The LCRIG Innovation & Learning Festival 2024, held at the new location of Stoneleigh Park in Kenilworth, was a resounding success. This year's festival expanded its focus on learning, offering a range of CPD-certified technical training sessions and interactive workshops.
The event showcased innovation in highways maintenance and transport technology, bringing together the public and private sectors. It provided local authorities with the opportunity to connect with exhibitors and discover new innovations, products, and solutions to address their current and future challenges.
This year also saw the introduction of the LCRIG Start-Up Zone, which provided funded places for eligible small businesses and start-ups to demonstrate their cutting-edge products and solutions.
More than 600 delegates attended over the two days including 80 different highway authorities from across England, Scotland and Wales, as well as the Department for Transport (DfT), academia, industry associations, the supply chain and media.
Technical Director of Foster Contracting Ltd
Head of Business Development at Velocity UK Ltd
Sales Manager at Vaisala Ltd
Chief Executive at Local Council Roads Innovation Group
ITS & CAV Strategy Manager at Transport Scotland
Technical Manager - IKO Road at IKO Plc
Head of Highways Asset and Local Management Services at Lincolnshire County Council
Managing Director of Kaarbon Technology Ltd
Day 1 registration, exhibition and networking.
Location: Exhibition hall registration desks
Low Carbon Innovations in Oxfordshire
Learn about the innovative solutions implemented across Oxfordshire and lessons learnt from key innovation activities delivered over the last year including Wantage Layby ‘Living Lab’ project, a trial of graphene enhanced asphalt, and insights from a recent pothole trial.
Location: Technical Learning Theatre
Delivering Carbon and Cost Savings for Better Roads
Find out how pavement solutions can create substantial carbon savings as well as reduce the frequency of interventions. Learn the 8 main pavement failure mechanisms to help local authorities to form a brief for the correct type of pavement maintenance on their highway networks.
Location: Technical Learning Theatre
Asphalt Preservation - Time to change how we manage our road network
Learn about carbon inputs into different surfacing materials as well as the whole life cycle benefits of adopting asphalt preservation in delivering asset management strategies. Gain detailed knowledge of how to utilise asphalt preservation to maximise the benefit of each £ spent.
Location: Technical Learning Theatre
Incinerator Bottom Ash Aggregate: Aggregates in the circular economy
Find out how Bottom Ash Aggregate contributes to the circular economy, the product application and its benefits, which include CO2 savings, reduction in emissions, reduction in transport and avoidance of landfill.
Location: Technical Learning Theatre
Day 1 lunch, exhibition and networking.
Is there a future for Vehicle Activated Signs (VAS)?
Find out how VAS have developed from basic speed detection to intelligent detection and learn about new solutions available for local authorities to procure, giving increased benefits for road safety.
Location: Technical Learning Theatre
A Risk-Based Approach to Lining and Road Markings Maintenance
Tailored for municipal engineers, Maintenance planners, infrastructure managers, and manufacturers, the presentation introduces a risk-based maintenance strategy, emphasising safety and optimal resource utilisation to prolong the lifecycle of road assets and ensure compliance with regulations.
Location: Technical Learning Theatre
Contributing factors around the selection of portable and temporary systems
Discover how local authorities and traffic management companies can select the appropriate technology to minimise delays during junction improvements.
Location: Technical Learning Theatre
Optimise Winter Maintenance: IoT Weather Stations for Safer Roads
Explore how IoT weather technology is transforming winter maintenance operations, providing solutions to challenges faced by operators and enhancing road safety and operational efficiency.
Location: Technical Learning Theatre
Moving the Needle in Line Marking
Meon share the journey the industry is on regarding traditional methods of line marking and the transition to new innovative more sustainable Rapid-curing MMA solutions.
Location: Technical Learning Theatre
Predicting Crashes with Harsh Braking Data from Connected Vehicles
Discover the science behind harsh braking and the new tools available to understand high-risk areas.
Location: Technical Learning Theatre
Lifecycle Modelling for Highways
Specifically geared towards highways engineers, learn how data can be used to facilitate improved highways infrastructure and find out what lifecycle modelling is and why we use it.
Location: Technical Learning Theatre
Evening networking event, including live entertainment from acclaimed Queen tribute band, Supersonic Queen.
17:00 - Bar opens and networking event starts
18:00 - Food served
19.30 - Supersonic Queen
21.30 - Buses to pick up public sector delegates
Location: Evening Networking Hall
Day 2 registration, exhibition & networking.
Location: Exhibition hall registration desks
Mastic Asphalt and Gussasphalt for highways in the UK
Learn what Mastic Asphalt is and how it differs from other bituminous highways products. Find out about the application methods and the associated benefits to the highways sector.
