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Our vision is to be the Institute of Choice for Highway Engineers. Our mission is to provide professional development opportunities, support and leadership for individuals to achieve and maintain professional recognition.

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  • We’ve been registering engineers and technicians with the Engineering Council since 1972 and accrediting academic courses since 1989. We’re proud of our long history and provide our members with 50 plus years of highways experience.

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Join us and demonstrate your technical skills, qualifications and expertise to clients and employers. We offer membership types for highways professionals at every stage of their career.

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Academy Training

The IHE Highway Engineering Academy offers industry-led training in highway engineering. Through one of our specialist training courses leading to an industry-recognised Professional Certificate or Diploma, the HEA delivers the qualifications, skills and knowledge demanded by the highways industry which are in short supply today.

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Professional Development Partnerships are open to Highways Sector businesses, Local Government Authorities, Academic Institutions, Professional Engineering Institutes and other Highways interest based organisations.

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The Institute is committed to sharing knowledge and promoting best practice across the profession, helping members and the wider highways community develop their skills, broaden their understanding and stay informed on key industry developments.

Events

IHE Branch Event

The National Road Survey of Northern Ireland

  • CPD Value: This event is allocated 1 CPD hour
Dates Location Cost (ex VAT)
Tue 31 Mar 2026 Seagoe Hotel, 22 Upper Church Lane, Portadown, BT63 5JE FREE TO MEMBERS AND NON MEMBERS Book now

Full Details

Times:
Finger buffet Lunch at 12.00 – 12.30pm
Presentation at 12.30 – 1.30pm
 
Speaker: Steve Birdsall, CEO, Gaist
 
This presentation hosted by the IHE Northern Ireland Branch will provide an inside look at the national road condition survey being delivered by Gaist for the Department for Infrastructure in Northern Ireland. It will explore how advanced surveying technology, machine vision and structured data analytics are being deployed at scale to create a consistent, defensible and repeatable evidence base for network condition.
 
The presentation will explain how the survey is undertaken, how data quality and governance are assured and how outputs are transformed into actionable intelligence for asset management and investment planning. Attendees will gain insight into the operational challenges of surveying an entire national network, the importance of standardisation and transparency and how high-quality condition data underpins smarter, risk-based infrastructure decisions.  
 
You must register to attend. 

Join the Institute of Choice for Highway Engineers

IHE membership formally recognises your qualifications and industry experience. Join us and demonstrate your technical skills, qualifications and expertise to clients and employers.