Kier Highways wins £160m Highways England Area 4 contract

Kier Highways has bolstered its portfolio of contracts with Highways England and been awarded the £160m Area 4 maintenance and response contract which will run for eight years.The contract commences in November 2020 and covers Kent, East Sussex and West Sussex. Kier will be responsible for maintaining 130km of motorways (M2, M20 and M23), 320km of trunk road and over 1000 structures, including Medway Viaduct, the A20 Roundhill Tunnel and the A27 Southwick Tunnel.The contract will include routine and cyclical maintenance, incident response, defect rectification and severe weather delivery on the trunk roads and motorways within Area 4. It will also include maintenance of roadside technology and the provision of traffic management for the contractor’s maintenance and response activities.Kier Highways manages, maintains and improves over 30,000km of local authority and strategic roads. In Area 4 and the surrounding areas, it has recently completed construction on two smart motorways projects and both the M20 (junctions 3-5) and M23 (junctions 8-10) are now open to road users. Currently, Kier operates one other maintenance and response contract, in Area 13, which covers Cumbria and parts of Lancashire.