Key Facts
- Client: Transport Scotland
- Balfour Beatty company involved:
Balfour Beatty
Infrastructure Services
- Transport Scotland was established in January 2006 as an
executive agency of the Scottish Government. It was set up to
support the Scottish Government's vision for sustainable transport
across the country
- Scotland TranServ is a Balfour Beatty and
Mouchel joint
venture, responsible for the management and maintenance of the
trunk road network in north-west Scotland
- The five-year contract, worth approximately £27 million
per annum, commenced in April 2006 and has extension options of up
to two years
- Scotland has over 3,300km of trunk roads, of which over a third
are in the north-west region
- These trunk roads account for 7% of the total length of public
roads in Scotland
- There are over 2,300 structures in the contract, including more
than 1,300 bridges, such as the Skye Bridge and Kessock Bridge
- To carry out the contract, Scotland TranServ is working with
The Highland Council, Argyll and Bute Council, Stirling Council and
Perth & Kinross Council
- The contract includes the A9 from Perth to Thurso, the A82 from
Loch Lomond to Inverness and the main arterial routes to the west
coast ports and islands such as Wick, Ullapool and Oban
- The scope of the work includes: all routine network
inspections; winter maintenance; routine, cyclical, structural,
road lighting and traffic signal maintenance; road improvements;
gully emptying; grass cutting and weed control; cleaning traffic
signs; carriageway and cycleway defect repairs; safety barrier
repairs; and road lighting faults
