£3bn contract in the pipeline at Essex23/06/2025 Essex County Council is exploring options for road maintenance after its current contract concludes in 2027, with future partnerships expected to be valued up to £3bn. |
Essex awards £27m link road job to Octavius22/08/2024 Octavius has been awarded the first phase of the new A1331 near Colchester to the east of the University of Essex, having carried out earlier design work on the scheme. |
Essex plans to bring more maintenance oversight in-house15/03/2024 Essex County Council is planning to bring more highways maintenance in-house when procurement for a new contract starts next year. |
Essex starts search for the future of highways20/06/2023 Essex County Council has begun the process of finding a new highways maintenance contractor, including a possible redesign of its highways service. |
Essex puts in the hard graph01/09/2022 Ringway Jacobs and Essex County Council are trialling a hot rolled asphalt (HRA) containing graphene on a section of road in Chelmsford. |
£76m new M11 junction opens early16/06/2022 Civil engineering firm GRAHAM has completed work on one of the biggest highways infrastructure projects in Essex. |
GRAHAM gets £40m job on new Harlow junction26/02/2020 GRAHAM has been appointed as main contractor to deliver the new M11 Junction 7A at Harlow. |
Another one bites the dust: Chelmsford flyover to come down05/02/2020 Essex County Council will begin work to dismantle a flyover in Chelmsford city centre on Monday. |
Essex launches crackdown on roadworker abuse11/04/2019 Essex County Council has launched a crackdown on roadworker abuse, after seeing almost daily incidents recorded by its highways service Essex Highways -run in partnership with Ringway Jacobs. |
Eurovia win £5m 'challenging' Colchester project29/05/2018 Eurovia Contracting has won a £5m design and build scheme aiming to tackle congestion on one of Colchester’s busiest through roads. |
Pioneer counties join forces to trial smart city technology06/03/2018 Two county councils have announced that they are working together to pilot smart city services in partnership with a Cambridge-based technology firm. |
Funding secured for new M11 junction17/01/2017 A new £45 million junction on the M11 near Harlow will be jointly funded by the Department for Transport and Essex County Council. |
Essex CC trialling new road markings26/07/2016 Trials of new longer-lasting road markings could save taxpayers thousands of pounds, according to Essex County Council. |
£50m to be spent on improving Colchester’s roads25/05/2016 Essex County Council is investing £50 million on improving Colchester’s infrastructure – including road, cycle and bus schemes. |
Council push for Lower Thames Crossing decision16/03/2016 Essex County Council want the Secretary of State for Transport to make a decision on the new Lower Thames Crossing as soon as possible after public consultation on its proposed route options closes on 24 March. |
Lower Thames Crossing events attract thousands of visitors24/02/2016 More than 8,000 people have attended 16 public information events on proposals for a new multi-billion pound road link across the River Thames between Essex and Kent. |
Essex CC to spend £300m on roads over next three years11/02/2016 Essex County Council has committed to a £300 million programme of investment in its road network over the next three years. |
Three million square metres of road repairs completed20/08/2015 Highways engineers in Essex laid the three millionth square metre of surface dressing on Monday (17 August), as part of the largest road improvement programme of its kind ever undertaken in the county. |
Council receives £2.45m for Canvey road blunders21/01/2015 Essex County Council has reached a £2.45 million settlement with Mouchel after design blunders caused delays to a major road project in Canvey. |
700 roads to be fixed by Essex County Council07/08/2014 Essex County Council has announced that it will spend £17.5 million on fixing 700 local roads. |
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