The Asphalt Industry Alliance organises a free, interactive, annual Sharing Best Practice event, aimed at local authority highway engineers. Its representatives also regularly attend and speak at a large range of industry conferences.
Register for Sharing Best Practice 2025
The date has been set for this year’s online Sharing Best Practice event. Our free webinar-style conference will run from 10am until 1pm on Thursday 13 November 2025.
Sharing Best Practice continues to be an important part of the AIA’s activity and provides an opportunity for local authority highway engineers to ask questions and share their knowledge and learnings on the maintenance and future of our local road network.
Further information about the programme and speaker line-up will follow.
Sharing Best Practice – Tuesday 19th November 2024
Our latest Sharing Best Practice virtual conference was an innovation special, looking at materials and technologies that can ensure local roads are fit for a low carbon future.
AIA Chair David Giles opened the event and welcomed the record number of delegates, with attendees from 115 local authorities across England, Wales and Scotland, as well as industry representatives attending.
Delegates heard from industry experts and local authority representatives who shared their experiences and successes in bitumen innovation, sustainable asphalt, innovation in asphalt manufacturing and laying, and the regulations, legislation and standards that provide the backdrop to the low carbon landscape.
Speakers included representatives from Blackpool Council, Norfolk County Council, Lancashire County Council, and the European Asphalt Pavement Association, before a lively panel discussion about the barriers to adopting innovation and how the supply chain can work together to overcome them and build a resilient, low carbon network.
We are grateful to all participants for their insight and thank them for allowing us to make their presentations, slides or discussions available to view:
Addressing the net zero disconnect Ian Large, Head of Highway and Traffic Management Services, Blackpool Council/Chair of the LCRIG Innovation Board
Evolution of bitumen innovation Ian Lancaster, Technical Lead, Eurobitume Simon Shearwood, Senior Engineer (Pavements & Structures), Norfolk County Council
Low carbon highways – moving from strategy to implementation Paul Binks, Highways Asset Manager, Lancashire Country Council Neil Leake, National Technical Manager, Aggregate Industries
Innovation head-to-head panel discussion David Giles, Chair, Asphalt Industry Alliance (panel chair) Paul Binks, Highways Asset Manager, Lancashire County Council Brian Kent, Chair, MPA Asphalt Committee Ian Lancaster, Technical Lead, Eurobitume Ian Large, Head of Highway and Traffic Management Services, Blackpool Council Simon Shearwood, Senior Engineer (Pavements & Structures), Norfolk County Council
Diary dates 2025
Some planned dates for your diary:
14-15 May 2025 IAT Annual Conference DeVere Torthworth Court, near Bristol
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