We are proud to have been selected by the A14 Integrated Delivery Team (IDT), a joint venture between Costain, Skanska, Balfour Beatty and Designers Atkins/CH2M, as the principle landscape contractor for Highways England’s A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme.
The landscaping contract forms part of the £1.5bn scheme to upgrade 21 miles of the A14. Commencing in November 2016, construction works include a new bypass for Huntingdon, widening of sections of the existing A14 and A1, 7 miles of newly-created local access roads together with improvements to five major junctions. The new road is on schedule to be open to traffic by December 2020.
The landscaping contract has been meticulously designed to mitigate the impacts of the construction works, simultaneously improving the biodiversity of the surrounding area. To facilitate this vision, over 271ha of new habitat areas will be created together with the planting of over 850,000 trees and shrubs, 275,000 aquatic and marginal plants, 100,000 wildflower bulbs and over 473ha of grass and wildflower seeding. The landscaping contract, which commenced in October 2018, will deliver this over a two-year period.
