Skanska has won a new 10-year highways maintenance contract with Cambridgeshire County Council.

The deal is worth £32 million a year and will run from 01 July to 30 June 2027. The contract also has an option to extend for a further five years.

Skanska was appointed to the original contract, which involved maintaining 1,700 miles of carriageway, 1,400 miles of footways and cycleways and 1,276 structures.

Overall, the company will provide a range of highways maintenance services which includes surfacing and surface treatment works and patching; drainage and gully maintenance; sign maintenance; grass and vegetation cutting; emergency response and winter service; street lighting; gully cleansing and drainage jetting; safety inspection repairs; kerbing and paving works; footway construction and resurfacing and patch repairs to carriageway and footways.

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The team also provides a range of design, construction and supervision services to deliver major infrastructure improvements that covers junction improvements, cycle ways, link roads, safety improvements, bridge strengthening and building new structures.

Simon White, Operations Director at Skanska, said: "Over the term of this contract the team has worked hard to deliver a strong performance and bring innovations to Cambridgeshire that have saved £14m, like our award-winning dragon patcher.

"Our purpose is 'we build for a better society' and an example of how the team has embedded this into the contract is working with the local communities to help improve the areas that surround where they work. Last year, they helped a local college by repairing the grounds and parking areas and made a toddler's dream come true by arranging for him to visit one of our construction sites, which he walked past on his way to school each day."

(LM)