Carillion wins ‘smart motorway’ contract worth £70m
WOLVERHAMPTON construction and support services firm Carillion has been awarded a £70m contract to improve a section of the M6 in the West Midlands.
The Highways Agency contract is to transform a section of the M6 between Junctions 10A and 13 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 £180m.
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 .
Advanced enabling works on the project started in September and the main contract works will follow immediately, with completion scheduled for Spring 2015.
Carillion has also won big contracts recently from Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council, which has selected a Carillion joint venture as the preferred bidder to design and build the A6 Manchester Airport Relief Road and from Northumberland County Council to build the £25m Morpeth Northern Bypass.
Carillion chief executive Richard Howson said: ”We are delighted with our continuing success in winning contracts in our target markets, in line with our strategy of focusing on larger contracts and on contracts for customers with whom we have built strong long-term relationships.
“I believe this success reflects our commitment to quality and reliability, together with our sector leading sustainability credentials, which are an increasingly important part of our offering to customers.”
