Bear Scotland Ltd

Profile

BEAR Scotland is a leading road maintenance and management firm in Scotland.

We manage, maintain and improve a large part of Scotland’s Trunk Road Network, including over 2,500km of carriageway and around 3,000 structures bridges through some of the most scenic parts of our country.

BEAR is an alliance formed by Eurovia, Jacobs and Breedon to provide road network management and maintenance solutions to Transport Scotland.

Our unique blend of engineering capability, innovation and customer care has helped BEAR become Scotland's leading private-sector operator, managing and maintaining around 80% of Scotland's strategic roads.

We pride ourselves on delivering a first-rate service to our clients based on the whole-hearted commitment of our employees, our flexible approach, our breadth of experience and our operational capability. Having offices and depots with highly skilled people located throughout the country, our dedicated teams are working around the clock, tackling just about every imaginable task on Scotland's Trunk Road network.

Our vast experience of service delivery includes:

Road maintenance operations

Our skilled teams carry out emergency repairs to minimise disruption caused by any road defects or road traffic accidents. We also carry out road safety repairs, cyclic maintenance activities such as gully cleaning and grass cutting, and also provide traffic management to keep motorists as well as our workforce safe. Specialist electrical teams take care of the street lighting and traffic signals across the trunk roads we are responsible for, and our landscaping teams manage an extensive grass cutting, tree felling and weed management programme to keep roads clear and safe. We also keep the roads clear of ice and snow 24/7 through our robust winter maintenance programme.

Civil engineering consultancy

BEAR Scotland is one of the largest civil engineering consultancies in Scotland. Our team of designers deliver innovative solutions in roads improvement design, road structural maintenance to improve the durability of the existing road network, bridge inspection and design as well as accident investigation and prevention to improve road safety. Our end-to-end approach means that BEAR has the capability to deliver the smallest sign replacement scheme to large road reconstruction and bridge replacement projects. Our highly experienced work force provide supervision through every stage of works ensuring peace of mind to clients and road users.

Network management

We also carry out safety and detailed road inspections, asset management inspections, assess planning applications, authorise road space for all roadworks on the trunk road network, and work to ensure disruption is kept to a minimum for road users.