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A66 Great Broughton to Fitz Roundabout Resurfacing

Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • National Highways
  • £900,000
  • April 2026 - April 2026
Resurfacing 4.6km of the A66 between Great Broughton and Fitz Roundabout, Cockermouth – covering eastbound and westbound carriageways along the main trunk road providing access to West Cumbria.
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B5292 Lorton Street Resurfacing, Recycling & Civils

Civil Engineering / Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • Cumberland Council
  • £450,000
  • March 2026 - April 2026
With DSD Construction acting as Principal Contractor to Cumberland Council, this scheme involved planing and resurfacing of the B5292 carriageway at Lorton Street, Cockermouth using recycled materials to avoid hazardous waste disposal of tar bound material.
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B2 Reinforced Concrete Prop Installation, Sellafield

Civil Engineering

  • Altrad Babcock
  • £75,000
  • December 2024 - January 2025
With DSD Construction acting as subcontractor to Altrad Babcock, this scheme involved the installation of reinforced concrete props in a nuclear facility to allow installation of a large roller shutter door to facilitate future decommissioning works.
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A5086 Gote Brow Resurfacing, Recycling & Civils

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  • Cumberland Council
  • £267,000
  • February 2026 - March 2026
With DSD Construction acting as Principal Contractor to Cumberland Council, this scheme involved planing and resurfacing of the A5086 carriageway at Gote Brow, Cockermouth using recycled materials to avoid hazardous waste disposal of tar bound material.
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Redmoss to Clayhills Civils Reinstatement & Resurfacing

Civil Engineering / Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • Balfour Beatty
  • £750,000
  • August 2025 - May 2026
This complex project involved two phases of work across 12 locations between Redmoss and Clayhills in Aberdeen, focused on removing temporary works and reinstating previous excavation areas on an existing utilities renewal scheme.
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River Calder Foul Water Crossing

Civil Engineering

  • Morgan Sindall
  • TBC
  • July 2025 - October 2025
As part of our ongoing relationship with Morgan Sindall, we have recently removed and replaced degraded gabion mattresses and boulders on a reprofiled riverbed that provide protection to a foul water drainage crossing and nearby fish easement.
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A43 Northbound Carriageway Embankment Reconstruction

Civil Engineering

  • Morgan Sindall
  • £286,000
  • March 2025 - July 2025
As part of our ongoing relationship with Morgan Sindall, we have recently completed a significant project on the A43, involving reconstruction of the embankment alongside the northbound carriageway due to a landslip.
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A66 Braithwaite to Kentigern Bridge Resurfacing

Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • National Highways
  • £600,000
  • May 2025 - May 2025
With DSD Construction acting as Primary Contractor to National Highways, this scheme involved the resurfacing and reconstruction of both lanes of a 1.5km section of the A66 between Braithwaite and Kentigern Bridge, Cumbria.
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Area 6, North Yorkshire Resurfacing & Reconstruction Schemes

Civil Engineering / Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • NY Highways
  • £850,000
  • June 2025 - August 2025
As part of our ongoing work for NY Highways, we have recently completed seven important schemes titled ‘Area 6’ as Principal Contractor. These schemes involved the resurfacing and reconstruction of town centre roads in various locations within the Harrogate and Ripon areas.
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Edinburgh Airport Main Runway Surfacing Repairs

Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • Careys
  • £360,000
  • March 2025 - March 2025
The Spring 2025 Main Runway Surfacing Repairs scheme involved the surface repair and replacement of small, medium, and large asphalt sections of the main runway at Edinburgh airport. Work was completed on night shift at weekends under a short runway closure window each night between the final scheduled flight and 04.30am.
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Cockermouth Resurfacing & Civils Works

Civil Engineering / Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • Cumberland Council
  • £550,000
  • February 2025 - March 2025
With DSD Construction acting as Primary Contractor to Cumberland Council, this scheme included three phases of resurfacing and civils works in Cockermouth – a busy market town considered ‘the gateway to the western Lake District’.
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Stoupe Brow Landslip Repairs

Civil Engineering / Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • NY Highways
  • £220,000
  • November 2024 - January 2025
With DSD Construction acting as Principal Contractor to NY Highways, scope of work included road repair works on Stoupe Brow, Ravenscar, within the Fylingdales Moor area of North Yorkshire – a rural, coastal road between Scarborough and Whitby that had recently suffered a landslide and was in need of urgent repair.
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A5086 Resurfacing & Civils Works

Civil Engineering / Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • Cumberland Council
  • £1,200,000
  • November 2024 - December 2024
With DSD Construction acting as Primary Contractor to Cumberland Council, the scope of work included resurfacing and civils works on a section of the A5086 at Cleator Moor – a busy road connecting West Cumbria to the rest of the county and to the A66 trunk road across Northern England.
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A595 Drigg Junction to Fell Lane Surfacing & Civils

