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Balfour Beatty in 10-year extension to Exeter-Bere Regis road deal

A Balfour Beatty joint venture with South West Highways has been awarded a €55 million 10-year extension to its contract for operations and maintenance on the 102km A30/A35 main Exeter to Bere Regis road. The contract is on behalf of Connect Roads for ultimate customer Highways England, the newly named government roads agency. The joint venture – SWHBBIS - was appointed as the operations and maintenance contractor for this stretch of the trunk road in 1996. In 2006, the joint venture was re-appointed
May 8, 2015 Read time: 2 mins
A 1146 Balfour Beatty joint venture with South West Highways has been awarded a €55 million 10-year extension to its contract for operations and maintenance on the 102km A30/A35 main Exeter to Bere Regis road.

The contract is on behalf of Connect Roads for ultimate customer Highways England, the newly named government roads agency.

The joint venture – SWHBBIS - was appointed as the operations and maintenance contractor for this stretch of the trunk road in 1996. In 2006, the joint venture was re-appointed to deliver a contract with more responsibilities.

The joint venture has continued to build a strong relationship with Connect Roads, demonstrating added value and cost efficiency in its core activities of emergency response, winter and routine maintenance, and the delivery of significant life-cycle works including resurfacing over 400,000m2 of the trunk road.
 
David May, SWHBBIS project manager, said the site team of 20 people worked hard to ensure the contract has been a success up to now for the estimated 25,000 daily road users.

The contract extension will start October 1, 2016, and run to September 30, 2026.

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