The contractor company Kier has been appointed to a fifteen month long highways services contract in the city of Birmingham on behalf of Birmingham Highways Ltd, running from the 1st April 2020 to the 29th June 2021.
Specifically, this highways services contract will cover the managements of traffic operations, planned and reactive maintenance, inspections, and winter servicing over a total road surface area of 2,500km as well as 5,000km of pedestrian pathways, 846 structures, three tunnels, 94,000 street lighting columns, 76,000 highway trees, and the city’s traffic control system.
The Kier Acting Group Managing Director for Highways, Joe Incutti stated “We are delighted to be appointed to the Birmingham Highways contract and have a wealth of experience in successfully designing and maintaining local authority roads. We are a trusted supplier and already operate in the midlands delivering maintenance to one of the most complex and busy highway networks in the UK, including Spaghetti Junction, which carries 60,000 vehicles each day.
“We are looking forward to working alongside Birmingham City Council and Birmingham Highways Ltd on this contract to keep roads in Birmingham safe and reliable.”
The Chief Executive of BHL, Natasha Rouse commented: “We look forward to working with Kier. The company has put together a robust offer that demonstrates its ability to provide a good quality of service and mobilise quickly and efficiently. We aim to achieve a seamless transition to our new provider while continuing to service the city’s highways network.”
The Cabinet Member for Transport and Environment at Birmingham City Council, Councillor Waseem Zaffar added: “I am pleased that Kier has put a compelling and competitive bid to us to maintain the city’s highways. Its reputation as a leading national roads operator should give welcomed assurance to the people of Birmingham that we have put the safe and efficient servicing of our streets at the heart of this process.”
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