{"id":85020,"date":"2020-11-06T14:34:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T14:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=85020"},"modified":"2020-11-06T14:34:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T14:34:06","slug":"kier-highways-motorway-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/kier-highways-motorway-upgrade\/85020\/","title":{"rendered":"Kier Highways to complete motorway upgrade six months early"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kier.co.uk\/expertise\/highways\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kier Highways<\/a> is set to finish construction of its <a href=\"https:\/\/highwaysengland.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Highways England<\/a> project M6 13-15 motorway upgrade work six months early<\/h2>\n<p>The contraflow system in operation on this motorway upgrade has enabled a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/construction-technology-news\/automated-cone-laying-vehicle\/82990\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">number of improvements<\/a> including a 50% reduction in the number of road closures required, allowing road users to continue travelling this stretch of the network while work takes place behind a physical safety barrier, and allowing additional space to undertake works which included the change of geotechnical solutions for the construction of retaining walls.<\/p>\n<p>Value engineering along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/bim-news\/groupbc-common-data-environment\/79907\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">several innovative solutions<\/a> reduced the project programme by two months on this project which is turning the hard shoulder into an extra traffic lane and installing up-to-date technology that will help keep traffic flowing smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>A 60mph speed limit was also introduced successfully across a significant length of the scheme to reduce customer journey times through the roadworks.<\/p>\n<p>Work was due to finish in March 2022, but road users can now expect the roadworks to be completed in September 2021.<\/p>\n<h3>Focus on safety, customer and delivery<\/h3>\n<p>Gavin Jones, project director, said: \u201cIt is extremely pleasing to be able to confirm the betterment of the opening date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team has done a fantastic job over the past two and a half years, relentlessly focusing on safety, customer and delivery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis earlier date has been achieved through first-class innovation in key areas, and enthusiastic collaboration with Highways England, our supply-chain, the designer and customers from the very start of the project.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kier Highways is set to finish construction of its Highways England project M6 13-15 motorway upgrade work six months early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[9877,669,806,280],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-national-highways","8":"tag-regeneration","9":"tag-road-improvements","10":"tag-transport"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kier Highways to complete motorway upgrade six months early<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kier Highways is set to finish construction of its Highways England project M6 13-15 motorway upgrade work six months early\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/kier-highways-motorway-upgrade\/85020\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kier Highways to complete motorway upgrade six months early\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kier Highways is set to finish construction of its Highways England project M6 13-15 motorway upgrade work six months early\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/kier-highways-motorway-upgrade\/85020\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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