Civil Engineering / Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • Cumberland Council
  • £1,500,000
  • September 2024 - November 2024
With DSD Construction acting as Primary Contractor to Cumberland Council, the scope of work included resurfacing and civils works on a section of the A595 from Drigg Junction to Fell Lane.
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A595 New Mill to Gosforth Crossroads Resurfacing, Cumbria

Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • Cumberland Council
  • £980,000
  • June 2024 - July 2024
With DSD Construction acting as Principal Contractor, this scheme involved the resurfacing of an extremely busy section of the A595 between New Mill and Gosforth, Cumbria using inlay and overlay techniques.
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Sands Centre & Swifts Car Park Surfacing & Civils

Civil Engineering / Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • Cumberland Council
  • £500,000
  • June 2024 - September 2024
With DSD Construction acting as Principal Contractor, this scheme involved all resurfacing and civils works at the Sands Centre and Swifts Bank car parks in Carlisle city centre.
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M6 J26/27 Resurfacing, Gathurst, Lancashire

Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • National Highways
  • £1,000,000
  • March 2024 - June 2024
With DSD Construction acting as subcontractor, this scheme comprised of resurfacing works on a section of the M6 between J26 and J27.
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RSA Works, Cross-a-Moor, Cumbria

Civil Engineering

  • Octavious
  • £100,000
  • February 2024 - March 2024
With DSD Construction acting as subcontractor on this scheme, we carried out civils works on the A590, Cross-a-Moor in South Cumbria.
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B1634 Refurbishment and Fit Out, SRP, Sellafield

Civil Engineering

  • Morgan Sindall
  • £700,000
  • September 2023 - June 2024
Acting as subcontractor, DSD Construction carried out the refurbishment and conversion of an existing office building in support of the Sellafield Repack Project at the Sellafield nuclear site.
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A66 Redhills resurfacing, Penrith, Cumbria

Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • National Highways
  • £1,100,000
  • February 2024 - March 2024
With DSD Construction acting as subcontractor, our scope of work on this scheme was to undertake all resurfacing works on a stretch of the A66 at Redhills, Penrith – a major trunk road connecting West Cumbria to North East England.
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Levelling Up fund civils and highways works, Cumbria

Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • Cumberland Council
  • £17,000,000
  • January 2023 - November 2024
Our scope of work on the A595 improvement works was to undertake all resurfacing and repair works on this busy route through the heart of Cumbria, from Millom to Cockermouth.
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Connect Roads framework, Cumbria

Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • Balfour Beatty
  • £1,319,000
  • Summer 2023
As part of the Balfour Beatty Connect Roads framework in Cumbria, we have recently completed three important resurfacing schemes on the A689, A596 and A6071.
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Airside maintenance works, Edinburgh Airport

Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • Edinburgh Airport / Careys
  • £740,000
  • March 2024 - April 2024
As Principal Contractor working directly for Edinburgh Airport, this scheme included the removal and replacement of 10.6km of joint sealant on the taxiways at Edinburgh Airport.
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A66 Long Newton to Elton recycling & resurfacing

Construction Recycling / Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • National Highways
  • £4,000,000
  • October 2023 - November 2023
The A66 Long Newton to Elton Recycling & Resurfacing scheme involved the resurfacing of 4.2km of the eastbound dual carriageway of the A66, junctions and slip roads using ‘in-situ’ recycling technology.
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A595 major upgrade, Moresby, Cumbria

Civil Engineering / Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • A E Yates, Milestone Infrastructure & Aggregate Industries
  • £2,300,000
  • May 2023 - August 2023
This £21m project consisted of improvements on a section of the A595 near Whitehaven, Cumbria. We acted as subcontractor to A E Yates.
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A66 Warcop resurfacing

Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • National Highways
  • £1,100,000
  • November 2023
The A66 Warcop Resurfacing scheme was a compact 2-week scheme that included planing out patches on a busy section of the main A66 trunk road into Cumbria and replacing with binder and Ultipave surface course.
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A580 east bound carriageway resurfacing, Greater Manchester

Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • National Highways
  • £250,000
  • November 2023 - June 2023
This project involved the planing out and resurfacing of the A580 Eastbound Carriageway onto the M60 in Greater Manchester.
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A595 & Corney Fell resurfacing, Cumbria

Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • Cumbria County Council
  • £275,000
  • January 2023
This scheme involved the repair and resurfacing of the link road from the A595 to Corney Fell in south Cumbria.
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Main runway surfacing repairs, Edinburgh Airport

Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • Careys
  • £370,000
  • November 2022 - March 2023
The Main Runway Surfacing Repairs scheme involved the surface repair of the main runway at Edinburgh airport during the winter months.
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A1033 Northern Gateway to Somerden roundabout

Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • National Highways
  • £820,000
  • May 2023 - July 2023
The scheme involved resurfacing and civils works to the A1033 Northern Gateway to Somerden roundabout in Hull.
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Water supply diversion, Calder Hall decommissioning project, Sellafield, Cumbria

