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Issue 17 www.britpave.org.uk BRITPAVE® NEWS A NEW CONCRETE TRACK FOR BRISTOL MOTOR SPEEDWAY USA. Full story to follow in the next issue of Britpave News. 0HOTOCOURTESYOF"RISTOL-OTOR3PEEDWAY#)! DIARY DATES s "RITPAVE#ONFERENCETHTH3EPTEMBER 3TRATFORD UENCE TH TH 3EPTEMBER 3TRATFORD UPON !VONPON !VON s 2OAD%XPO3COTLANDTHTH.OVEMBER %DINBURGHTH TH .OVEMBER %DINBURGH Distributed to 10,000 readers! 2 Issue 17 WELCOME Contents Editors Note Dear Member, Page 2 Welcome Welcome to the 17th Edition of Britpave News. It has been a busy start to the year. Page 3 News Round Up There have been lots of exciting developments in all areas of Britpave activities and these have made for another informative newsletter. Thank you to all those who have contributed time Page 4 EUPAVE and effort. Without your help it wouldn’t be possible, so please keep your stories rolling in. Page 6 Britpave® I would like to extend a warm welcome to our new members. It’s always interesting to meet new organisations and hear what is going on within their businesses, and I Step Barrier look forward to successful partnerships with them. You will be pleased to know that preparations are well underway for the Britpave Annual Seminar on 29th and 30th of September, in Stratford-Upon-Avon, and we will shortly be issuing the programme. Page 11 Specialist You can also book your place using the form within the newsletter and as always I look Applications forward to seeing you all there. Best regards Page 12 Roads David Jones Page 14 Rail Director of Britpave Page 16 Soil Stabilisation Corrections Trade Marks Registered and Clarifications The trade marks Britpave® and Britpave Step Page 17 Sustainability Barrier® have been registered with the Trade It is the policy of Britpave to correct Marks Registry. This protects the use of these & Environment significant errors as soon as possible. words and makes it easier to defend what has Readers may contact the office on: become an important brand. People cannot [email protected]. use our trademarks without our express per- Page 18 Airfields mission. If someone deliberately uses our reg- Please quote the issue number and page. istered trade marks, without our knowledge or comment, they may be guilty of the crime 1) The article ‘Slipforming in Ireland’ was in- of counterfeiting. Page 22 New Members cluded in Issue 16 as a personal view of the market as seen by Power Slipformers. It was not intended to be seen as a definitive state- Britpave News is published regularly Page 24 Britpave ment of paving in the Irish Republic. The ad- by Britpave with the aim of keeping Seminar 2008 vertisement below the article can be con- members up to date on Association strued as misleading in that Ascon are not matters, industry developments and members of Britpave and have not paved Brit- member company news and views. pave Step Barrier®. Page 26 New from Britpave Please help keep us in the picture on all of this by sending us any relevant 2) As from this issue all advertisements will be information that you feel may be of marked as such as to clearly identify paid for interest to the membership. contribution Page 27 The Last Word… Disclaimer: All articles published in good faith. Britpave will not be held responsible for any errors, misinformation and opinions in articles submitted for this newsletter. www.britpave.org.uk 3 NEWSTOP HEADER ROUND UP Best Practice for Concrete Pavements in Highways and Airfields The First Britpave Technical Seminar was held in Central London on 4th June 2008 and over 80 people attended. It was pleasing to see such a wide cross-section of members represented. The organisations that attended were: s Airside InstallationsA Britpave Ltd s Lagan Construction s Atkins s Laing O’rourke Plc s Balfour Beatty s Morgan Est s Birse Civils Ltd s Mott MacDonald s Carillion plc s Mott MacDonald (Group HQ) s Castellan Group Ltd s MSC s Cemex s Private Individual S s Dublin Airport Authority s Roller Compacted Concrete Ltd s Edmund Nuttall ltd