Who We Are

We are BEAR Scotland, a Eurovia, Jacobs and Breedon Northern joint venture, formed in 2000 specifically to provide road network management and maintenance solutions to Transport Scotland and with our unique blend of engineering capability, innovation and customer care make us the best in class.

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.

We now operate and maintain 60% of Scotland’s strategic roads, consolidating our position as the leading private-sector roads operator in Scotland.

Over the past two decades we have built a sound track record of work for our clients and acquired substantial experience – experience that delivers.

Our Shareholder Alliance

BEAR Scotland is a limited company formed by the alliance of Eurovia, Jacobs and Breedon Northern. Each of these companies is successful in their own right in the road maintenance, transportation and civil engineering sectors, but the combination of the experience, skills and knowledge each company brings to BEAR provides our clients with enormous benefits through worldwide expertise and an unrivalled scope of operations.

Through BEAR and the support of our shareholders, we offer established UK highway services credentials backed by global innovation, cutting edge systems, financial stability and strengthened buying power ensuring we provide a first-rate service.

Eurovia, part of Vinci SA is a world leader in transport infrastructure construction and urban development with over 180,000 employees working around the globe. With their industrial network they provide a vast range of services, including construction, infrastructure maintenance, design-coordination services, and expert consulting as part of public-private partnership projects.

Jacobs are one of the largest and most diverse providers of technical, professional and construction services, including all aspects of architecture, engineering and construction, operations and maintenance, as well as scientific and specialty consulting. With over 70,000 employees in 230+ locations around the world they serve a broad range of companies and organizations, including industrial, commercial, and government clients across multiple markets and geographies.

Breedon is a leading construction materials group in the UK and Ireland. they operate two cement plants and around 70 quarries, 40 asphalt plants, 200 ready-mixed concrete plants, nine concrete and clay products plants, four contract surfacing businesses, six import/export terminals and two slate production facilities.

Affiliations

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