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DAY ONE - 04/11/09

ROAD SAFETY

10.00 - 10.30: Your Call (Health and Wellbeing Through Road Safety). Kate Wheaton, Education Advisor, Road Safety Scotland.

10.45 - 11.15: Driving Forward Road Safety in Scotland. Dr. Karen McDonnell, Head of RoSPA Scotland.

11.30 - 12.00: Marking Out a Safer Future in Future Road Safety Strategies. George Lee, National Director, Road Safety Markings Association.

The RSMA has submitted detailed and comprehensive responses to recent consultations on future road safety strategies.  In this presentation George Lee will build on the RSMA submissions, providing an outline of the case for road markings as a key element in achieving successful accident reduction post 2010.

12.15 - 12.45: Maintaining Road Safety Through The Use of Surface Treatments. Dr Howard L Robinson, (BSc, PhD, C Chem, MRSC, MIHT, MEI, C Sci), Chief Executive, Road Surface Treatments Association.

The Road Surface Treatments Association ( RSTA ) has 70 member companies who provide a range of surface treatment techniques that restore the necessary skidding resistance and prolong the lifetime of existing road surfaces thereby delaying expenditure on structural maintenance. Some Surface Treatments are fairly well known such as Surface Dressing and High Friction Surfacings, however over recent years a new generation of surface treatments has emerged which are less well known but which have an equally important role to play in helping highway authorities to devise alternative planning strategies to maintain the existing highway asset in the most cost effective way, whilst ensuring public safety is protected at all times. This presentation will briefly review the wide range of surface treatments now on offer, where they can be used, how they are specified and regulated by Product Standards and industry guidance. Surface treatments also provide low carbon footprint solutions that generate very little if any waste, minimise disruption to the road user during installation and minimise the use of finite aggregate reserves. In this difficult economic climate having a full understanding of what Road  Surface Treatments have to offer should be high on the priority list for anyone involved in maintaining road surface safety.

13.00 - 13.30: Asset Management Systems Role in Road Maintenance and Safety Improvements, Malcolm J Durie, (BSc (Hons), CEng, MICE, MIAT), Principal Engineer, Grontmij.

13.45 - 14.15: The Green Way to Reduce KSI's Using Astucia's Intelligent Road Stud Technology. John Swift, Business Development Manager for Scotland and Ireland, Clearview Traffic Group.

14.30 - 15.00: Skid Resistance Correction, Retexturing - What, Why and When? Tim Naidu, Business Manager, Klaruw.

15.15 - 15.45: Overbanding - Curse or Cure? Mike Harper, (BSc (Hons), DipM, MCIM, MBA), Development Director, Stirling Lloyd Polychem Ltd.

Highway engineers have to deliver good value in road maintenance, whilst keeping disruption to a minimum and ensuring the network is safe in the face of ever increasing traffic volumes. Overbanding for sealing cracks and seams in asphalt pavements had long been used as a low cost, rapid repair method, and has many long term advantages in terms of stopping water ingress into asphalt pavements. Water ingress can create major structural damage to the road over the long term if not prevented, and can reduce the effectiveness of utility trench reinstatements. In recent years overbanding has been largely discontinued in Scotland due to safety concerns with traditional systems, but this leaves the network vulnerable to rapid degradation. If we understand the mechanisms that create the safety risks, we can design products that provide the protection benefits of overbanding, without creating risks to the safety of road users.

Overbanding - Curse or Cure presents the case, identifies the mechanisms and offers a new, safer solution to an old problem.

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DAY TWO - 05/11/09

ICES MORNING

10:00 - 10:30: Update on the Institution's New Royal Chartered Status. Paul Brown, Professional Development and Membership Manager, Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors.

Overview of the products and services available for civil engineering surveyors and employers to develop skills through the current economic climate.

10:40 - 11:40: Review of the pilot project to develop a speed map for the Lancashire County highway network using video mapping, GPS and inertial navigation techniques. John McCreadie, Photarc Surveys.

11:50 - 13:00: Laser scanning, surveying and ground penetrating radar - The full three dimensional picture, above and below the ground. Jeff Hott, Coastway. 

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13.15 - 13.45: Structural Health Monitoring and Advanced Structural Testing Techniques. Jon Watson, Project Manager, Physical Accoustics.

14.00 - 14.30: The Screw Pile Revolution for Motor Way Sign Foundations. Peter Dunn, (BSc, Ceng, MIStructE) Chairman, Screwfast Foundations Ltd. 

14.45 - 15.15: Road Asset Data Collection. Ian Hewson, General Manager for Scotland & Peter Murphy, Business Development Manager, Farrer Ltd.

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