Kier Highways has been awarded a six-month extension from Birmingham Highways Ltd (BHL) on its Birmingham Interim Services Contract (ISC). The extension will run until 30 December 2021.

The contract, which Kier was appointed to in April 2020, was initially due to run for 15 months (with the option to extend) and it includes the city’s traffic operations, planned and reactive maintenance, inspections and winter servicing. BHL have exercised their right to trigger the first extension option available under the contract and will consider further extension in the future.

Work is already underway to procure surveys, extend sub-contracts, identify programmes of work and develop a plan for the delivery of services during the extended period. This plan will include aspects of programmed maintenance, including the continuation of street lighting replacement, surfacing works and capital investment.

Since the start of the contract, 288,533 m² of carriageways and nearly 82,476 m² of footways have been repaired. This was in addition to ongoing management activities, which saw the team inspect 70,792km of roads, as well as installing 1387 new LED street lights and responding to 15,489 customer enquiries.