Canal & River Trust awards contracts for restoration and repair of historic waterways
The Canal & River Trust has awarded contracts to JN Bentley and Kier for construction and engineering projects across its 2,000 miles of historic waterways.
The new contracts have a potential total value of approximately £500m and are the Trust’s largest award of waterway engineering works.
Covering the north and south of the network respectively, JN Bentley and Kier will carry out the largest restoration and repair projects and work on the Trust’s most complex assets such as reservoirs, embankments, culverts, tunnels and aqueducts. Work will include responding to dynamic situations, such as flooding or canal breaches.
In a statement, Malcolm Horne, chief infrastructure and programmes officer at Canal & River Trust, said: “Built 250 years ago as arteries of the Industrial Revolution, today Britain’s canals are the world’s finest network of working industrial heritage. They now play an equally important role in society as corridors for nature, tackling health inequalities and improving community wellbeing, as well as supporting jobs and local economies.
“The ongoing task of caring for the thousands of historic assets that make up this extraordinary infrastructure network requires a substantial programme of work.”
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