Andrew Sharp
Managing Director, CarnellAndrew is Managing Director of Carnell, a leading provider of civil engineering services to the road maintenance sector. A Chartered Engineer by trade, Andrew is also a Fellow of CIHT and Associate Member of the CMI. Leading a business of 300 people, Andrew thrives on developing and empowering people to deliver better every day, built around the Carnell vision that ‘we imagineer tomorrow today’.
During his career, Andrew has held numerous senior leadership positions with a strong focus on programme delivery, sustainable road maintenance, and improving customer experience. Andrew has also led many award winning safety initiative and has delivered inspiring safety leadership presentations in the UK and Europe.
My Speaker Sessions
Wednesday 30 November 2022
A96 Filter drain recycling: case study in climate resilience
Maintaining the road network in a safe and serviceable condition that is resilient to the impact of climate change, is vital to support a modern successful economy.
Increased surface water flooding is already recognised as a primary risk to the integrity of the network. The condition of roadside drainage is a key element in managing that risk. With value for money challenges as well, we need to imagineer smarter ways of taking care of our roads.
Recycling the filter media within roadside filter drains is one of these smart solutions.
Carnell’s STONEmaster solution recycles material in a single shift on site reducing the need to transport material off site, or quarry and bring new aggregate to site.
The benefits are wide ranging. Vastly reduced lorry movements, reduces the plant-people interface on site, reduces the volume of construction traffic, and reduces the number of lorry drivers required. Couple these benefits with the CO2 savings and cost savings, and the STONEmaster solution, that was used on the A96 earlier this year, is definitely a winner in making of network more resilient to the effects of climate change.
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