A9 improvement work for Breedon Aggregates Scotland

Dundee-based company wins over £6 million of major contracts on one of Scotland’s key roads

DUNDEE-based Breedon Aggregates Scotland have won major contracts valued at more than £6 million to improve two sections of the A9, a key road artery linking central Scotland with the Scottish Highlands and providing direct links between Stirling, Perth and Inverness.

The company has won a sub-contract working for John Paul Construction, worth up to £5 million, to supply and lay quarry and bituminous materials on the A9 trunk road at Crubenmore over the next eight months.

Under the contract Breedon Aggregates will lay the pavement layers on both the existing dual-carriageway section and a new 3km extension to the north of the existing dual carriageway. In total, the company will supply and in part lay over 80,000 tonnes of quarry materials and pavement layers, which will be produced at its Meadowside, Shierglas, Banavie and Netherglen quarries.

Breedon Aggregates Scotland have also won a £1.2 million contract to carry out the reconstruction of a key section of the A9 and improve a major junction at Faskally near Pitlochry.

The existing road surface will be removed along a 0.7km length, exposing the concrete base which will be repaired and treated prior to the application of a new binder course. This will then be surfaced using a special low-spray, low-noise asphalt called Breedon Polymer, which is highly durable and resistant to rutting. This will be produced at the company’s Clatchard Quarry, near Perth.

The works will include repairs to a bridge deck, installation of a new bridge parapet safety barrier and all road markings and traffic signs associated with safety improvements to the junction.

Commenting on the contracts, Alan Mackenzie, chief executive of Breedon Aggregates Scotland, said: ‘The A9 is renowned as one of the accident black spots of Scotland, with more than 70 accidents along its length in the first six months of last year alone.

‘Widening and reconstructing the road at various points along its length is playing a key role in making it safer and we’re delighted to be playing a part in that. We look forward to completing the Faskally work by the end of March and to working with John Paul Construction to deliver the important Crubenmore project later this year.’