Carillion speeds up with M6 contract win
Construction services giant Carillion has won a £104.9m contract to work on the M6 in Birmingham.
The Wolverhampton-based company will transform the area between junctions five and eight of the motorway into a managed motorway.
Carillion is one of the Highways Agency's four delivery partners for the managed motorway national framework. The company previously worked on two phases of the managed motorway programme around Birmingham.
Advance works for the contract are expected to start at the end of January 2012 and the main works by June 2012.
Carillion's chief executive Richard Howson said: "We are delighted to have been chosen to work with the Highways Agency as its delivery partner for this latest managed motorway contract, which further reinforces Carillion's position as one of the leading suppliers for the agency's managed motorway programme."
The managed motorways scheme use a range of technologies and operating procedures to actively control traffic flow. This includes variable mandatory speed limits and opening up the hard shoulder to traffic to reduce congestion and improve journey times and safety.
