Dynniq to deliver technology on England’s South West motorways

Highways England has awarded Dynniq a major construction deal in South West England under a framework contract. Dynniq picked up the South West region four-year Construction Work Framework Lot 6 (Technology). Highways England’s South West region comprises Areas 1 and 2 - the largest highways are in England covering 11% of the strategic road, around 370km running between the cities of Cheltenham and Penzance.
July 19, 2017 Read time: 1 min
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Highways England has awarded Dynniq a major construction deal in South West England under a framework contract.
8633 Dynniq picked up the South West region four-year Construction Work Framework Lot 6 (Technology).

8100 Highways England’s South West region comprises Areas 1 and 2 - the largest highways are in England covering 11% of the strategic road, around 370km running between the cities of Cheltenham and Penzance.

The framework is structured to enable the key delivery partners, across 12 lots, to work together in developing schemes, providing infrastructure and commissioning technology.

Richard Bevins, operations director at Dynniq, said that the technology being installed covers message signs, incident detection, CCTV, trunk road traffic signals, weather systems, emergency telephones, communications and power.

The Dynniq team will construct sites, chambers and ducting; install and test the technology; handover to maintenance; and operate with a principal contractor team structure.

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