Balfour Beatty wins £245m Warwickshire highways contract

Infrastructure group Balfour Beatty has been awarded a seven-year, £245m Warwickshire highways maintenance contract.

Balfour Beatty Living Places will work in partnership with Coventry City Council, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council and Warwickshire County Council and the contract comes with an option to extend for a further three years.

Balfour, which has been delivering highways maintenance services across Warwickshire for the last five years , said the new award “recognises the value derived from the group's excellent service and the greatly improved IT systems provided”.

Group chief executive Leo Quinn said: “This contract award is a real endorsement of the excellent service we have provided across Warwickshire since 2011 and gives us the opportunity to build upon our successes.”

Last week, Balfour’s Living Places division secured a £55m, two-year extension to its West Sussex highways works contract.