Civil Engineering

  • Altrad Babcock
  • £60,000
  • April 2023
The Water Supply Diversion Project involved diversion of a critical water supply at the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria.
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Pile chimney barrel demolition mock-up, Sellafield, Cumbria

  • ADAPT (Altrad Babcock, Atkins, Orano)
  • £500,000
  • October 22 – February 23
The scheme involved the site preparation and construction of a 7.5 m high full-scale mock-up of the iconic Sellafield Pile Chimney barrel, which is due for demolition.
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Construction support services, Sellafield, Cumbria

Civil Engineering

  • Morgan Sindall
  • £750,000
  • January 2022 - December 2022
During 2022 we provided project support services to the multibillion £ construction programme of capital works at the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria.
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Replacement Analytical Project welfare facility, Sellafield, Cumbria

Civil Engineering

  • Morgan Sindall
  • £1,700,000
  • March 2022 - December 2022
Replacement Analytical Project Welfare Facility involved site preparation, removal of redundant services, and installation of new services.
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Sellafield Repack Project underground services

Civil Engineering

  • Morgan Sindall
  • £3,400,000
  • July 2021 - July 2022
This scheme involved the excavation and installation of the deep drainage systems and service ducting for the Sellafield Repack Project.
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Use of EMIT carbon management tool to reduce project carbon footprint

Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • Kirklees Council
  • £960,000
  • October 2021 - November 2021
In 2022 we started to measure carbon emissions of our individual projects using EMIT, a construction carbon management software platform.
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Edinburgh Airport main runway surfacing repairs

Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • Allied Infrastructure
  • £187,000
  • November 2022
This scheme involved the surface repair of the main runway at Edinburgh airport over 4 weekends during the winter months.
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North Yorkshire Highways surfacing plant & labour framework

Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • North Yorkshire Highways
  • £1,000,000
  • March 2022 - March 2026
This framework contract involved the provision of operated and non-operated highways surfacing plant supplied from our in-house fleet.
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Renewable energy powered lighting column

DSD Construction is a leader of innovation in the construction industry, with a renewable energy powered ‘off grid’ street lighting solution.
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Bridge 2 deck refurbishment, Sellafield, Cumbria

Civil Engineering

  • Morgan Sindall & Cumberland Council
  • £175,000
  • October 2022
This project involved the removal of deck surface and footpaths to carry our structural repairs and waterproofing.
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A594 resurfacing Dearham main street, Cumbria

Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • Balfour Beatty
  • £265,000
  • August 2022
This scheme involved the resurfacing of the busy A594 Dearham main street in Cumbria for our client Balfour Beatty.
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A5086 resurfacing, Peppercoats Brow, Cumbria

Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • Cumbria County Council
  • £200,000
  • August 2022
This scheme involved the resurfacing of the A5086 road between Cockermouth and Egremont in Cumbria.
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Construction of bunded extension concrete base, Dalbeattie

Civil Engineering

  • BSW Timber
  • £310,000
  • March 2023 - August 2023
This scheme involved the construction of a bunded reinforced concrete base for the new timber processing facility extension at Dalbeattie, Scotland.
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A59 junction reconstruction, Green Hammerton

Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • Excel / Avant
  • £260,000
  • August 2022 - September 2022
This scheme involved the relocation of an existing junction to improve a housing development’s route to the existing A59.
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Promenade highways improvements, Bowness on Windermere

Civil Engineering

  • Cumberland Council
  • £450,000
  • February 2022 - May 2022
The scheme involved the refurbishment, reconfiguration, and enhanced access to the promenade area of Bowness on Windermere.
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Bridge 30 deck refurbishment, Sellafield, Cumbria

Civil Engineering

  • Morgan Sindall
  • £200,000
  • July 2022 - August 2022
This project involved the removal of deck surface and footpaths to carry our structural repairs and waterproofing.
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Replacement Analytical Project welfare facility, Sellafield, Cumbria

Civil Engineering

  • Morgan Sindall
  • £150,000
  • March 2022 - December 2022
This project consisted of site preparation, removal of redundant services, construction of foundations and installation of new services for the £1bn RAP at Sellafield.
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Mineworking reinstatement, Hunter Street, Workington

Civil Engineering

  • Hargreaves Industrials
  • £200,000
  • May 2022 - August 2022
The scheme involved the reinstatement of groundworks, construction of a new compound and restoration of adjacent housing after the sudden collapse of a disused mine beneath occupied residential housing.
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A190 Foam Mix resurfacing, Seghill

Construction Recycling / Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • Northumberland Council
  • £480,000
  • March 2022
The scheme involved the cold milling and resurfacing of 11,000m2 of the A190 through Seghill.
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Stockingfield foot & cycle bridge improvements

Surfacing & Cold Milling

  • Balfour Beatty
  • £240,000
  • April 2022 - June 2022
The scheme involved the construction of a new footbridge and combined cycle / footpath to connect the Forth and Clyde canals in Glasgow.
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