Location: Technical Learning Theatre
Learn about the practical use of drone/UAV mapping for highways maintenance & monitoring.
This session covers the different types of drones/UAV’s, the legal flying requirements and data that can be created to support highways planning and maintenance.
Location: Technical Learning Theatre
A Joined-up Thinking Approach to Achieving Efficiencies Through Advancements in Highway Data Collection
Find out how advancements in artificial-intelligence and connected vehicle technologies have allowed for a more dynamic approach in collecting pavement condition and asset data across highway networks.
Location: Technical Learning Theatre
Discover Hydro International, an industry leading technology in remove pollutants from stormwater runoff, before discharge into natural SuDs, water courses, or public sewers.
Location: Technical Learning Theatre
Day 2 lunch, exhibition & networking.
Event closes.
Day 1 registration, exhibition and networking.
Location: Exhibition hall registration desks
KOREC will demonstrate a fixed wing and Multi rotor UAV, including general take off and landing.
Location: Demo Zone
Watch the award winning Pothole Pro in action, a unique 3 in 1 solution specifically designed to sort out any pothole repair or large reinstatement operations, efficiently, economically and permanently.
Location: Demo Zone
Day 1 lunch, exhibition and networking.
IKO will demonstrate the Pacopatch Ironwork Surround System.
Location: Demo Zone
Discover Meon’s innovative line marking machine.
Location: Demo Zone
Witness TfWM’s Autonomous Bus in action.
Location: Demo Zone
Evening networking event, including live entertainment from acclaimed Queen tribute band, Supersonic Queen.
17:00 - Bar opens and networking event starts
18:00 - Food served
19.30 - Supersonic Queen
21.30 - Buses to pick up public sector delegates
Location: Evening Networking Hall
Day 2 registration, exhibition & networking.
Location: Exhibition hall registration desks
Discover how drone technology can support with efficient response to E-Call Activation and witness HAAS Alert’s live ‘Digital Alerts’ powered by the HAAS Alert Safety Cloud.
Location: Demo Zone
Witness the world’s first autonomous pothole machine, ARRES PREVENT in action.
Location: Demo Zone
Day 2 lunch, exhibition & networking.
Event closes.
Day 1 registration, exhibition and networking.
Location: Exhibition hall registration desks
Bring your buying innovation problem.
In this interactive session featuring Jason Sprague, councils are encouraged to bring their Innovation buying problems. We know buying innovations can sometimes restrict what councils bring in. With Jason’s unique and practical experience, and facilitated by Paula Claytonsmith, councils will be invited to share ideas, frustrations and ways to procure to bring innovations into highways services.
Day 1 lunch, exhibition and networking.
In this informal talk, Richard Fenwick, Head of Highways Asset and Local Management Services at Lincolnshire County Council and Bill Manby, Head of Highways at East Riding of Yorkshire Council, will discuss the development of a new approach to pothole hierarchy.
Evening networking event, including live entertainment from acclaimed Queen tribute band, Supersonic Queen.
17:00 - Bar opens and networking event starts
18:00 - Food served
19.30 - Supersonic Queen
21.30 - Buses to pick up public sector delegates
Location: Evening Networking Hall
Day 2 registration, exhibition & networking.
Location: Exhibition hall registration desks
Innovation Challenge for the Sector How do we act collectively as a sector to encourage innovations for the future?
During this interactive debate, featuring members of the LCRIG Infrastructure Innovation Board, participants will be encouraged to look at what future innovations we should be encouraging the sector to develop, invest and “invent” for the future. This session will include brainstorming and discussion and will form part of a feature included in LCRIG’s new Innovation report and research.
Location: Innovation Think Pavilion
AI - Getting the best out of AI - What are the key things Councils should consider? Open to suppliers and councils. Find out some of the key things that councils need to consider to get the best out of AI during this facilitated and interactive session.
Event closes.
Day 1 registration, exhibition and networking
Location: Exhibition hall registration desks
Day 1 lunch, exhibition and networking.
Evening networking event, including live entertainment from acclaimed Queen tribute band, Supersonic Queen.
17:00 - Bar opens and networking event starts
18:00 - Food served
19.30 - Supersonic Queen
21.30 - Buses to pick up public sector delegates
Location: Evening Networking Hall
Day 2 registration, exhibition & networking.
Location: Exhibition hall registration desks
Day 2 lunch, exhibition and networking.
Event closes.
