Conference Programme


08:50 Registration, Refreshments and Exhibition Viewing
09:55 Welcome and Introduction
Dr. Andrew Murray
Chair
UK Roads Board and Northern Ireland Roads Service Director
10:00

Keynote Address:The Government Perspective and Commitment to Highway Maintenance
Norman Baker
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Transport

10:20 Highways Maintenance Efficiency Programme: Research and Data Management
Steve Kent
Director of Community and Environment
Cheshire West & Chester Council
10:35 Highways Maintenance Efficiency Programme: Business Improvement
Jason Russell
Chair
HMEP Business Improvement Workstream
and Assistant Director, Highways
Surrey County Council
10:50 Audience Interaction
Your opportunity to question the speakers on the issues raised in this morning's sessions
11:05 Morning Refreshments and Exhibition Viewing
11:35 Highways Efficiency Panel Discussion
11:50 Asset Management to Identify Appropriate Funding
Lila V. Tachtsi
Head of Technology, Highways Asset Management Group, Highways and Transportation
Atkins
12:05 Asset Valuation and Guidance: Outlining the Work of CIPFA and HAMFIG
Mandy Bretherton
Technical Manager - Local Government Finance
CIPFA
and
Chris Allen Smith
HAMFIG
12:20 An Update from the HTMA
Speaker to be Confirmed
HTMA
12:35 Audience Interaction
Your opportunity to question the speakers on the issues raised in this morning's sessions
12:45 Lunch and Exhibition Viewing
14:15 Afternoon Chair
Nick Appleyard
Editor
Surveyor
14:20 Highways Maintenance Efficiency Programme: Operational Service Delivery and Asset Management
Matthew Lugg
Director of Environment and Transport
Leicestershire County Council
14:35 Outlining how the Highways Agency Approaches and Develops Asset and Contract Management
Janet Butler
Network Delivery and Development
Highways Agency
14:50 Case Study: Practical Development of a Low Carbon Highway Maintenance Programme
  • 3 steps to develop a low carbon approach to highway maintenance
  • Assistance meeting your highways environmental, social and economic sustainability targets
  • Case study examples of low carbon innovation as well as new materials
  • Update on the ICE EMMA award winning adaptation project for local highways
Andrew Warrington
Service Director Highways
Nottinghamshire County Council
15:05 Afternoon Refreshments and Exhibition Viewing
15:35 The Nation's Roads and the 2012 ALARM Survey
David Weeks
Director
Asphalt Industry Alliance
15:50 Blackpool Council - ABC of Highways Asset Management
  • Securing political buy-in and demonstrating the need for funding
  • Project 30 - a new delivery mechanism
  • Treatment types and adding value to depreciating networks
Will Britain
Highway Asset & Network Planning Manager
Blackpool Council
Rick Green
Contracting Director - Central & Highways Services
Tarmac National Contracting
16:05 Audience Interaction
Your opportunity to question the speakers on the issues raised in this afternoon's sessions
16:25 Chair's Closing Remarks and Close of Conference

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