Supporting Associations and Industry Bodies

There is no better industry event, than one run BY the Industry FOR the Industry. Here are the leading industry associations and professional bodies

Transport Scotland is the new national transport agency of the Scottish Executive, set up in January 2006 to look after the Scottish trunk road and rail networks, to oversee their operation and management, and to administer the national concessionary travel schemes and travel information. The trunk road network in Scotland is some 3500 km in length, is valued at over £13bn gross and, although only 7% of the Scottish public road length, carries almost one third of the total and two thirds of the heavy goods vehicle mileage.

  TRL is the UK’s leading centre for international transport research, providing independent consultancy, advice and solutions to a range of transport issues. Key areas of work for TRL include transport and infrastructure, traffic management, road safety, environment, investigations & risk management, vehicle safety and engineering as well as logistics.

The Highways Agency is an executive agency of the Department for Transport and is responsible for operating, maintaining and improving the strategic road network in England on behalf of the Sanctuary of State for Transport. Our aim is to provide safe roads, reliable journeys and informed travellers through our prime objective of delivering a high quality of service to our customers. We aim to reduce congestion, improve reliability and road safety, respect the environment and to seek and respond to feedback from our customers.

The Institute of Highway Incorporated Engineers (IHIE) is the only national professional institution which puts incorporated engineers first. IHIE brings together all practitioners in traffic and transportation engineering, highways design, maintenance and construction. It aims to deliver new opportunities for its members and improve competence to benefit themselves and society.

The County Surveyor’s Society represents local authority chief officers with responsibility for Strategic Planning, Transportation, the Environment, Waste Management and Economic Development. Its members in England and Wales are responsible for providing professional services for 68% of the road network, 79% of the land area and 50% of the population.

The Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors (ICES) represents surveyors working within the civil engineering industry. ICES supports the professional development of surveyors working within commercial management and geospatial engineering. Governed by an elected council, ICES encourages members to be part of the future development of the profession by joining the various committees and panels.ICES is the only associated body of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and is an active member of both the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) and PI-UKChina. With regional events throughout the UK, Ireland and Hong Kong, ICES continues to develop through its membership. For more information please visit www.ices.org.uk

  The Scottish Construction Centre (SCC) facilitates innovation and excellence across Scotland’s construction industry.
The SCC aims to engage with the industry to develop and deliver knowledge transfer in ways that the industry understands in order to encourage best practice, improve research and innovation, and increase communication and development across the sector resulting in innovative construction excellence.
The SCC is driven by the real need of the Scottish construction sector and seeks to encourage best practice, improve research and innovation, and increase communication and development across the sector. The SCC website provides a "one-stop shop" for advice and guidance on sustainable, innovative construction excellence. To find out more visit http://www.scocon.org/

  Published since 1934, Highways is a personally requested, controlled circulation monthly magazine. It is mailed to named individuals at their place of work, who can prove they are involved in specifying and buying equipment, products, services and plant for the highways maintenance and traffic management industries. Highways consistently carries more advertising than any other UK based monthly Highway Maintenance and Traffic Management magazine.

Every day, 9 UK police officers have to break the news to 9 UK families, that their loved one has been killed in a road crash. A further 100 families every day learn that their loved one has been seriously injured, with many suffering brain damage, paralysis or limb loss. Brake is a national road safety charity (registration number 1093244) with two aims:
1. To prevent death and injury on the roads through education of all road users and campaigning for improvements to road safety
2. To care for people who are bereaved or affected by serious injury in a road crash through support services.

To find out more about what we do and how you can help please visit our website at http://www.brake.org.uk/

The Association of Building Engineers is a professional body whose members specialise in the technology of building.  Their work covers technical and management processes for building design, construction, renewal and maintenance.ABE offers a full range of NVQ and SVQ qualifications, for further details please visit our stand or http://www.abe.org.uk/ Members receive the monthly publication ‘Building Engineer', training discounts and the opportunity to attend free CPD events.  Student level membership is available for all those registered on construction related qualifications.

Visit our stand to receive a free copy of ‘Building Engineer' and an Information Pack.

The Institution is a learned society concerned specifically with the planning, design, construction, maintenance and operation of land-based transport systems and infrastructure.  It serves the transport profession for the benefit of society and its members.  With over 11,600 members, working across a wide range of disciplines, it aims to promote the exchange of knowledge, improve policy formulation, stimulate debate on transportation issues, recognise individual competence and encourage best practice in the industry.

To find out more visit our website http://www.iht.org/

The Institute is the Professional Body for persons working in the field of Asphalt Technology and for those interested in all aspects of the Manufacture, Placing, Technology and Uses of materials containing Asphalt or Bitumen. The Institute was founded in 1966 as a Learned Society by a group of far-sighted practitioners in the belief that there was a need for sharing technical information, educating new people into and within the Industry and for setting and protecting standards across the Industry. To this end a professional exam moderated by the Institute was established during 1967. Education in Applied Engineering and Asphalt technology was the driving force to establish the credibility of its high intentions, and to give control over technical excellence.

The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is a global membership organisation that exists to promote and progress civil engineering. It is a qualifying body, a centre for the exchange of specialist knowledge, and a provider of resources to encourage innovation and excellence in the profession, worldwide.