Stoneleigh Park
7 Eastgate
Stoneleigh Park
Kenilworth
CV8 2LG
Kenilworth, England, United Kingdom
For additional event or venue information, please send an email to charlotte.bromley@lcrig.org.uk
Birmingham City Council
Blackburn with Darwen Council
Blackpool Council
Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council
Brighton and Hove City Council
Buckinghamshire Council
Calderdale Council
Cambridgeshire County Council
Central Bedfordshire Council
Cheshire East Highways
Cheshire West and Chester Council
City of Doncaster Council
City of Wolverhampton Council
Clackmannanshire Council
Cornwall County Council
Cornwall Highways
Coventry City Council
Cumberland Council (Cumbria West)
Derby City Council
Derbyshire County Council
Devon County Council
Dorset Council
East Riding of Yorkshire Council
East Sussex County Council
Essex Highways
Gloucestershire County Council
Halton Borough Council
Herefordshire County Council
Hertfordshire County Council
Hull City Council
Kent County Council
Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council
Kirklees Council
Lancashire County Council
Leeds City Council
Leicester City Council
Leicestershire County Council
Lincolnshire County Council
Liverpool City Council
London Borough of Enfield
Luton Borough Council
Milton Keynes City Council
Norse Highways
North Somerset Council
North Yorkshire County Council
Northumberland County Council
Nottingham City Council
Nottinghamshire County Council
NY Highways
Oxfordshire County Council
Reading Borough Council
Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
Salford City Council
Sefton Council
Sheffield City Council
Shropshire Council
Somerset County Council
South Gloucestershire Council
Southend-on-Sea City Council
Staffordshire County Council
Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council
Stoke-on-Trent City Council
Surrey County Council
Telford and Wrekin Council
Thurrock Council
Transport for Greater Manchester (Combined Authority)
Via East Midlands Ltd
Warwickshire County Council
Welsh Government
West Berkshire Council
West Northamptonshire Council
West Sussex County Council
Westmorland & Furness Council
Wigan Council
Wiltshire Council
Wokingham Borough Council
Worcestershire county Council
2Rent UK Ltd
AISIN RoadTrace
Alchera Technologies Ltd
Arcadis
Archway Roadmaster UK Ltd
ARTSM (Association Road Traffic Safety and Management)
Asphalt Group Ltd
Asphalt-IQ Ltd
Ainsty Timber Marketing ATM
Better Futures
Blue Phoenix UK
Brightly Software Limited
Causeway Technologies
Chevron Traffic Management Ltd
Coeval Ltd
Connor Specialist Paving Ltd
University of Coventry
Eloy
Eurovia UK Ltd
Express Mobile Soil Testing
Fibenol
Foster Contracting Ltd
Gaist
Gautam ZEN UK LTD
GeoPlace
Glasdon UK Ltd
HAAS Alert
Highway Care Ltd
Huesker Ltd
Hydro International (UK) Ltd
IRSS UK
IHE (Institute Highway Engineers)
IKO Plc
iTip Safety Handles
JCB
Jenoptik
Kaarbon Technology Ltd
KERBED IT Limited
Kerbo Charge Ltd
Kiely Bros Ltd
Kier Transportation Limited
KL Systems Ltd
Korec Group
Loughborough University
Map16 Asset Management Ltd
Meon UK
Metrail Construction
Miles Macadam Limited
Milestone Infrastructure Ltd
MSF Ltd
Multevo Limited
NAL Ltd
ND Brown Limited
Nuphalt Contracting Ltd
NWSRG (National Winter Service Research Group)
ONO App LTD
PelicanCorp
Primary Engineer
Proteus Equipment Ltd
RedStag Materials
Re-Flow
Rennicks UK Limited
Rhino Asphalt Solutions
Roadmender Asphalt
Roadside Technologies Ltd
Robotiz3d
Route Reports Limited
RSMA (Road Safety Markings Association)
RSTA (Road Surface Treatments Association)
Saint Gobain PAM UK Ltd
Salford City College Group (SCC)
Simplifai Systems Limited
Solar Gates UK
South Cave Tractors Ltd
SRL Traffic Systems Ltd
Stabilised Pavements Ltd
StarTraq Limited
Harsco Metals Group Limited
Tarmac
Technical Civils Solutions Ltd
Tensar
Traffic Management Products Ltd
Trojan Energy Ltd
Truvelo (UK) Ltd
University of Birmingham
Vaisala Ltd
Velocity UK Ltd
Westcotec
WJ Group
WMCA
Wrekin Products Ltd
XAIS-PTS Limited
The LCRIG Innovation and Learning Festival showcases innovation and collaborative learning in highways maintenance and transport technology.
The event brings public and private sector together, providing an opportunity for local authorities to connect with exhibitors and find out about new innovations, products and solutions that will help to meet their current and future challenges.