News

2010

September 2010

IHE Signs Structures Guide 2010

available at 23 September Signs Conference. Book now.

IEng top tips

Listen to Rachel Langfield explain the benefits of IEng registration.

New BTEC/Edexcel HNCs

HNCs are worth less from September 2010: Credit value now 125 (previously 150)

What qualifications do I need?

A quick guide to what you're qualified to access.

Update Highway Law?

Log your suggestions for change here and copy in IHE. See Planning Officers society wish-list.

Audit Commission

To help LAs decide maintenance priorities.

Design and Maintenance Guidance

DfT wants yours! Please complete the on-line survey.

Biodiversity Toolkit Pilot

The Biodiversity Planning Toolkit is a new versatile online resource - aimed at helping users to incorporate biodiversity into planning system and new development.

Test out the Beta version.

Skills for sustainable growth

A BIS consultation.

2012 Olympics

Health and Safety learning legacy - free resources.

Data.gov.uk

Suggest government datasets you want made available. Check out the transport and weather data already on.

August 2010

Flood Risk

Defra/EA announce skills strategy, forthcoming information portal and £2M fund. See Mayer Brown's development.

IHE Traffic Signs and Signals

Professional Certificates procedures updated.

When visiting IHE...

Visit Holborn's 'countdown' pedestrian crossing.

Big Society:

Vanguard LAs vote how to spend budgets.

Site Safety on new developments

A code of conduct from NE housebuilders and utilities.

Essex Development Management Policies

View and comment (30 August).

Rural Roads and forums

View IHE's latest ideas page.

www.highwayengineer.co.uk

www.highwayengineer.co.uk is Sanderson's new website about what our engineers do.

July 2010

2010 Awards of Merit

The award was presented to Chris Saunders and John Dymott.

IHE 2010 Annual meeting

Read about the 2010 annual meeting.

Traffic Signs Manual

A questionnaire for users of Traffic Signs Manual (TSM) chapters. These chapters are currently sold by TSO as printed books and available for free of charge on the DfT website. We are now looking at other, priced, electronic options for TSM chapters (in addition to free PDFs) and are seeking your views.

Please click here.

Closing date 16 July 2010.

Winter Resilience Review

Winter Resilience Review: Interim Report on coping with severe weather.

Infrastructure 2010 report

Read ICE's State of the Nation: Infrastructure 2010 report.

UK Roads Board

TRO advertising: UK Roads Board wants your views. (31/08/2010)

Cycle safety mirrors

Cycle safety mirrors to be mounted on London's traffic signals.

Planning Inspectorate

Major Infrastructure Planning Unit within the Planning Inspectorate replaces IPC.

TfL and motorcycles

TfL uncertain on motorcycles in bus lanes.

DfT benchmarking tool

DfT benchmarking tool for LAs to compare their performance.

IGEM

IGEM's draft standards for trenchless construction.

Road Safety Knowledge Centre

The Road Safety Knowledge Centre wants your reports, research, campaigns.

Road Casualties OnLine

roadcasualtiesonline: new DfT statistics site.

2010 Casualty figures

Figures show a drop - will it last?

EuroRAP

EuroRaps Annual benchmark survey of A Roads published.

Local Design Standards

andy.wooley@atkinsglobal.com wants good examples for a DfT reference site.

Shared Space

GuideDogs and RBKC compromise on Exhibition Road shared space.

June 2010

IHE President's Blog

Follow our new President Steve Spender in his blog.

IHE Employer of the Year

Nominate your employer.

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HCA Accredits IHE

HCA accredits IHE's Development Management training.

Red R's 'rat race'

Join in Red R's 'rate race urban adventure series'.

Technician Council

Launched by Engineering Council.

IHE Job Vacancy

Marketing and Course Manager - to cover for Sandy Lopes' maternity leave from 16 August 2010 for 21-28 hours per week.

Asset Management

Keep up with Asset Management.

Designing safer roadsides

A handbook from Passive Safety.

Burden's Roadshows

Keep up at the Burden's Innovation Roadshows.

Quarmby Winter Resiliance

Read IHE evidence to the review.

NAL

Book a day at NAL's purpose built demonstration site.

Professional Review

View the latest results.

Road Safety Audit Register

View the Registrants here.

IHE East Midlands

IHE Nottingham centre.

Shared Space Advice

GuideDogs Guidelines for shared space.

May 2010

Flood & Water Management Act

Read report of IHE's April seminar

Local Transport Today

£67 pa to IHE members

Certificate of Competence in Road Safety Engineering

Launched by TMS as part of 2 week ROSPA course

Delineators for disabled

Read the latest PAMELA research compiled for TfL

Surface Water Management Plans (SWMPs)

Defra guidance published

Infrastructure Asset Management

CIPFA code published

Car Club

Revised guidance for local authorities

John Nightingale FIHE profiled in TEC April 2010

Safety boots designed for women now available

Click here for more information

IHE has joined the World Roads Association

Click here for more information

Steve Spender, incoming IHE President,

now chairs the UK Footway group and joins the UK Roads Board

April 2010

New Technician Council

welcomed by Engineering Council

Scotland Transport Committee report published

Read and view IHE's evidence

Scotland's Designing Streets

is now published click here for more information

Network rail calls for tougher action on level crossing misuse

Read the full press release here

DfT also consulting on:

Inspection fees and charges for overrunning roadworks.

