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Colas Limited

Colas UK Infrastructure Contractor | Highway & Airport Contractor

Colas UK Infrastructure Contractor: We design, construct and maintain highway, aviation and defence infrastructure projects across the UK and Internationally.

CRN
02644726
Founded
1991
Age
34

Overview

Legal name
COLAS LIMITED
Region
Unknown
Registered address
6210 BISHOPS COURT BIRMINGHAM BUSINESS PARK
SOLIHULL PARKWAY
BIRMINGHAM
ENGLAND
B37 7YB
Insolvency history
No

Corporate ownership

Updated 06 Jun 2026 16:52

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Colas Limited
CRN 02644726
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CRN 552 025 314

Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

5 events
30 Sep
2026

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

19 Jun
2026

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

05 Jun
2025

Confirmation statement filed

Confirmation

Last confirmation statement made up date

31 Dec
2024

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

11 Sep
1991

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Public funding

4 awards
First funded
2013
Funded years
2013, 2015, 2018, 2025
Age at first award
21 years

Projects

2025 Department for Science, Innovation & Technology Lead participant

Decarbonising road construction and renewals through a tailored cold recycled asphalt material system with biogenic and waste-derived additives.

1 Nov 2025 to 31 Mar 2026

Awarded
£187,975
Total cost £187,975

In the highways sector, road resurfacing and construction remains highly dependent on asphalt-based approaches that utilise a high proportion of virgin aggregates and fossil-derived bitumen binders, processed at high temperatures up to 200°C. This results in significant greenhouse gas emissions across Scopes 1 to 3\. In many local authority scenarios it i...

2018 Knowledge Transfer Partnership

Liverpool John Moores University & Colas Limited

1 Jul 2018 to 30 Jun 2020

Awarded
Unknown

To produce an industry world-first ‘nano’ emulsion, providing durability that the road-surfacing and maintenance industry required. Properties to include a high bonding quality, smaller bitumen droplets, a long-term stability, controllable viscosity and lower emulsifier to oil ratio.

2015 Feasibility Studies

SiteNAV - Safety Navigation and Hazard Identification for Construction Worksites

1 Sep 2015 to 31 May 2016

Awarded
£29,710
Total cost £59,419

Public sector spending on highway maintenance and infrastructure construction projects will be rapidly increasing over the coming 5 year period (2016-2021). Although this is great news for industry and the economy, rapidly increasing workloads will put significant strain on resources, which creates natural conflicts with essential health and safety practi...

2013 Knowledge Transfer Partnership

Liverpool John Moores University And Colas Limited

1 Jan 2013 to 31 Oct 2015

Awarded
Unknown

To develop and evaluate microasphalt containing glass fibres giving high resistance to cracking, and establish the capability for further exploitation of glass fibre in pavement applications.

Product types

Department for Science, Innovation & Technology Feasibility Studies Knowledge Transfer Partnership