Highways
Driving the Future of Highways Infrastructure
Upgrading the UK’s highways is essential to support future travel demands, improve safety, and reduce congestion. As populations grow and economic activity increases, modern, resilient road infrastructure will be key to ensuring efficient movement of people and goods. Enhancements will also support the shift to cleaner transport, such as electric and autonomous vehicles, helping to meet climate goals and build a more connected, sustainable future.
At Assisting Success, we provide a full end-to-end solution to manage utility packages and infrastructure coordination for highways schemes across the Strategic Road Network and local road networks to enable safer, faster and greener outcomes delivered on time and on budget.
Utilities advisory for highways projects
We translate complex utility and planning regulations into buildable utility delivery strategies – defining the optimum scope, securing consents and land rights, phasing works and programmes, and producing robust estimates to reduce risk, unlock savings and keep the programme on track. Our advisory team helps clients navigate utilities, highways, planning and cost-sharing legislation, adding most value early in the lifecycle when decisions on diversion need, land take, duration and cost shape the business case.
When engaged later, we provide due-diligence reviews at any stage to assure that utility workstreams are on the right path, or to surface recoveries, risks and opportunities for improvement.
What we do
- Statutory Undertaker engagement: strategic relationships, utility agreements, connection dates and asset-protection approvals.
- Governance & process set-up: practical frameworks so projects engage SUs consistently and efficiently.
- Utility data & feasibility: C2 record searches; feasibility studies and technical appraisals; impact assessments and clash checks.
- Grid consultancy: power availability assessments and optimum connection strategy definition.
- Commercials & estimates: development of commercial baselines, C3 / C4 estimates, forecasting and value opportunities (apportionment, adoption / asset value).
- Procurement strategy: routes to market that drive cost and delivery efficiency.
Programme development: robust, logic-linked Primavera P6 utility programmes with critical path, dependencies and phased milestones. - Land strategy: define diversion land requirements; negotiate wayleaves and easements on third-party land.
- Access & stakeholder resolution: practical solutions with landowners and affected parties.
- Risk mitigation: quantified utilities risks with contingencies for complex schemes.
- Roadspace & permitting coordination (not TM delivery): align utility works with NRSWA/TMA noticing, permits, TTROs/closures, lane-rental and embargoes—working alongside your appointed traffic-management provider and the highway authority.
- Statutory cost apportionment: manage cost-sharing and discounts to reduce out-turn cost.
- Carbon & “build less” solutions: re-scope and sequence to lower embodied carbon by avoiding unnecessary diversions.
- Obligations management: monitor duties on all parties to ensure legislative compliance.
- Bid support for client and contractor teams.
Not sure where to start?
Commission an independent strategic audit for utilities. We provide objective audits of scope, cost and compliance on complex programmes – live or forensic. We test entitlement against contract and statute, benchmark rates and verify records on the ground.
Outcomes: optimised scope, recoverable savings, lower carbon through “build less”, and clear improvements to processes and supplier behaviour – so future projects run safer, faster and greener.
Case Studies
Need expert support for your next highways project?
Get in touch to learn how our utility coordination and project management services can keep your scheme moving quickly, safely and more effectively.
