Luton Council to trial smart road surface data collection09/06/2025 Luton Council and VolkerHighways are trialling Asphalt-IQ to capture and visualise data on roads resurfaced and patching repairs across Luton. |
Volker wins West Sussex core services deal14/01/2025 VolkerHighways has won a core services maintenance contract with West Sussex County Council, set to begin on 1 April this year and last for seven years, with a possible extension of seven further years. |
Gillingham's great wall saga comes to an end12/11/2024 A long-running saga over a crumbling wall has been brought to an end and its safety risk, first identified in 2009, has finally been put to rest. |
BANES council extends VolkerHighways deal25/03/2024 Bath and North East Somerset Council (BANES) has extended its highways and street lighting maintenance contracts with VolkerHighways until 2029. |
VolkerHighways wins £1m TM deal on A1326/07/2023 VolkerHighways has secured a £1m one-year 'road and tunnel network incident support unit' contract for traffic management along part of the A13. |
Volker cleans up in Bath with 'road-by-road' strategy26/07/2023 VolkerHighways has fixed double the number of potholes in Bath and North East Somerset as during the whole of 2022, including using an ‘ultra eco-friendly’ thermal road repair system. |
Luton invests to save with 'Project Pothole'20/06/2023 Luton Borough Council is to ramp up spending on potholes as part of what it described as its 'most ambitious programme of highway works', with a strong emphasis on prevention. |
Volker wins £5m Oxon LED replacement deal31/01/2023 VolkerHighways has started work on awarded a Traffic Route LED and Column Replacement contract with Oxfordshire County Council worth £5m. |
Bath keeps it thermal with ‘eco-friendly’ repairs07/09/2022 VolkerHighways and Bath and North East Somerset (BANES) Council have invested in an ‘ultra eco-friendly’ thermal road repair system. |
Volker takes Bath streets back to the past18/08/2022 VolkerHighways has carried out public realm improvement works on two historic streets in the centre of Bath, resurfacing the carriageways and footways with high-quality natural stone. |
Levelling up Tin Pan Alley11/07/2022 VolkerHighways recently completed what it called a ‘challenging’ resurfacing project in Central London. |
Volker 'to halve carbon' on resurfacing job05/07/2022 VolkerHighways has said it is using a carbon-saving alternative to traditional resurfacing methods for the first time on a project in Somerset. |
West Berks highways get a shot in the arm28/06/2022 VolkerHighways has used WJ Group’s retexturing expertise to raise skid resistance levels across a local council’s area through an innovative shot blast surface retexturing system, while cutting the carbon emissions needed. |
Infrared technology to help make repairs more sustainable12/01/2022 VolkerHighways and the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead have trialled the use of 'infrared technology' for repairing defects in pavements and roads. |
VolkerHighways goes new school with £3m road improvements07/10/2020 VolkerHighways has begun a £3m package of improvements works along the A339 in Newbury, West Berkshire. |
Medway hands Volker £9m LED lighting deal28/08/2020 VolkerHighways has been awarded a street lighting contract with Medway Council, worth over £9m, that will see thousands of energy efficient lights installed. |
VolkerHighways wins £1m LEDs contract with Dover20/11/2019 VolkerHighways has been awarded a street lighting contract with Dover District Council, worth around £1m. |
Volker wins in Wokingham04/10/2018 Wokingham Borough Council has awarded a maintenance and construction contract to VolkerHighways worth £68m for the first seven years. |
JV leaves London’s maintenance framework after drop in work06/03/2018 Transport for London's (TfL) road maintenance framework - the London Highways Alliance Contract (LoHAC) - has run into further trouble after a key joint venture pulled out. |
Volker wins Luton highways maintenance deal25/01/2017 Luton Borough Council has awarded a highway maintenance contract that could be worth £200 million over 15 years to VolkerHighways. |
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