A joint venture (JV) between Breedon Aggregates and Whitemountain has secured a £55 million contract to carry out a road surfacing project in Scotland.

The JV will supply and lay over 500,000 tonnes of asphalt material for the £745m Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route/Balmedie–Tipperty (AWPR/B-T) project.

The scheme, being developed by AWPR Construction Joint Venture on behalf of Aberdeen Roads Limited, is the longest roads construction project currently underway in the UK.

It extends from Stonehaven to Tipperty and involves 55km of dual carriageway, 22km of slip roads and 39km of side roads/accesses.

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Both Breedon and Whitemountain will erect a mobile asphalt plant on site and utilise locall sourced aggregates.

In addition, the firms will supply any offsite aggregate and sand requirements for the asphalt products, as well as high PSV aggregates for the surface course of the main carriageway.

Chief Executive of Breedon Aggregates Scotland, Alan Mackenzie, said: "We're proud to be playing our part in bringing this hugely important infrastructure project to fruition.  It will remove one of the most notorious bottlenecks in the country and deliver significant benefits to the local economy.

"This is our largest-ever contract award and will provide the backbone of work for our contracting division over the next two years.  Importantly, the two mobile plants will mean we're self-sufficient on-site.

"We look forward to working with our JV partner, Whitemountain, to provide an outstanding service on the AWPR/B-T between now and completion of the surfacing works over the next couple of years."

Whitemountain MD Mark Kelly added: "We are delighted to be working with Breedon in the joint delivery of such a major infrastructure project, which will no doubt be of significant benefit to the region."

(LM/CD)