Construction
Making connections happen – Duncan Reed and Stuart Campbell, Trimble
Trimble’s Duncan Reed, Business Development Manager, and Stuart Campbell, Head of Sales and Business Development, explores the value of connected technology for civil infrastructure, ahead of Highways UK 2022 Our nation’s civil infrastructure is a critical part of the...
Innovative and sustainable approaches to concrete road refurbishment – Martyn Sherwood, Metrail Construction
Martyn Sherwood, managing director at Metrail Construction, talks through sustainable methods to road maintenance taken from Germany's Autobahn now being used in the UK. Innovation, sustainability and technology — three things that we at Metrail are proud to be at the...
Hitting the bridge deck running as the new kid on the National Highways block – Rob Cook, Winvic
Rob Cook, Civils & Infrastructure Director at Winvic, talks about their delivery strategy and projects ahead of exhibiting at Highways UK this year. Since I was appointed by Winvic in the brand-new role of Director for Civils and Infrastructure, it has been a...
Investing in digitisation offers great added value – Thomas Leopoldseder, Q Point
Thomas Leopoldseder, CEO of Q Point, unpacks the potential of digital solutions within the road construction process. Through the digitalization of business processes, internally or together with business partners, decisive competitive advantages can be achieved -...
Inclusive Infrastructure Solutions – Mathew Haslam, Hardscapes
Mathew Haslam, managing director at Hardscape outlines their extensive product range with the UK’s largest selection of Connectivity Solutions Products. Proudly independent and with over 25 years of expertise in pushing the boundaries of hard landscaping, Hardscape is...
Never, never, never give up
Author: Karla Wakeman, Innovation Lead for Connected Transport, Innovate UK Winston Churchill once said "never, never, never give up". A good moto for us all and often applies to finding funding for your projects and innovations. We witness this often at Innovate UK...
Connecting the Constructors
Author: Neil Williams - Engineering & Infrastructure Segment Manger, Leica Geosystems Despite the current political uncertainty, we are seeing record investment from Highways England channelled through initiatives such as the Regional Development Partnership...
It’s time to get to grips with digital
Author: Lesley Waud - Transport Design Development Director, SNC-Lavalin Atkins By people, I really mean a culture and a mindset: a perception by many that doing things 'digitally' is a threat to long-held technical specialism or expertise. But I don't see it in those...
The role of roads on the road to net-zero carbon emissions
Author: Adam Crossley - Adam Crossley, head of environment and strategy, Skanska UK Even if you are not a big advocate of fighting climate change you can't help but notice how it is increasingly on the agenda everywhere - whether it's protests in Parliament, the Prime...
You can’t do Big Data if you can’t do Small Data
Author: Brian Fitzpatrick - Brian Fitzpatrick, Founder, Fitzpatrick Advisory The future of our infrastructure is digital, but just who is best placed to build the local authority capability to manage this revolution? Who will look after the impact of decisions made by...
Invest today to deliver the highway infrastructure of tomorrow
The UK's strategic road network is one of its most valuable national assets, key to our economic growth. Four million people use Highways England's strategic road network each day, and this is forecast to grow by over 40% by 2040. Just as an effective roads network is...
The vital ingredients for successful asset management
The challenges facing highway authorities seem to amount to an almost impossible conundrum. Peaks in public expectation are matched by troughs in central government funding for local infrastructure. As recently highlighted in a letter by a group of industry bodies to...
Delivering an end-to-end approach to asset renewal
Funding cuts and a lack of investment in the local road network have resulted in the well documented highways network decline and maintenance backlog we face today. With short-term election cycles obstacles to long-term planning, making the case to elected members for...
Do you want to challenge the highways sector to change?
Talking Heads template This is an incredible time to work in the UK highways sector. Across the country organisations are investing at record levels in innovative approaches to ensure the nation's roads networks meet the demands of a growing travelling public. But we...
Where we’re going we DO need roads!
In the closing scene of the 1985 sci-fi adventure Back to the Future, Doc, Marty, and Jennifer are preparing to take a trip forward to 2015. Marty is worried that Doc hasn't given himself enough road to get the DeLorean up to 88 miles per hour, the speed that triggers...
Connecting the South East
It's possible that you haven't yet heard of Transport for the South East (TfSE). It is the youngest of the four emerging organisations vying to become Sub-national Transport Bodies (STBs) under the Government's plan to give regions new powers to transform transport in...
Can wearable tech tell us the things we don’t often get round to asking?
Ask yourself the following! We've all heard the comments such as "he hasn't turned up" (meaning he's there in body but not in mind), "It will do"! (too tired to complete the task) and "Change of plan" (equipment or resources not available). Fatigue can have...
