Highways
Highway network operators face multiple competing priorities, including maintenance to keep roads safe for users and investment to enhance capacity and increase connectivity between communities.
Population growth, urbanisation and changing travel habits are placing strain on our road networks. With higher temperatures and more intense storms becoming more frequent, the resilience of our road infrastructure is under extreme pressure.
A systematic approach to operating and managing assets is essential to tackle this, making full use of existing and emerging digital technology. Enhancing and renewing the network should be done in a collaborative environment, gaining public and stakeholder support by maximising social, environmental and economic value while delivering with certainty of schedule and cost.
What can we do for you?
We work with policymakers, government agencies, road agencies and authorities, statutory and regulatory bodies, private owners and operators, and other stakeholder groups to plan, design and deliver a wide range of highways projects and programmes.
We can help you:
Explore a collaborative and innovative approach
We create solutions that fit the specific needs and context of the most complex challenges, deploying innovation and a breadth of specialist expertise to develop projects that work for all road users.
Implement data driven asset management
We can help make sense of data to prioritise the necessary interventions and focus investment where it is most needed across the road network.
Cut carbon
From strategic advice to on-the-ground know-how, we are market leaders in reducing carbon in highways projects. We are also co-authors of PAS 2080, the international specification for managing infrastructure carbon.
Deliver excellent value
We retain a focus on value for money at every stage of a project, with significant expertise in contractual assurance, schedule certainty and risk mitigation, while still delivering transformative client outcomes.
North Union Street Transformation, New York, USA. The city of Olean set out to convert the four-lane car-oriented commercial district of North Union Street to a two-lane ‘complete street’ that would revitalise the neighbourhood.
Smart highway design for efficient transportation
We have a multidisciplinary skill set and work across the entire lifecycle of highways projects. We use our broad technical expertise, analytical thinking and collaborative problem solving approach to give you an end-to-end service and deliver well designed, efficient and sustainable roads and assets.
Our experience
Our heritage in the highways sector stretches over a century: we were involved in major UK projects such as the Tyne Bridge in the 1920s. Today, we work on complex projects in North America, Australasia, the Middle East and Asia as well as UK and Europe.
Some highlights of our recent work include:
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A303, Somerset, UKAs part of a joint venture with Sweco, we provided design services to help develop this new 5km section of dual carriageway to alleviate congestion between Sparkford and Podimore on this trunk road in Somerset. We were involved in this nationally significant infrastructure project from options identification and assessment through to development consent order submission and examination.
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Area 10 asset support, UKIn joint venture with Balfour Beatty and on behalf of Highways England, we helped operate 570km of strategic road network covering Merseyside, Cheshire, Lancashire and Greater Manchester. Under a contract that ran between 2012 and 2019, we carried out asset management, renewals and network enhancement – including 24/7 incident response – to ensure safe operation.
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Lower Thames Crossing, UKWe’re part of a joint venture working for National Highways to deliver this new 23km road and tunnel linking Essex and Kent which is planned to relieve pressure on the M25 and Dartford Crossing; we’re working with Skanska on designing and building the Kent section of the project south of the River Thames.
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National Highways net zero plan, UKAs part of a consortium of partners we helped National Highways form a plan to achieve net zero by 2050, encompassing corporate, supply chain and road user emissions, and also to achieve accreditation to PAS 2080, the international standard for the management of infrastructure carbon. National Highways was the first highways owner-operator in the world to achieve this standard.
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North-South Corridor, SingaporeOur involvement in this major road tunnel in Singapore – which connects the north and south of Singapore beneath the city centre – dates back to the original feasibility study in 2008. We’re now providing design services to the consortium of contractors delivering the project, including detailed design for five of the ten project sections.
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North Union Street Transformation, New York, USAThe city of Olean set out to convert the four-lane car-oriented commercial district of North Union Street to a two-lane ‘complete street’ that would revitalise the neighbourhood. Our design encourages pedestrian and bicycle use, calms traffic, and spurs economic activity.
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Rome-Cartersville development corridor, Georgia, USAWe’re acting as design consultant to the Georgia Department of Transportation in developing the plans for this four-lane, 9km road linking the US411 and I-75 highways, with construction due to start in 2026.
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Torrens Road to River Torrens, Adelaide, AustraliaWorking closely with the South Australian Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure, we provided design services for this complex 4km section of motorway that provides a vital link in the North-South Corridor, one of Adelaide’s primary road transport routes.
Traffic Management
Traffic Management is a monitoring and control system that improves traffic managers’ ability to respond to incidents and changing road conditions, improving safety and reducing congestion.
