Amey cracks on with £2.7bn job in Brum
Support services group Amey starts its £2.7bn Birmingham highways project this week and says it will create 300 local jobs over the next year. The job - the UK’s largest ever PFI project - will see Amey upgrade and maintain the city’s infrastructure network for the next 25 years. It won the contract from Birmingham City Council and some 250 council employees will transfer to Amey to work on the project. Amey has also committed to tackling unemployment in the city by looking to recruit unemployed local people onto the contract and work on this has already begun. This includes recruiting five young people from the council’s futures job fund initiative to start work as aboricultural, streetlighting and road operatives. The council is hopeful Amey will be able to use local sub-contractors and supply chain partners using the new ‘finditinbirmingham’ website.
