ATM is contracted to deliver all fencing solutions and requirements, with an overall programme of up to 70km of temporary and permanent boundary solutions, on the UK’s largest ever infrastructure project.

The work consisted of clearing a number of overhanging trees and cutting/lifting significant amounts of encroaching vegetation along a 2km length of the lower Derwent, to help improve water conveyance.

Kier is the managing agent contractor for Area 3, responsible for Network management and maintenance on behalf of Highways England. Within their contract they are responsible for a range of asset management surveys, including the reflectivity performance / condition of road signs. This survey information in turn informs the development of maintenance and renewal schemes.

The scope of works included manual planting on some steep motorway embankments as well as tree and shrub shelters. Major vegetation clearance including tree clearance and pruning. Installation of various types of fencing including demarcation/temporary fencing, timber post and rail, security compound fencing as well as environmental barrier.

ATM currently delivers works on Lot 7a – Landscape & Ecology on the above contract as a Tier 1 framework contractor. The contracts start date was June 2017 and covers the major trunk roads and motorways in the South West of England.

The A1/M1 DBFO is a strategic motor way link between the M1 / M62 motorways to the south of Leeds and the A1 Trunk Road, south of Wetherby. ATM has been delivering all soft estate maintenance works on this 40 Km stretch of road for the last 14 years. Services include verge mowing, visibility splays and aesthetic grass cutting, along with wildflower cut and collecting, weed control, planned and reactive tree work, and reactive fencing.