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Register today at bridges.tn-events.co.uk
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Speakers Include:
Key Topics include:
• Bridge collapses – inevitable or unacceptable? Learning lessons from catastrophe • The importance of bridge inspections - we don’t know what we don’t know! • Restoration of the UK’s historic Iron Bridge • Suicide prevention and the role of bridge engineering • Latest update on revision of the Design Manual for Roads & Bridges • Bridge Inspector Certification Scheme – assessor’s feedback and scheme revisions• How to successfully bring innovations to site – a bridge contractor’s view
• Richard Fish, Bridge Owners’ Forum • Ewan Angus, Amey • Neil Loudon, Highways England• Keith Harwood, Hertfordshire Council • Graham Cole, independent consultant and lead BICS assessor• Hamish Harvey, Bill Harvey Associates • David Hester, Queens University Belfast • Kevin Dentith, Devon CC• Dr Paul McNulty, Structural Safety • Dr Lee Canning, Jacobs • Martin Halpin, APB Group • Jason Worrall, Taziker Industrial
The 27th Annual Conference and Exhibition
Bridges 201914th March | The Ricoh Arena, Coventry, UK
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Who should attend:The annual Bridges conference and exhibition regularly attracts more than 350 attendees from all facets of the bridges industry and would be of benefit to:
• Bridge owners and managers• Local authority bridge specialists • Consultants• Contractors• Bridge specialists• Architects
How you will benefit:• Learn more about how key bridge projects have
been planned, designed, implemented and maintained. Successful and practical case studies will also be presented
• Review the management of safety critical fixings – new CIRIA guidance.
• Listen to talks from internationally-renowned bridge engineers discussing state of the art in design and construction of bridges large and small
A great showcase for current and future developments in bridge engineering and construction.
Innovation & Development Manager, Delft Infra Composites
Bridges 2018 was an interesting inspiring and informative event, providing a great opportunity to meet potential future suppliers.
Senior Engineer, Skanska IS
For 26 years, the Bridges conference has driven technical knowledge, debate and discussion at the heart of Europe’s bridge community.
The 2019 conference will deliver up-to-date information through a number of technical sessions and case studies. The annual event brings together some of the sharpest minds in the bridge sector to debate and discuss all the latest challenges and opportunities for bridge engineers and managers.
Bridges 201914 March | The Ricoh Arena, Coventry, UK
Register today at bridges.tn-events.co.uk
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
8.30 Registration and exhibition hall open
9:10 Introduction from chair Speakers : Jose Maria Sanchez de Muniain, Editor, Bridge design & engineering
9:15 - 10:00 Bridge collapses - are we learning the lessons?• Causes of Collapses this century• Historic collapses and how they have improved our understanding• Investigation examples - good and bad• Safeguards against preventing collapses - theory and practice• Reality check - capacity, capability and competence
Speakers : Richard Fish, Independent Consultant & Technical Secretary, Bridge Owners’ Forum
10:00 - 10:25 Making assets smart• How can we create assets which monitor themselves, raise the alarm when necessary, and learn from their own data?• Structural health monitoring and condition & defects database• Automation, machine-learning and artificial intelligence
Speakers : Ewan Angus, Major Bridges Director, Forth Bridges, Amey
10:25 - 10:50 Structures standards - an update on the DMRB review• Future Design Manual for Roads & Bridges: vision, practical implications, benefits, work programme• Manual of Contract Documents for Highway Works review: consultation, key findings, next steps• Structures standards - an update
Speakers : Neil Loudon, Structures Group Manager, Highways England
Coffee break
Stream A
11:20 - 12:10 Pecha Kucha innovation in bridge management• A series of timed presentations showcasing
innovations from conference sponsors and exhibitors
• Reviewed and curated by a panel of independent bridge experts
Speakers : Keith Harwood, Head of Profession - Bridges and
Structures, Hertfordshire County Council
12:10 - 12:35 The Bridge Inspector Certification Scheme - dispelling the myths• Developments of the scheme• How to prepare evidence• The key topics explained
Speakers : Graham Cole, Independent Consultant and Lead BICS
Assessor
Stream B
11:20 - 11:45 Assuring the whole-life safety of bridge infrastructure• How can the industry reduce the prospect of future
infrastructure failures• Benefits of the Confidential Reporting on Structural
