Supporting the safe transportation of people through the delivery of safer, greener highways.

Our highways division is the UK’s number one, and largest highway maintenance contractor for local roads, we manage over 50,000 kms of roads and over 350,000 streetlights, plus have a strong legacy of building, maintaining and operating highways partnerships with clients and supply chain partners.

Highways maintenance  

Our extensive experience, proven ways of working and capability allow us to deliver safer, greener highways for road users and value for asset owners.

We offer a wide highways maintenance service, including planned and reactive maintenance, highway improvement schemes, cyclical activity including drainage, green infrastructure and winter maintenance, 24/7 emergency response and design and building maintenance.

As the first highways contractor to achieve PAS2080 and ISO14064 standards for our approach to carbon management, we use the latest carbon reducing materials and promote biodiversity gains.

We focus on value through innovative, efficient practices and sharing learnings across the regions we operate, leveraging digital capability to drive our clients' outcomes.

Street lighting

As a major supplier of highway electrical services, we maintain and design over 350,000 street lighting assets and have specialist electrical vehicle charging installation capability.

Our expertise in asset management and central management systems supports the efficient use of highways electrical assets. Our approach to low energy, cost-efficient lighting benefits the environment and provides safer streets for the public.

With a specialist in-house lighting design team, we have experience in new installations for architectural regeneration and improvement purposes.

Our services include major construction projects, highway lighting and electrical maintenance contracts, design and feasibility studies, environmental impact assessments, condition survey reports (structural and electrical), installation and maintenance and energy management.  

Civils projects
 
We deliver specialist civil engineering for the private and public sectors across the UK, building strong relationships based on a collaborative approach.

Our solutions provide carbon-efficient infrastructure and leave a positive legacy in the communities in which we work, with a focus on the environment and delivering social value across every project.

Examples of our civils projects portfolio includes Early Contractor Involvement (ECI), design and build, public realm, highways improvements, infrastructure including nuclear, structures refurbishment and strengthening, coastal / marine and new structures. We work across both the local roads and strategic road network.