million repair bill for roads, bridges and pavements which could eat into their winter maintenance cash.

21/09/2012

An independent report into the maintenance of Scotland’s trunk roads and motorways has found that operating companies are continuing to maintain their strong performance levels.

18/12/2012

Councils can plan how to spend their share of a £215m fund for local road maintenance after funding allocations were published by Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin.

31/01/2013

Badly maintained local roads are costing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) £5 billion a year.

10/07/2013

A five-year highways maintenance deal worth up to £50 million is up for grabs in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

18/09/2013

Peterborough City Council has signed a 10-year contract with Skanska for the provision of highway maintenance services.

23/09/2013

The Highways Maintenance Efficiency Programme (HMEP) has launched a new roads maintenance tool kit.

14/10/2013

Local councils are calling for a huge rise in road maintenance spending after analysis showed that the average motorist is paying more than £1,000 a year to the Treasury in charges and taxes.

09/12/2013

The Highways Maintenance Efficiency Programme (HMEP) wants local authorities to use its LEAN toolkit in an effort to improve the condition and upkeep of England’s roads. 

09/02/2012

Ringway and North Midlands Construction are among a list of firms selected to carry out  highways and construction work for

16/02/2012

Staffordshire County Council will spend £750,000 upgrading a stretch of the A34 as the first scheme in a £20m increased funding package for maintenance work.

17/02/2014

Liverpool City Council is set to invest £80 million over the next eight years in an effort to improve the condition of the city’s highways network.

17/02/2014

A contribution of at least £5 million is needed to avert a crisis on the roads of North Yorkshire.

27/02/2014

The president of the Institute of Highway Engineers (IHE) has responded to the government’s call for action to the highways supply chain.

12/03/2014

Buckinghamshire County Council has outlined 43 schemes that will be treated as part of its ‘We’re Working on it’ road treatment programme.

23/04/2014

Balfour Beatty has secured its third regional technology maintenance contract (RTMC) from the Highways Agency.

28/04/2014

Ringway has started work on a seven year highways contract for Milton Keynes Council.

16/10/2014

Highways maintenance software developer Keysoft Solutions has warned that patching up potholes is bad news for Britain’s roads.

21/11/2014

Road maintenance funding is inadequate to meet the demands of rising traffic levels, according to the Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA).

25/02/2015

Local authorities will award more than 80 term maintenance contracts during 2015 for highways maintenance, according to a report carried out by BDS Marketing.

18/03/2015

A shift from reactive to proactive maintenance has helped reduce the number of potholes in Leicestershire.

24/03/2015

Twenty eight councils across England will receive a share of £275 million for major local roads maintenance after winning government funding.

30/03/2015

Scotland’s roads authorities are considering new ways of delivering maintenance.

29/05/2015

A maintenance project that will see a section of the A12 near Ipswich upgraded is now expected to be complete by the end of June.

09/06/2015

The Road Safety Markings Association (RSMA) will undertake an urgent 10-day review of the quality of road markings across Northern Ireland after the country saw a 30% increase in road deaths last year.

22/02/2016

TRL (the Transport Research Laboratory), is offering advice to local authorities and private finance initiatives (PFIs) to help them adopt best practice for highway appraisal and maintenance.

06/06/2016

More than 300 service operatives and engineers responsible for installing and repairing traffic equipment across the country have been equipped by Siemens with new bespoke tablet devices.

08/06/2016

A new US-manufactured advanced chipper spreader is being used by Eurovia Specialist Treatments (EST) on UK roads.

28/06/2016

Stoke-on-Trent City Council is embarking on a multi-million pound resurfacing and patching campaign.

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.

19/12/2016

An independent investigation using Freedom of Information requests says it can reveal the worst roads in Britain to drive on.

13/01/2017

The Department for Transport (DfT) has allocated £1.2 billion of local roads funding to councils across England.

30/01/2017

Lincolnshire firm Specialist Surfacing will carry out road maintenance across four Humber ports in Hull, Goole, Grimsby and Immingham.

02/02/2017

A 1.2 km resurfacing scheme in the Northern Irish town of Enniskillen is to begin at a cost of £100,000.

22/02/2017

Hanson Contracting has re-secured its strategic partnership contract with Dorset Highways for maintenance of the county’s road network in a deal worth more than £100m.

22/02/2017

Highways England’s chief executive Jim O’Sullivan has revealed the latest route strategy documents for the strategic road network are to be published next month with a network report due in the autumn.

07/03/2017

A councillor in Glasgow is warning that the city's Clyde Tunnel will not last ten years if it does not get funding to give it "open heart surgery".

10/03/2017

More than 3,000 council-maintained road bridges in Great Britain are substandard, according to research by the RAC Foundation.

17/03/2017

New guidance on managing highways liability risk has been released by the Institute of Highway Engineers (IHE) - titled Well Managed Highway Liability Risk - providing a comprehensive framework for authorities across the UK.