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.
Sponsored by
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
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)
Infrastructure Asset Management
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
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
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
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
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