Safety scheme• Examples of CROSS reports related to bridges
Speakers : Dr Paul McNulty, Senior Engineer, Structural Safety
11:45 - 12:10 Day to day challenges of managing the UK’s biggest local authority bridge portfolio• Replacing major components on bridges built in the
80s and 90s• Engineering interventions to prevent suicides at
bridges – should this be the last resort?• The bridge engineer’s role in maintaining highway
retaining walls and embankments• Dealing with the unexpected
Speakers : Kevin Dentith, Chief Engineer (Bridges & Structures),
Devon County Council
12:10 - 12:35 Ormskirk is having identical twins; new FRP footbridges for Lancashire town• Longest-spanning simply-supported FRP
footbridges in UK• First FRP footbridge in UK made entirely using
vacuum resin infusion• Design development and structure/material option
selection• Best practice procurement and early supplier
engagement• FRP footbridge dynamics and testing
Speakers : Dr Lee Canning, Technical Director, Jacobs Martin Halpin, Innovation and Development Manager,
APB Group
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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Stream A
13:55 - 14:20 The importance of bridge inspections - we don’t know what we don’t know!• “Things aren’t always what they seem” - a brief
case study of a serious problem uncovered during a Principal Inspection
• Review of the 2018 RAC Foundation survey into local authority inspections
• The current position with post-tensioned bridges managed by local authorities
Speakers : Kevin Dentith, Chief Engineer (Bridges & Structures),
Devon County Council
14:20 - 15:10 The safeguarding and strengthening of Exe Viaduct• Exe Viaduct is an existing structure that carries the
M5 over the River Exe, east of Exeter. It is 692m long, composed of two independent externally post tensioned concrete box girders.
• In 2016 during an inspection, a number of post-tensioning strands were found to have broken, Further investigations found significant defects. What followed was a series of safeguarding works, weight restrictions, and finally strengthening.
• The presentation will detail the investigations, decisions and works undertaken from 2016 to 2018.
Speakers : Mark Maynard, Structures Team Leader, Highways
England (Bristol) Frederic Turlier, Technical Director, VSL UK
Stream B
13:55 - 14:20 Bridge strike management & prevention; education, enablement, engineering & enforcement• The consequences of bridge strikes• Why do bridge strikes occur and what can be done
to reduce the frequency?• The role of the Bridge Strike Prevention Group• Network Rail initiative: Education, Engineering,
Enablement & Enforcement Speakers : Mark Wheel, Senior Engineer (Structures), Network
Rail
14:20 - 14:45 Photogrammetry for masonry condition recording and inspection
Speakers : Hamish Harvey, Bill Harvey Associates
14:45 - 15:10 Advanced sensors and modelling for next-generation bridge management• Concept and description of low cost acceleration
sensing system• Data collected from bridges in the field and results
of data interpretation• Conclusions and recommendations for future work
Speakers : David Hester, Queens University Belfast
Lunch
Coffee Break
15:40-16:10 From sketch to site in under a year – the need for integrated BIM design• How a quality driven procurement challenges contractors to innovative bids• A unique hybrid and geometrically-complex design; the need for an integrated design approach based on BIM• Using new techniques to bring BIM to the construction site; augmented reality tools for visualising the design on site
Speakers : Rick Lormans, Project Manager, Dura Vermeer Infra Thijs van Roosbroeck, Partner, Ney & Partners
16.10-16.40 Closing Keynote The conservation of the world-famous Iron Bridge in Telford. Speakers : Jason Worrall, Operations Director, Taziker Industrial Ed Morton, Ed Morton Partnership
16:45 Close of conference
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Confirmed 2019 attendees include representatives from:
Amey • Arcadis • Arup • Atkins • Cambridgeshire CCl • City of York Council • Coventry City Council • COWI • Dept for Infrastructure • Doncaster MBC • Highway Engineering OU • Hull City Council • Jacobs • Kent CC • Lewisham LBC • Leeds City Council • Leicestershire CCl • Lincolnshire CC • Enfield LBC • Wandsworth LBC • Office of Rail and Road • Pitney Bowes • Rhondda Cynon Taf CBC • Ringway Jacobs Ltd • Rochester Bridge Trust • Skanska • SSE • Surrey CC • Tarmac Highway Services • Tony Gee and Partners • Transport Scotland • Wakefield Council • Waterman Aspen • Welsh Government • West Sussex CC • WFEL Ltd • WSP and many more.
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Good opportunity to network and bench mark ourselves against what other Authorities are doing.
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