GHD awarded place on Ealing Highways and Transport Services Framework

GHD has been appointed to Lot 3 (General Engineering) on the London Borough of Ealing’s Highways and Transport Services Framework 2025–2029. The framework runs from 1 November 2025 to 31 October 2029, is available to 33 authorities and includes up to five suppliers supporting highways, transport and public-realm services.

For GHD, this is a long-term platform for work that people notice in daily life. It covers the streets, junctions and local centres that shape how safe, comfortable and accessible a place feels. It also gives councils a clear route to bring in support when they need it.

The new term also helps GHD turn methods into visible outcomes on real streets. Teams can apply PAS 2080-aligned thinking to carbon reduction and test options in live schemes. They can also carry learning from one borough to the next, rather than starting from scratch each time. That continuity supports joined-up delivery across related commissions and helps maintain momentum from early engagement to design and construction support. Performance remains transparent through structured quality processes, key performance indicators and client feedback loops.

Under Lot 3, GHD can deliver general engineering and advisory services, including:

• Civil and highways engineering.
• Asset management.
• Road-safety engineering and audits.
• CDM 2015 advice.
• Traffic and parking orders.
• Transport planning and modelling.
• Data analysis.
• ‘Healthy Streets’ and placemaking.
• Urban design.
• Public realm.

The scope also covers utilities and drainage, structures, street lighting, development-related highway works (s38/s278) and engagement and public consultation on local schemes.

The framework has an annual maximum spend of £5 million across Lot 3’s five suppliers and the 33 participating authorities. For projects under £100,000, the client can use a direct award, where permitted. A Preferred Supplier approach may be used first, where appropriate, while still allowing capacity to be managed across suppliers. Ealing can call off work through mini competitions for larger commissions.

GHD has supported Ealing and other London boroughs during the previous framework period. That work has included secondments, highways and public-realm projects, and wider programmes that began in Kingston and Haringey and later extended to Ealing and Richmond.

Across the framework term, GHD will work with council teams, partners and local stakeholders to develop streets that support safe movement, local businesses and healthier, lower-carbon travel choices.

About GHD

GHD is a leading professional services company operating in the global markets of water, energy and resources, environment, property and buildings, and transportation. Committed to a vision to make water, energy, and communities sustainable for generations to come, GHD delivers advisory, digital, engineering, architecture, environmental and construction solutions to public and private sector clients. Established in 1928 and privately owned by its people, GHD’s network of 12,000+ professionals is connected across 165 offices located on five continents.