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Colas Limited

UK company 02644726, incorporated on 11 September 1991.

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.

Company number
02644726
Incorporated
11 Sep 1991
Companies House status
Active

Company identity

Founded / incorporated
11 September 1991

Company number 02644726

Verify at Companies House
Legal name
COLAS LIMITED
Company type
Private Limited Company
Region
Unknown
Registered address
6210 BISHOPS COURT BIRMINGHAM BUSINESS PARK
SOLIHULL PARKWAY
BIRMINGHAM
ENGLAND
B37 7YB
Insolvency history
No

Corporate ownership

Updated 07 Jul 2026 09:49

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Company Active LTD
Colas Limited
CRN 02644726
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Direct and ultimate controller
552 025 314
CRN 552 025 314

Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

5 events
19 Jun
2027

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

30 Sep
2026

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

05 Jun
2026

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