Best Practice for Concrete Pavements in Highways and Airfields

The First Britpave Technical Seminar was held in Central London on 4th June 2008 and around 80 people attended. It was pleasing to see many younger delegates in the audience.

The organisations that attended were:

• Airside Installations Ltd
  
• Atkins
  
• Balfour Beatty
  
• Birse Civils Ltd
  
• Carillion plc
  
• Castellan Group Ltd
  
• Cemex
  
• Dublin Airport Authority
  
• Edmund Nuttall ltd
  
• Fitzpatrick Contractors Ltd
  
• Halcrow Group Ltd
  
• Halcrow Yolles
  
• Hanson Aggregates
  
• Hanson Premix (SW)
  
• Highways Agency
  
• Hyder Consulting
  
• Jacob Uk Ltd
  
• Jacobs Engineering Group Ltd
  
• JK Pavement Consulting
  
• Lafarge Aggregates Limited
  
• Lagan Construction
• Laing O'rourke Plc
  
• Morgan Est
  
• Mott MacDonald
  
• Mott MacDonald (Group HQ)
  
• MSC
  
• Private Individual S
  
• Roller Compacted Concrete Ltd
  
• RPS Burks Green
  
• Select Plant Hire
  
• SIAC
  
• Skanska Construction UK Ltd
  
• Smith Construction
  
• Tecroc Products Ltd
  
• The Concrete Centre
  
• TPS Consult
  
• TRL Ltd
  
• WSP Group
  
• Defence Estates
• Gill Civil Engineering
  

The aim of the Seminar was to give civil engineers, contractors and designers a practical understanding of how to achieve pavement quality concrete solutions in airfield and highways applications.

Some of the topics covered included design considerations, material options, managing transportation and delivering long-lasting, low maintenance solutions, all presented by industry experts with “hands on“ experience.

Britpave received a lot of positive feedback from attendees and the speakers are keen to run another event, so watch this space!!!!