Balfour Beatty Living Places has secured an eight-year, £176m from Buckinghamshire Council in the UK for the maintenance of highways assets across the county.
This contract comes with an option for extension for an additional four years.
The contract will commence from 1 April 2023.
Balfour Beatty Living Places will collaborate with the council to offer a resilient local road network by maintaining more than 5,000km of highways, carriageways, footpaths, and cycle routes.
Furthermore, Balfour Beatty Living Places will be responsible for providing winter maintenance services as well as the operation and maintenance of the county’s street lighting and important community assets, such as gullies and traffic signals.
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The company will leverage innovative solutions and materials, such as reused rubber asphalt when laying new road surfaces to cut down carbon emissions and waste, as well as deploy electric charging points at its depots to facilitate its electric vehicle fleet, in line with its sustainability strategy, “Building New Futures.”
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By GlobalDataFor continuous effective maintenance of highways assets across the county, Balfour Beatty Living Places will also set up an ‘Operational Efficiency Hub’, a data-driven hub to track all activities in real-time, monitor progress of works and capture data to boost efficiencies across the network.
Balfour Beatty Living Places managing director Steve Helliwell said: “The announcement builds on our longstanding expertise and commitment to providing best-in-class highways maintenance services, whilst offering customer-focused solutions in a collaborative partnership.
“Wherever we operate, we go above and beyond for our customers with an unrelenting focus on leaving a lasting positive legacy for the communities we serve; working with local supply chain partners whilst also creating numerous apprenticeship and graduate opportunities.”
Buckinghamshire Council’s cabinet member for transport and councillor Steven Broadbent said: “We are pleased that, after a rigorous selection process, Balfour Beatty Living Places will be working with Buckinghamshire Council to provide a new model of highways services that meets our aspirations for a faster and more responsive service to best meet the needs of residents and road users. With their impressive track record of managing contracts of this nature, we are keen to embrace their expertise and experience, whilst realising their delivery of innovation and quality onto our network.
“We know how important the condition of our roads and footpaths is for local residents and this new contract will allow us to map out a detailed strategic plan for the future. We are focused on channelling our resources into making lasting improvements, whilst at the same time standing by our commitment to cut our carbon emissions and take the lead in adopting new and innovative techniques that achieve value for money.”
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Image: The contract will commence from 1 April 2023. Credit: Benjamin Wiens from Pixabay.
