Costain has announced that it has been awarded a contract by Lancashire County Council (Lancashire) to construct the M6 - Heysham link road, worth approximately £100m to Costain.

The award follows on from a three-year Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) collaboration between Costain and Lancashire, which has seen the project become the first highway scheme to pass successfully through the new National Infrastructure Planning process.

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The project will involve a full reconfiguration of Junction 34 of the M6, 4.8km of dual carriageway, 4.5km of new slip-roads, and 12 major structures including a 200m-span crossing of the River Lune. When complete, it will connect Heysham and the Morecambe peninsula directly to the M6.

Work will commence in January 2014 and is expected to complete in 2017.

(CD/JP)