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Byways & Highways joins Hydrock

Byways and Highways Ltd has become part of £52m turnover construction services group Hydrock.

Established in 1995, Hydrock is a nationwide construction services group, employing over 250 personnel from 12 UK offices, and has earned a top 15 place in the Sunday Times 100 Best Companies To Work For survey for the past five years.

Byways and Highways is already working with Hydrock on a number of exciting public and private sector projects and there are significant combined prospects for the future. The companies' directors have worked extensively to ensure the dynamic 15-strong consultancy business is seamlessly incorporated and rebranded to "Hydrock Byways & Highways".

Graham Fincham, previously Managing Director of Byways and Highways and now Transportation Director of the newly formed Hydrock Byways & Highways, celebrated the move: "This is fantastic news for all of us within the two companies, bringing more and larger opportunities and enabling us to offer more services to our highly-valued existing clients.

"The two companies have very similar working cultures and I believe we have a great future together," he added.

The range of existing services offered by Byways and Highways complements Hydrock's civil, structural, land quality, geoevironmental, flood risk assessment and infrastructure consultancy capabilities, and its specialist contracting offering which includes drilling, geothermal installation and slope stabilisation.

Heads of Agreement were signed on 6th October 2009 and following a due diligence process, the acquisition was completed on 22nd December 2009.

For more information contact Mike Fernott - 01454 619533

mikefernott@hydrock.com