Consultation and Planning

Our highest priority is to keep your workforce and your customers safe whilst working on the highway network. Through site surveys with our customers, our qualified designers, experienced delivery teams and robust safe systems of work we ensure safety is built-in from the very beginning.

We recognise that all of our customers need their service managed within set budgets and to demonstrate value for money. We support our customers develop realistic and robust budgets that you can rely on. Our extensive network of 36 depots nationally and direct delivery model ensures we always deliver efficiently regardless of the size, duration or location of your scheme. 

Programme certainty is the foundation of informed customers, satisfied stakeholders and best value. Our delivery teams will work with you in the planning stage to understand your delivery targets and develop an optimal programme. We use the latest software to develop, update and communicate our programmes.

Our Design Teams are located across the UK ensuring we develop bespoke solutions that consider the local network, communities and road users. Our lead designers are IHE Temporary Traffic Management (Certificate/Diploma) qualified, ensuring you of right-first-time and compliant traffic management. Our designers are skilled in the use of digital design and we can provide layout and phasing drawings as part of your review, approval and planning processes.

We recognise that roadworks can have a detrimental impact on traffic flows, customer perception and your reputation. That is why we have developed a unique service to model traffic flows around temporary traffic management on your more complex projects and locations. This true “digital rehearsal” allows us to jointly assess roadwork options, make proactive adjustments and inform customers – all well in advance of the works.

The roadspace requirements of highway authorities has evolved hugely in recent years and our service offering has too. Our central Planning and Permitting Team is hugely experienced in engaging proactively with highway authorities across the UK and ensuring compliance with local and national permitting and notification requirements. We combine this experience with the latest software and programming tools to give you piece of mind on permitting requirements.

On our long-term frameworks we are able to provide a deciated Traffic Management Co-ordinator emebbed in your team where required to complement your service and take on this specialist activity. Our co-ordinators help you reduce roadspace occupation and increase efficiency.

Successful roadworks projects rely on informed and engaged customers. Through our robust planning, programmes

We can support you with proactive customer communication across multiple channels including digital, social media, letter drops, noticeboards and attendance at public meetings and exhibitions. We can build 3D flt-thoughs and traffic models to add value to your customer and stakeholder engagement.

Using our Net-zero 2040 toolkit we can work with you at the planning stage to help achieve your project-specific carbon reduction commitments and requirements. This could be through our traffic modelling service, our award-winning technology, our fleet-based systems or our solar-powered traffic management equipment.

With our carbon footprinting tools, we can support any demonstration of emission reduction through selecting alternate and innovative solutions which we propose.

Our dedicated Early Contractor Involvement team is regularly embedded with contractors helping them deliver winning bids. As a critical member of client tender teams we help achieve best price through optimising construction phasing and project programmes, as well as build-in added value to your quality submissions. With civil engineering experience within our team we can also help you best manage project risk.