maintenance

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.

10/03/2017

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

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".

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.

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.

30/01/2017

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

13/01/2017

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

19/12/2016

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

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.

28/06/2016

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

08/06/2016

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

30/03/2015

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

24/03/2015

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

18/03/2015

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

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.