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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.
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:
You can watch a recording of the event in full here.
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
Sustainable asphalt
Brian Kent, MPA Asphalt
Low carbon highways – moving from strategy to implementation
Paul Binks, Highways Asset Manager, Lancashire Country Council
Neil Leake, National Technical Manager, Aggregate Industries
Innovation in asphalt manufacturing and laying
Paul Holmes, Managing Director, Wirtgen Limited
Advancing lower carbon roads
Hartlepool Borough Council/Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council/ Tarmac example
Fireside chat: Roadmap to decarbonisation
Dr Breixo Gómez Meijide, Technical Director, European Asphalt Pavement Association (EAPA)
Malcolm Simms, Director, MPA Asphalt
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
https://www.iatconference.co.uk
22 May 2025
ADEPT Spring Conference and Annual Awards Dinner
Great George Street, London
https://www.adeptnet.org.uk/events/adept-spring-conference-and-annual-awards-dinner
2-3 July 2025
LCRIG Innovation Festival
Kenilworth, England
https://lcrig.glueup.com/event/innovation-and-learning-festival-2025-123370
30 September – 02 October 2025
LCRIG Strictly Highways
Blackpool, England
https://lcrig.glueup.com/event/strictly-highways-2025-126226
15-16 October 2025
Highways UK
The NEC, Birmingham
https://www.terrapinn.com/exhibition/highways-uk/index.stm
13 November 2025 – 10am to 1pm
AIA Sharing Best Practice
Online webinar