Conference Programme :: Efficiency

Conference Programme

Time
8:50	Registration, Refreshments and Exhibition Viewing
9:55	Morning Chair Mike Bordiss, Independent Consultant, Chair of HELG
10:00	Inside the Highways Agency's Procurement Strategy Outlining the main themes of the new strategy Supply chain management for delivery and value David Poole Procurement Director Highways Agency
10:20	National Improvement and Efficiency Partnership for Construction Andrew Smith Chief Executive Hampshire County Council
10:40	Securing Improvement and Efficiency in Local Transport Projects being taken forward by the RIEPs with DfT funding The DfT's wider strategy for engaging with local authorities and building capability Phil Killingley Department for Transport
11:00	Morning Refreshments and Exhibition Viewing
Case Studies:
11:30	Case Study: Delivering Highway Efficiencies in Gloucestershire Graham Wanless Business Manager Gloucestershire Highways
11:50	The Midlands Highway Alliance's Medium Schemes Framework 1 - a Collaborative Contract Outlining the MHA and its aims Using collaboration in highways procurement to generate best practise and efficiencies Establishing a new contract to meet all LA delivery needs Responding to "fiscal stimulus" - the Highways Agency's local interim solution Mark Stevens Assistant Director (Highways) Leicestershire County Council and David Holt Highways Agency
12:10	Panel Questions
12:20	Lunch and Exhibition Viewing
13:50	Afternoon Chair Matthew Lugg Chair of CSS Engineering Committee
13:55	RIEP the Benefits! Shared contracts - regional collaboration on Professional Services to reduce procurement costs and provide high levels of service to all. Managing Assets - developing a common theme for Asset Valuation across the region. Performance management - learning from sharing experience. Training and development - joint approach to developing competence Stuart Reynolds Assistant Director Hampshire County Council
14:15	Driving forward with Lean Improvement Derek Drysdale Divisional Director, Technical Services Highways Agency
14:35	The National Highways and Transport (NHT) Survey - Public Views Driving Improvements Understanding the issues the paying public have with our highway and transport services and how this varies from service to service and place to place A three dimensional performance appraisal: How do those public views stack up against quality and cost measures - the 'three legged stool' The NHT Network - helping NHT survey participants (and the sector generally) use this information to deliver better services in difficult economic circumstances (linking with comprehensive area assessment, place shaping and the Regional Improvement and Efficiency agenda) Peter Radford Bridge Manager Somerset County Council
14:55	Afternoon Refreshments and Exhibition Viewing
15:25	Case Study: Asset Management and the Westminster Experience David Yeoell Head of Engineering and Transportation Projects, Westminster City Council
15:45	Efficiency and Street Lighting - Invest to Save Stuart Bulmer Technical Director - Highway Lighting URS Corporation Ltd. UK Lighting Board
16:05	Panel Questions
16:15	Chair's Summation and Close of Conference

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