After winning an early contractor involvement contract for £65.5m in early 2015, Balfour Beatty’s joint venture with Jones Bros Ruthin (Civil Engineering) is now hoping for an Autumn 2017 start on its A487 Caernarfon to Bontnewydd By-pass Project.

Work on the bypass in North Wales had previously been facing delays because of talks over wildlife concerns, but the Welsh Government has now moved the project forward publishing draft orders for the six-mile A487 by-pass

The job, which is budgeted to cost £90m including land, will run from Goat roundabout (A499 / A487 junction) and terminate at the Plas Menai Roundabout. It will involve constructing 22 structures including culverts and seven bridges.