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01/11/2013
Carillion Scoops £70m UK Highways Contract
Carillion had been awarded a £70 million contract to transform another section of the M6 into a smart motorway.
The contract, together with other contracts for maintenance and improvement projects, brings the total value of highway contracts won by Carillion in recent weeks to some £180 million.
The Highways Agency has awarded Carillion the £70 million contract to transform a further section of the M6 in the West Midlands, between Junctions 10A and 13, into a smart motorway.
Smart motorways use a range of innovative technologies, combined with new operating procedures to control traffic flow actively. This includes variable mandatory speed limits and opening up the hard shoulder to traffic to reduce congestion and improve journey times and safety.
Carillion is one of the Highways Agency's four delivery partners for the smart motorway national framework and this latest award recognises Carillion's position as a leading provider of these services and follows the successful delivery of three previous phases of the smart motorway programme around Birmingham.
Advanced enabling works started in September 2013 and the main contract works will follow immediately, with completion scheduled for Spring 2015.
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council has selected a Carillion Joint Venture as the preferred bidder to design and build the A6 Manchester Airport Relief Road, which is expected to have a construction value of around £100 million of which Carillion's share will be some £50 million.
This Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) contract, which includes the construction of a 10 kilometre dual two-lane carriageway with four road and rail bridges linking the A6 at Hazel Grove to Manchester Airport, is expected to start on site early in 2015 and be completed within two years.
In addition, Carillion has been awarded a 12-month ECI contract for Northumberland County Council to build the £25m Morpeth Northern Bypass on which construction is expected to start in January 2015, a £16 million, 20-month contract for Leeds City Council for maintenance of the A58 Woodhouse Tunnel, on which construction is expected to start in November 2013, a £12 million, 18-month contract for Sheffield City Council to build the Tinsley Link section of the Bus Rapid Transit North scheme and an £8 million, 17-month contract for the Highways Agency to improve the Elkesley Junction on the A1 in Nottinghamshire.
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The contract, together with other contracts for maintenance and improvement projects, brings the total value of highway contracts won by Carillion in recent weeks to some £180 million.
The Highways Agency has awarded Carillion the £70 million contract to transform a further section of the M6 in the West Midlands, between Junctions 10A and 13, into a smart motorway.
Smart motorways use a range of innovative technologies, combined with new operating procedures to control traffic flow actively. This includes variable mandatory speed limits and opening up the hard shoulder to traffic to reduce congestion and improve journey times and safety.
Carillion is one of the Highways Agency's four delivery partners for the smart motorway national framework and this latest award recognises Carillion's position as a leading provider of these services and follows the successful delivery of three previous phases of the smart motorway programme around Birmingham.
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Advanced enabling works started in September 2013 and the main contract works will follow immediately, with completion scheduled for Spring 2015.
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council has selected a Carillion Joint Venture as the preferred bidder to design and build the A6 Manchester Airport Relief Road, which is expected to have a construction value of around £100 million of which Carillion's share will be some £50 million.
This Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) contract, which includes the construction of a 10 kilometre dual two-lane carriageway with four road and rail bridges linking the A6 at Hazel Grove to Manchester Airport, is expected to start on site early in 2015 and be completed within two years.
In addition, Carillion has been awarded a 12-month ECI contract for Northumberland County Council to build the £25m Morpeth Northern Bypass on which construction is expected to start in January 2015, a £16 million, 20-month contract for Leeds City Council for maintenance of the A58 Woodhouse Tunnel, on which construction is expected to start in November 2013, a £12 million, 18-month contract for Sheffield City Council to build the Tinsley Link section of the Bus Rapid Transit North scheme and an £8 million, 17-month contract for the Highways Agency to improve the Elkesley Junction on the A1 in Nottinghamshire.
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