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Our vision is to improve customers' experience through roadworks by implementing the highest safe speed while maintaining the safety of our roadworkers and users. Speed limits help manage risk around roadworks and are often an essential part of the temporary traffic management to ensure the safety of road users. Various factors may determine whether a speed restriction is required, including: the work activity duration of the work safety zones This then supports design of the temporary traf…

We're repairing and maintaining a stretch of the A11 concrete road surface in both directions between Red Lodge and Fiveways Roundabout at Barton Mills, West Suffolk. Start date January 2025 End date February 2025 Cost £1.26 million Latest updates Overview Documents Latest updates 28 January 2025 New road closure dates, January to February 2025 We started work on the southbound carriageway as planned on Wednesday 8 January 2025. We're replacing concrete bays and repairing potholes and…

Find out about our £2m legacy fund open to all non-for-profit groups in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire Social Value Fund  Available for all not-for-profit groups and organisations, the £1.7 million Social Value Fund (with grants between £15,000 and £200,000) is designed to maximise the wider benefits of the scheme in the local area.  The fund is open to any project that delivers positive value, benefits and a lasting legacy for local people, the community, the environment, or the economy. We…

This page highlights social enterprises which provide goods and/or services to National Highways, our supply chain and other Government departments. Supplier categories Cleaning and hygiene products Construction, engineering, assembly and manufacturing Design, video and photography Environmental Event management and venue hire Food, beverage and catering Furniture Landscaping Printing, document management solutions Professional services, consultancy and training Signage Waste manage…

Following the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s announcement to the House of Parliament on 29 July 2024, the A27 Arundel Bypass will not be taken forward. Start date Cancelled End date N/A Cost N/A Latest updates Overview Documents Latest updates 16 January 2025 Withdrawal of notification of development and route protection order We have withdrawn the notification of development along with the route protection order for this scheme. We had originally submitted these documents with West Sus…

Our 2035 strategy 8,000 traffic monitoring sites - 30 million vehicle counts per site per year 8,250 emergency roadside telephones - 39,000 calls handled annually 1,900 miles of road with fibre optic cable - 30 billion vehicle miles supported annually 10 traffic management centres - empowering 350 control room operators 4,000 CCTV cameras - 16 million camera switches monthly 325 weather monitoring sites informing 550 gritters Building the strategy Technology underpins all the work …

Unearthed during an upgrade of the A47 in Cambridgeshire, the find features in series 12 of BBC documentary, 'Digging for Britain'. Share this article Presented by Professor Alice Roberts, the BBC documentary Digging for Britain started its twelfth series on January 7 2025. Episode 1 featured a massive hand carved stone coffin, undisturbed since its burial in Roman times over 1,500 years ago. Experts from Headland Archaeology found it in a small Roman roadside cemetery, discovered during our…

Published 24 Jan 2024 The first-ever 3D-printed concrete headwall is being trialled as part of the construction process on our A30 Chiverton to Carland Cross upgrade in Cornwall Share this article Headwall structures are traditionally made from precast concrete, utilising extensive steel reinforcement and limited in their shape, but the innovative 3D printed curved headwall, which requires no steelwork, was installed last month by Costain as a trial on one of the dualling project’s under-roa…

Achieving our vision of a connected country with safer, smoother and more reliable journeys for our customers, relies on successful outcomes from us and our supply chain partners. Roads Academy is a joint initiative with the roads industry to develop current and future leaders and solve sectoral challenges. New intake dates for Aspiring Leaders and Strategic Leaders programmes The next intake for Aspiring Leaders is 20 October 2025 and Strategic Leaders is 22 October 2025. For future intake d…

Published 24 Jan 2024 Share this article A groundbreaking flameless combustion system which allows green off-grid electric car charging has been created by an entrant in a multi-million-pound competition funded by National Highways. The technology has been developed by London-based climate tech company IPG and features a patented flameless combustion process that produces the chemical reaction of combustion without the flame from any renewable fuel. The company was one of 13 successful entr…