Morning

09:00 - Arrival: Meet & greet with CIHT East Midlands Committee volunteers & refreshments (Coffee/tea & biscuits) 

09:30 - Welcome & Introductions - Dr Jwan Kamla, CIHT East Midlands Chair & Prof Glenn Lyons, CIHT President

09:50 - Net Zero Regeneration - Wayne Bexton

10:05 - Manufactured aggregates for pavement applications - Dr Ignacio Artamendi

10:20 - Climate resilient permeable pavements - Dr Alalea Kia

10:35 - Break: Refreshments (Coffee/tea & biscuits) 

11:00 - Measuring and managing asphalt carbon footprint - Dr Tony Parry

11:15 - ADEPT Climate change adaptation guide for local roads - Andrew Warrington

11:30 - Panel Questions chaired by a moderator TBC

Afternoon

12:30 - Lunch Break
Two-course savoury finger buffet lunch & networking

13:30 - CIHT Climates workshop-at-speed - Prof Glenn Lyons

14:30 - Break: Refreshments (Coffee/tea & biscuits)

14:45 - Modal shift: from targets to implementation - Clare Sheffield

15:00 - Debunking myths about emissions - Dr Sam Bailey

15:15 - The Mansfield flood alleviation scheme - Speaker TBC

15:30 Panel Questions chaired by John Dora

16:00 Finish

Net Zero Regeneration

Wayne Bexton - Director of Green Growth, Investment and Assets, Nottinghamshire County Council

Wayne Bexton is the Director of Green Growth, Investment and Assets at Nottinghamshire County Council. He has worked in public sector Place leadership roles for over 20 years, specialising in delivering sustainable economic growth that aligns with environmental best practice. Wayne has previously delivered sustainability advice in the private sector. 

Wayne has been recognised as one of the top 500 influencers on environment and climate change, and is a Board Director of Arc Partnership and the Scape Group.
Wayne has delivered numerous high profile, high value environmental projects and programmes for the public sector across the Midlands, receiving industry recognition along the way including the National Lottery Awards Environment Category Winner, edie National Green Recovery 2021 and Local Authority of the Year 2020/2021. 

Currently leading on Nottinghamshire’s ambitious Place agenda, with an array of significant opportunities ahead of the County including STEP Fusion, Freeport and Investment Zone.

Manufactured aggregates for pavement applications

Dr Ignacio Artamendi - Head of R&D & Technical Services, Holcim UK

Ignacio Artamendi leads Holcim UK’s research activities in pavement materials including asphalt and aggregates. His current research activities are focussed on the development and evaluation of sustainable low carbon materials for road construction. He also manage the laboratory’s testing activities in support of the business and is responsible for the laboratory’s UKAS accreditation. He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), holds a PhD on asphalt mixtures, has published over 50 technical papers in international journals and presented at major international conferences on pavement engineering.

This talk will introduce various types of manufactured aggregates used in pavement construction. It will describe how these manufactured aggregates are produced and what are their key properties. The talk will cover some of the main applications for these manufactured aggregates including asphalt and unbound materials. The talk will present the results of a laboratory study on the friction properties of a manufactured lightweight aggregate. It will also cover manufactured low carbon aggregates produced by mineral carbonation of various waste materials. During these processes CO2 is permanently captured as mineral carbonates to produce a low carbon aggregate. The talk will describe how these low carbon aggregates can be incorporated into asphalt and unbound materials. It will also provide information regarding the engineering performance of these mixtures and their global warning potential. 

Climate Resilient Permeable Infrastructure

Dr Alalea Kia - Resilient Sustainable Infrastructure Group Lead, Imperial College London

Alalea Kia's research interests are focussed on cleantech, mitigation of the damaging effects of climate change and the transformation of the construction sector towards net-zero. My work encompasses urban flood mitigation and adaptation, sustainable drainage systems, permeable concrete pavements and their application in extreme weather and loading scenarios, additive manufacturing, multi-scale experimental and numerical modelling methods, durability of cement-based materials and the development of new low-carbon cementitious materials.

She was chosen as one of the ‘Top 50 Women in Engineering’ in 2022 by the Women’s Engineering Society, received the ‘Hawley Award for Engineering Innovation’ by the Worshipful Company of Engineers and Engineering Council, and the Imperial College London President’s Medal for Excellence in Research in 2023. In 2024, She was also selected as a RAEng Young Engineer of the Year and received the Sir George MacFarlane Medal.

