A Darwen firm has been honoured with two national awards for their innovative pothole repair techniques.

Multevo partnered with Shropshire Council to help to fix potholes permanently, reduce repeat visits, disruption and cost.

Last week, Shropshire Council and Multevo were awarded the DfT Special Recognition Collaborative Partnership Award.

The week before, the company won the Highways Award for Team of the Year at the Highways Awards, beating off competition from National Highways, WSP, Metropolitans Police and Westminster Council who were nominated for their work around the King’s Coronation.

Multevo’s turnkey solution for potholes, defect, patch repairs and small surfacing works has enabled the council to save £1.4m per year which is a 75 per cent reduction in the cost of pothole repairs.

A focus on fix-first-time methodologies has reduced the number of outstanding potholes from 8,567 to 2,122.

The Darwen firm works across the countryMultevo was established in an office space above Hoddlesden Village Store in 2010 and now employs more than 340 people across the UK.

Director of marketing and growth at Multevo, Josh Sweeney said: “There is no higher accolade than the DfT Special Recognition Awards for us and so winning the highly contented Collaborative Partnership Award is a very proud moment for everyone at Multevo and Shropshire Council. 

"The entire Shropshire team have now been rightly recognised for all of their hard work, in a short space of time, in two separate national sector awards so credit where it is due, the industry is taking notice. Well done team Shropshire!”