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Type
Lecture

Keeping road maintenance green

Event organised by ICE

Date
09 October 2024
Time
07:30 - 09:00 BST (GMT+1)
Location
Shire Hall
High West Street
Dorchester
Dorset, DT1 1UY
United Kingdom

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Overview

The RSTA is a sector wide community of resources that provides technical support and training, with an aim to raise awareness of the range and benefits of road surface treatments, to help our sector maintain the UKs greatest asset.

This presentation will identify types of surface treatments. When and why we apply them, and what they achieve. This will include early life preventative treatments to include preservation/rejuvenation, surface dressing, retexturing and microasphalt.

This will also include alternative methods of road reconstruction to end of life roads, through in-situ recycling.

Whilst these treatments offer better value for money through a longer-term maintenance strategy, we can also demonstrate significant carbon savings, supporting our carbon reduction savings towards achieving net zero by 2035.

Misunderstandings or misconceptions exist within the industry in relation to some of these treatments which may be preventing authorities adopting these treatments, and the presentation aims to address these through shared experiences and documented case studies.

Programme

07:30 - 07:45
Doors open
07:45 - 08:30
Presentation
08:30 - 09:00
Refreshments

Speaker

Mike Hansford

Mike Hansford

Road Surface Treatment Association (RSTA)

chief executive officer

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Mike Hansford

Mike Hansford, CEO of the Road Surface Treatments Association Ltd (RSTA), formerly highways asset management team leader at Dorset Council.

Mike has worked for Dorset Council (Dorset County Council prior to 2019) for 29 years of which approximately 25 have been in highways. He has occupied a lead role as highways asset management team leader of a team that includes strategic asset management, asset group lead/client role for carriageways, footways, drainage, signing and road markings, whilst overseeing the design team for a £20million+ structural maintenance programme, performance and benchmarking, and highways systems.

Mike's background is one of highways systems and condition data, streetworks, highways enforcement, routine maintenance, structural maintenance, and for over ten years now occupying a leading role in highways asset management.

Mike has been chair of the South West Regional Asset Management Group for the past five years, and for the same duration has sat on the UKRLG Asset Management Board. Their highway maintenance strategies in Dorset have gained recognition as good practice and have supported both service and council priorities and outcomes.