Flooding currently costs the UK £2.2bn annually and is projected to rise to £27bn by 2080 without significant flood resilient infrastructure investment. Permeable concrete pavements are one of the most promising flood mitigation strategies. However, they suffer from low permeability, high clogging potential, low strength and durability. This talk will introduce the first high-strength clogging resistant permeable pavement (Kiacrete) and highlight its superior laboratory performance.

Measuring and managing asphalt carbon footprint

Dr Tony Parry - Associate Director, AtkinsRealis

Tony Parry has worked in the field of road pavement materials and carbon footprint methodology for over 30 years. He is an Associate Director in the Pavements team at AtkinsRéalis, which he joined nearly three years ago, following 17 years as an Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham. He is currently working on highway decarbonisation and climate resilience plans for national and local highway authorities and the road construction industry.

Asphalt is a significant contributor to the carbon footprint of road networks and this needs to be reduced to help meet highway authorities Net Zero targets. Based on experience from research with National Highways and Mineral Products Association and its members, this talk will describe the progress being made with trials of some low carbon asphalt technologies and the latest standards for how the carbon footprint can be measured.

ADEPT Climate change adaptation guide for local roads

Andrew Warrington - Senior Technical Director, Arcadis

More info TBC

CIHT CLIMATES at-speed-workshop

Prof Glenn Lyons - CIHT President & Mott MacDonald Professor of Future Mobility at UWE

Glenn Lyons is the Mott MacDonald Professor of Future Mobility at UWE Bristol. The appointment bridges between academia and practice and Glenn is dividing his time between the university and Mott MacDonald (on secondment). At a time of significance for the transport sector, the position aims to co-develop and extend transport expertise in relation to understanding and responding to a changing and uncertain mobility landscape, which is shaped by technological possibilities and societal needs and preferences. Glenn was also formerly the Professor of Transport and Society at UWE Bristol and was the Founder of the Centre for Transport & Society. Glenn’s achievement are too many to list here but it is safe to say that he has led the way in transport planning.

CIHT CLIMATES is a new initiative that is exploring possible futures for transport and the environment and what the implications for professionals and organisations in the highways and transportation sector. We are asking our members and the sector what are the priorities for the transport sector as we enter a crucial period for tackling climate change. CIHT CLIMATES aims to develop a series of practical recommendations to enable the sector to take meaningful and appropriate action.

Modal Shift: From targets to implementation

Clare Sheffield - Director of Transport Planning, Arup

Clare is a director in the transport planning team at Arup. Working with clients globally, she specialises in ‘bridging the gap’ between policy-makers and technical specialists, solving problems together to deliver informative and influential analysis, and policy that is robust, effective and deliverable. Prior to joining Arup, Clare was analytical lead for the development of strategy and policy at TfL, including development of the Mayor’s transport strategy and measures to manage travel demand and traffic reduction policies such as congestion charging and road/emissions-based pricing.

This presentation will provide attendees with a better understanding of the context, and ways in which we can move beyond modal shift targets towards implementation and will draw on global best practice and offer considerations for transport industry professionals in enabling mode shift. What do we need to do differently, and what can we learn from best practice elsewhere? 

Debunking myths about emissions

Dr Sam Bailey - Director of Future Transport & CEO, Skyrad

Samuel Bailey is the Director of Future Transport and the CEO of Engineering Consultants Skyrad. He worked as a vehicle emissions specialist for several automotive manufacturers before starting Skyrad. Skyrad provides inventive solutions to problems, including that of urban transport. He is also the creator of the Yo-go buggy sharing scheme.

There’s a common misconception that cars are most efficient at around 50mph. This has historically driven a lot of road design, but it is in fact very, very wrong. In this talk we present the testing and modelling that shows that in urban environments most vehicles have the lowest CO2, fuel consumption and NOx emissions at a 15-20mph top speed. This presentation will show the effects of peak speeds on average journey times in traffic and how lower speeds can be enabling for alternative lower carbon forms of transport. 

The Mansfield Flood Alleviation scheme

Via East Midlands speaker TBC

More info TBC