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About Us

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.

  • Learn about the IHE. IHE membership formally recognises your qualifications and industry experience.

  • 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.

IHE Membership

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.

Professional Registration

Becoming a professionally registered engineer demonstrates your high standard of competence and commitment. By choosing to register, you set yourself apart as an engineer with high standards and also demonstrate your commitment to maintain that competence in the future.

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.

Work with us

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

Resources

We administer the registers for Highway Inspectors and Road Safety Auditors as well as manage our active forums contributed to by highways professionals.

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Why join the IHE?

Membership

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

Professional Registration

Professional registration can increase your earnings potential, improve your career prospects and attain industry recognition for your years of experience, expertise and hard work.

Training & Qualifications

Our mission is to provide professional development opportunities, support and leadership for individuals to achieve and maintain professional recognition

Training & Events

  • Winter Services Decision Making

    • Wed 29 Nov 2023

    MORE DATES AVAILABLE The only accredited UK course for Winter Services Decision Makers and Managers. This course delivers learning across a wide range of subjects necessary for Winter Service Professionals and enables individuals to demonstrate competence.

  • Pathways to Inclusive Innovation

    • Thu 30 Nov 2023

    In partnership with Innovate UK, the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAENG) are delighted to host a unique event bringing together small and medium sized organisations to explore pathways to inclusive innovation that can help to unlock talent within their organisation. RAENG are offering 10 free places for IHE members.

  • Online: Digital Vehicular Surface Conditioning Monitoring

    • Tue 05 Dec 2023

    The IHE Scotland Branch would like to invite you to their next CPD event on Tuesday 5th December 2023. Measuring Pothole, Cracking and Rut Depth at traffic speeds - How the proposed new Road Condition Monitoring standard could adopt this.

  • Online: Tree costs and financing options

    • Wed 13 Dec 2023

    Our Professional Development Partner TDAG would like to invite you to this online seminar on Wednesday 13th December 2023.

  • Temporary Traffic Management (Certificate)

    • Tue 09 Jan 2024

    MORE DATES AND LOCATIONS AVAILABLE The only UK course specifically for temporary traffic management designers, engineers and practitioners working in the planning and design of temporary traffic management situations on highways. This course provides an industry benchmark and the Certificate has received endorsement from National Highways.

  • Temporary Traffic Management (Diploma)

    • Mon 22 Jan 2024

    The Professional Diploma at Intermediate level (QCF 4/5) is offered as part of the Institute of Highway Engineers Highway Academy programme and is aimed to develop the highway engineering knowledge of the individual so they can exercise engineering judgement on behalf of their employer at temporary traffic situations.

  • Online: Innovation and Ideas in Action

    • Mon 22 Jan 2024

    This presentation will describe some of Clearview Intelligence's latest innovations in ITS, and will discuss a selection of case studies where they have combined a number of technologies to deliver a range of unique schemes across the UK.

  • Online: Active Travel - Planning & Design

    • Tue 23 Jan 2024

    This course provides delegates with the information and skills to develop designs for walking and cycling infrastructure within the UK regulatory framework. The Department for Transport Cycle Proofing Working Group has listed the IHE Professional Certificate & Diploma in Active Travel as an acknowledged product for engineers planning and designing active travel infrastructure.

  • Highway Law: Principles and Practice

    • Wed 24 Jan 2024

    This one day course is intended to deliver a broad understanding of the law on Highways (in theory and practice) principally for highway engineers but also for anyone requiring additional knowledge of this area of law.

  • Traffic Signal Control - From Design to Implementation

    • Mon 05 Feb 2024

    This course is for managers, engineers and technicians involved in the management, design or implementation of traffic control systems. The course is organised by IHE in conjunction with major UK industry players and complements the JCT Consultancy training programme.

  • Transport Development Management

    • Tue 20 Feb 2024

    IHE’s Transport Development Management course is the only one in the UK designed specifically for transport practitioners working in Development Management roles and leads to the IHE Professional Certificate/Diploma in DM.

  • Engineering Technician/ICT Technician Workshops

    • Wed 21 Feb 2024

    Are you planning to submit your Engineering Technician/ICT Technician registration application later this year? Perhaps you have been struggling to find the time to assemble your submission or maybe you are simply unsure how to make that all important start. If so, then help is at hand with the IHE EngTech/ICT Technician workshops.

  • Online: Introduction to ITS Course

    • Tue 27 Feb 2024

    This 2 day course aims to provide an introduction to ITS outlining an understanding of the principles of the use of ITS and also provide confidence on the principles and practices of it’s deployment.

  • Temporary Traffic Management (Certificate) - Scottish Roads Law

    • Tue 05 Mar 2024

    The only course specifically designed for temporary traffic management designers, engineers and practitioners working in the planning and design of temporary situations on Scottish roads.

  • Bridges 2024

    • Wed 13 Mar 2024

    The annual Bridges conference and exhibition is the leading event for bridge owners and operators in the UK will take place on 13th-14th March at the Coventry Building Society Arena.

