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Lean in National Highways Road Investment Strategy Period 2 2020-2025 Foreword The impact of the National Highways Lean programme can truly be seen as industry changing. I’m proud to say that practices such as Collaborative Planning, Lean Improvement interventions and Visual Management have become standard practice on our Major Project schemes and across our maintenance and operations programmes, helping to save time, reduce costs, minimise defects, improve health and safety and drive customer s…

Lean in National Highways Road Investment Strategy Period 2 2020-2025 Foreword The impact of the National Highways Lean programme can truly be seen as industry changing. I’m proud to say that practices such as Collaborative Planning, Lean Improvement interventions and Visual Management have become standard practice on our Major Project schemes and across our maintenance and operations programmes, helping to save time, reduce costs, minimise defects, improve health and safety and drive customer s…

Smart motorways evidence stocktake - M6 and M1 safety reviews

Bat boxes, 300m of dead hedging and supplementary feeding and planting are among the innovative measures National Highways is taking to help support a population of nine species of bats that have made their home in Somerset.

An Introduction to the Lean Visual Management Construction Foreword Highways England has three imperatives : Safety - our aim is that no one should be harmed when travelling or working on the strategic road network. We care about each other, our suppliers, our customers and communities. Customer Service – improving how what we do impacts those that use the roads. Delivering the Road Investment Strategy – on time and efficiently. Lean principles provide a foundation to help enable all of these pr…

M1 junction 19 improvement project Three-year post-opening project evaluation This document has been prepared by National Highways with assistance from its consultants (where employed). The document and its accompanying data remain the property of National Highways. While all reasonable care has been taken in the preparation of this document, it cannot be guaranteed that it is free of every potential error. In the absence of formal contractual agreement to the contrary, neither National Highways…

2Strategic Design Panel Progress report Contents Foreword 6 Executive summary 10 1. The Panel 13 2. Making progress 17 3. Design vision and principles 22 4. Design review 25 5. Design advice 26 6. Design evaluation 28 7. Key recommendations and forward planning 30 Appendix A – Maintaining an understanding of wider 32 Highways England work and external best practice Cover M5 Devon 3 A120 Essex Foreword There has been good progress over the past year by The Panel have continued to examine and chal…

Dart Charge (Dartford ‘Free- Flow’ Charging) Seven-year post-opening project evaluation This document has been prepared by National Highways with assistance from its consultants (where employed). The document and its accompanying data remain the property of National Highways. While all reasonable care has been taken in the preparation of this document, it cannot be guaranteed that it is free of every potential error. In the absence of formal contractual agreement to the contrary, neither Nationa…

On the road to good design: Design review at National Highways Foreword As a leading national infrastructure provider, National Highways is committed to raising the design quality of our network. We set up a dedicated design panel and carry out independent reviews of key schemes and standards to help us achieve this. This is the first overview of design reviews undertaken between the end of 2017 and 2021 for a range of schemes and standards. It sets out the process and benefits of design review …

News release trailing safety work along the A66, A590 and A585 in Cumbria and Lancashire