Kier Highways Birmingham Roads Contract

Kier Highways has successfully mobilised its new 15-month interim highways services contract for Birmingham Highways Ltd (BHL).

There will be approximately 360 employees transferred across to Kier from Amey Highways under TUPE, the contract was mobilised in six weeks, with the last two weeks working to Government advice, and suing social distancing and self-isolation measures.

To successfully mobilise the contract and in order to welcome the new Kier employees during these unprecedented times, the Kier Highways team got creative, by holding a series of online induction and training sessions at various times in order to ensure all new employees were able to attend. They also hosted ‘digital drop ins’ in order to allow new employees to virtually meet their colleagues.

The contract which is set to run up until June 29^th, 2020, includes Birmingham’s traffic operations, planned and reactive maintenance and inspections and winter servicing. It covers more than 2,500 km of road, and 5,000 km of footways, along with 846 structures, three tunnels, 94,000 street lighting columns, 76,000 highway trees and the city’s traffic control system.

Joe Incutti, acting Group Managing Director of Keir Highways said: “We are delighted to welcome 360 new employees to Keir Highways, and I am extremely proud of the mobilisation team who have worked exceptionally hard under unprecedented circumstances to seamlessly transfer all employees and services in time for day one. I would also like to thank Amey Highways for their support during this process.

“We are delighted to be appointed in this contract, and to be working alongside Birmingham City Council and Birmingham Highways Ltd to maintain a safe and reliable network for our customers in Birmingham.”

Keir Highways also manages 30,000 km of the UK’s strategic and local authority road network, and currently works with a wide range of local authorities throughout the country. It also delivers highway services to 4.2 million people and its routine reactive maintenance includes emptying gullies, surface treatment and repairing potholes.

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