DCLG announces Policy Planning Statements

PPS5, PPS25 and supplements.

DIY Streets

Community led low cost safer streets? See SUSTRANS' report on 12 pilots.

New Red Book consultation on safety at roadworks

The changes will apply to LAs as well as contractors.

Complete the IEng survey by 15th April

Click here to complete

Skills shortages

New reports on National Skills, Apprenticeships and the recession.

Join the transport professionals' General Election debate

Transport Debate 2010 is a platform for everyone involved in the transport sector to join the national transport debate.
Click here to get involved.

Watford Gap - The Musical

Click here to see the show

Highway Inspectors

Leicestershire CC will submit their recommendations in April on standards for training and certification

Take part in "I'm a scientist, get me out of here!"

Talk to school students, answer their questions.

March 2010

Atlas

Guidance on dealing with stalled developments.

Designing safer roadsides

Designing safer roadsides course launches Passive Safety Guidelines.

Speed limits review

HGV and bus speed limits review

Sustainable Travel

The Effects of Smarter Choice Programmes in the Sustainable Travel Towns: Summary report. February 2010

LTP3s

How to feed sustainable travel packages into LTP3s. (DfT)

STATS19

STATS19 problems highlighted in Reported Road Casualties 2008.

Well Maintained Highways

is a living document. Updates are published regularly.

Essex CC

has commuted sums guidance out for consultation.

Snow Summit from Essex CC on 24 March.

Holiday lets

IHE members have holiday homes or rooms in Norfolk and Austria.

Checkout IHE's Parking Page

View presentations from Essex and Kent, Scotlands new policy and Dorset launch.

February 2010

PPS4

Published 20 December 2009 replaces PPG4, DPG5, PPS6 and aspects of PPS7. Policy EC8 requires maximum parking standards for non-residential developments.

Car Club

Car Club implementation: free spring seminars from CarPlus

Transport data

Now widely available at www.data.gov.uk

DfT's consultation TSRG

Read IHE's response to the DfT's consultation on 2010 amendments to the TSRGD

TRL and Savoy

Have launched new software linking Autotrack and ARCADY to reduce the time to design roundabouts.

TEC December 2009

Included a couple of helpful articles on 'forgiving roads' for motorcylcing.

Creating healthy environments

Is a toolkit prepeared for Scottish local authorities to improve walkability

Exhibition Road

The Exhibition Road shared space scheme has passed its safety audit. A GuideDogs challenge failed in the High Court, but they have not given up the campaign. (LTT 535)

20mph zones

DfT has proposed amending its guidance to allow 20mph zones without traffic calming measures. (Responses by 5 February.)

Making a smarter choice

is a new publication from Act Travelwise and IHT. A series of factsheets will follow.

Retrofitting surface water management measures

Contribute to CIRIA guidance (5 March). CIRIA also has courses on designing SUDS.

DfT guidance

DfT guidance on Permit schemes for Streetworks.

North Review of Drink and Drug Driving Law invites news link.

DfT's Good Practice Guide

For Councils and utilities advises on how better to comunicate about streetworks and offers greater control over works. Utility fines are increased to £25,000 maximum daily charge and lane rental is proposed for busy roads.

Big Bang Science and Engineering Fair

Saturday 13 March 2010 open to the public. Come and visit the fair, which is being held in Manchester this year.

Urban engineering with design & management of the Public Realm:

2010 course dates.

IHE Scotland

View evidence to Scottish Parliament on sustainable travel.

Shared Space

UCL research on the effectiveness of delineators has found that the traditional warning corduroy tactile is the best performing of the delineator profiles being tested on its PAMELA simulator.

IHE Alert:

  • SUDS compulsory in new developments "where practicable"
  • Counties and Unitaries required to adopt and maintain SUDS
  • Under the Flood and Water Management Bill from 2011. Find out more at IHE's special seminar.

January 2010

Road Sign Art

An exciting new art project involving Margaret Calvert, celebrated as the co-designer of our iconic system of road signs, has been facilitated by Buchanan Computing using SignPlot software.
Visit the exhibition at the A Foundation Gallery in Arnold Circus, London E2 between 15th and 24th January 2010.

TSRGD (Amendments) 2010

Read IHE's response

Earthquake reconnaissance reports over last 25 years released

Cambridge City SUDS guidance published

Inclusive Design

I'DGO guidance based on older people's preference.

Switching off London Traffic Signals?

Local speed proposals

A proposed revision to the Department's advice on setting local speed limits.

View DfT's consultation (December 2009).

CSCS card changes

CSCS changes cards for Managers and Professionals.

Maintain your CPD: Book one IHE event HALF PRICE in 2010

We know times are hard, so to help you maintain your expertise, IHE members can choose a one day course or conference to attend in 2010 at 50% off.

Upgrade with the New improved Professional Review in 2010

The revised procedures combine the report and evidence summary forms into 16 Professional Development forms and a summarised project to present at interview.

IHE launch

Read about the launch of IHE, kindly sponsored by Amey.

Happy New Year 2010 from IHE