  • Traffic Signing and Road Markings

    • Tue 23 Apr 2024

    This 4-day course provides both a theoretical foundation and practical experience in the design and implementation of traffic signing and road marking schemes.  It contains an introduction to the subject, but takes the concepts through to experienced practitioner level.

  • Traffex | Parkex 2024

    • Wed 22 May 2024

    Traffex, the UK's leading road and highways tradeshow is taking place at the CBS Arena for two days of inspirational content, networking and product discovery.

  • LCRIG Innovation and Learning Festival

    • Mon 01 Jul 2024

    Next year, the LCRIG Innovation and Learning Festival will return from 01-03 July 2024, but with some exciting changes including a brand new location!

  • Strictly Highways 2024

    • Tue 01 Oct 2024

    Strictly Highways will return to its ancestral home at the iconic Winter Gardens in Blackpool, from 01-03 October 2024.

  • Online: Asphalt for Highways and Other Paved Areas

    This online course is designed to provide an invaluable understanding of asphalt technology. The confusing range of UK surface course asphalts have characteristics which make them suitable for specific uses.

  • Transport Network Resilience

    This new two day residential course is intended for highway professionals including the supply chain to provide best practice in carrying out the tactical level role of coordination during a major incident.

Events


Courses

Find your local branch

IHE Branches are run by members for members.

They’re found in every region of the United Kingdom.  Our branches are led by an elected committee of IHE members who run regional activities such as site visits, CPD seminars, technical meetings and social events.

Scotland

The area the branch covers is the entire area of Scotland.

Contact information

scotland@theihe.org

Northern

The area the branch covers .

Contact information

northern@theihe.org

Yorkshire & Humber

The area the branch covers includes the entire area of Yorkshire and Humber. Major towns and cities include Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford, Whitby, Scarborough, Hull, Grimsby and Richmond.

Contact information

web@theihe.org

North Western

The North Western Branch has been re-established. Please contact us if you’d like to help with new branch activities.

Email: north_west@theihe.org

East Midlands

The branch covers the area within the East Midlands. Major towns and cities include Derby, Leicester, Nottingham, Chesterfield, Lincoln, Buxton and Gainsborough.

Contact information

east_midlands@theihe.org

Mercia

The area the branch covers stretches from Stoke-on-Trent in the far north, to Stroud and Gloucester in the south. Major towns and cities include Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Coventry, Telford, Stafford, Stoke, Gloucester and Worcester.

Contact information

mercia@theihe.org

North Wales

We are hoping to re-establish this branch.  Please contact us if you’d like to help with new branch activities.

The area the branch covers includes Counties north of Carmarthenshire. Major towns and cities include Llandudno, Wrexham, Holyhead, Porthmadog, Newtown, Welshpool and Llangollen.

Contact information

web@theihe.org

South Wales

We are hoping to re-establish this branch. Please contact us if you’d like to help with new branch activities.

Email: web@theihe.org

Chilterns

We are hoping to re-establish this branch. Please contact us if you’d like to help with new branch activities.

Email: web@theihe.org

Eastern

The area the branch covers includes counties within East Anglia. Major towns and cities include Norwich, Ipswich, Colchester, Cambridge and King’s Lynn.

Contact information

web@theihe.org

South Eastern

We are hoping to re-establish this branch. Please contact us if you’d like to help with new branch activities.

Email: web@theihe.org

Southern

The area the branch covers includes the central southern area of England. Major towns and cities include Southampton, Worthing, Winchester, Woking, Guildford, Andover and Reading.

Contact information

southern@theihe.org

South Western

The area the branch covers includes the entire south west of England. Major towns and cities include Torquay, Bournemouth, Weymouth, Chippenham, Newquay and Penzance.

Contact information

south_western@theihe.org

Greater London

The area the branch covers is the entire area of Greater London

Contact information

Email: greater_london@theihe.org

Northern Ireland

The area the branch covers is the entire area of Northern Ireland.

Contact information

web@theihe.org

Middle East

This Branch covers all areas in the middle east including Qatar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman.

Contact information

middle_east@theihe.org
www.theihe.org/middle-east-branch

Developing Closer Cooperation

Professional Development Partners

A New Winter Approach   Applied Driving Techniques   BEAR Scotland   Buchanan Computing   Clearview Intelligence   Core Highways   Connected Safety Net Ltd
 
Gaist   ITS UK   ITS Now   Jacobs   JCT Consultancy     LGTAG
 
Local Transport Projects   Milestone Infrastructure Logo   NAL Logo   Road Emulsion Association Ltd   RSTA Logo   Telford and Wrekin Logo   Tensar    
 
Transoft Solutions   Trees and Design Action Group Trust   Viaem   Waterman Aspen   WJ Logo            

 

Academic Partners

  London South Bank University   Nottingham Trent University   University of Trinidad and Tobago

 

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.