s RPS Burks Green s Fitzpatrick Contractors Ltd s Select Plant Hire s Halcrow Group Ltd s SIAC s Halcrow Yolles s Skanska Construction UK Ltd s Hanson Aggregates s Smith Construction s Hanson Premix (SW) s Tecroc Products Ltd s Highways Agency s The Concrete Centre 2ICHARD"ETTERIDGEn#ARILLION s Hyder Consulting s TPS Consult s Jacob Uk Ltd s TRL Ltd s Jacobs Engineering Group Ltd s WSP Group s JK Pavement Consulting s Defence Estates s Lafarge Aggregates Limited s Gill Civil Engineering The aim of the Seminar was to give civil engineers, contractors and designers a practical under- standing of how to achieve pavement quality concrete solutions in airfield and highways appli- cations. Some of the topics covered included design considerations, material options, managing trans- portation and delivering long-lasting, low maintenance solutions, all presented by industry ex- perts with “hands on“ experience. Britpave received a lot of positive feedback from attendees and the speakers are keen to run another event, so watch this space!!!!!! 0RESENTERSLEFTTORIGHTARE0ETER!BELn,AING/2OURKE !NDY$ELCHARn-ORGAN%ST *OHN&ERGUSONn'ILL#IVIL%NGINEERING 3TEVE0HIPPSn"ALFOUR"EATTY 2ICHARD"ETTERIDGEAND$AVID(ARRADINEn#ARILLION *OHN#OOKn$EFENCE%STATES 'RAHAM7OODMANn730'ROUP "ILL-OSS !TKINS'LOBALABSENTFROMPHOTO 4 Issue 17 EUPAVE’S STRUCTURE AAniicetto ZZaragoza Ramíreze (ES) PRESIDDENT David Joneson (UK) VICE-PRESIDENTE SSonjja BBrruuyyniinckkx (BE) MMARARRKETINGKETING & Jean-Pierre Jaco Ja oobsbs ((BE)BE) COMMMUNICAATIONTION MANAMANAGINGGING DIDIRRRECTORECTOR COOORRDINATOR BOBOARDARD OOFF DIREIRECTORSCTORS MEMBBERSERS www.britpave.org.uk 5 TOPEUPAVE HEADER GETS TO WORK Eupave, the European Concrete Paving Association, was formed in 2007 with the objective to promote all cement and concrete products within transport infrastructure markets. Britpave is one of the founder members of Eupave. Eupave draws its members from National associations and organisations, cement companies, specialist equipment companies and suppliers. Its Activity Areas are: !NICETO:ARAGOZA Sustainable Construction Roads Concrete Paving in Tunnels Heavy Duty Pavements for Ports and Industries Airfields Bus and Rail Urban Areas Soil Improvement and Stabilisation Base and Sub-base layers In-situ Pavement Recycling Concrete Paving Blocks, Flags and Other Precast Elements Safety Barriers *EAN 0IERRE*ACOBS Noise Reduction Devices Kerbs and Gutters Recent Lobbying Activity 3rd June - Reception in European Parliament As one of Eupave’s objectives is to become an influential body involved within European initia- tion and research program, an early meeting with MEP’s and Commissioners was arranged by Alonso Association on behalf of Eupave. At a reception and lunch, members of European Board gave short presentations to the guests, who welcomed the opportunity to meet and discuss -RS)NÏS!YALA3ENDER collaboration ideas. Short introductory speeches were given by European President Aniceto Zaragoza and it’s Managing Director Jean-Pierre Jacobs, Mrs Inés Ayala Sender (Spain) member of the Commission for Transport responded and David Jones - Vice President, summarised and closed the proceedings. Further meetings are planned. Those present from the Parliament and Commission were: s Mrs. Inés Ayala Sender (Spain), member of the Commission Transport in the European Parliament; s Mrs. Etelka Barsi-Pataky (Hungary), member of the Commission Transport in the European Parliament; s Mr David Catot, member of the Transport Committee -R0AWEL2OSICKIWITH$AVID*ONES s Mr Henri Malosse, President of Group I – Employer’s group at the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC); s Mr Alfonso Gonzalez Finat, Principal Advisor at the Directorate-General Transport & Energy (DG TREN) of the European Commission; Eupave is the s Mr Vicente Luque Cabal, Deputy Head of Unit Trans-European Transport Network Policy at the DG TREN of the European Commission; official organiser of the 11th internation s Mr Gordon Buhagiar, Permanent Representation Malta; Symposium on s Mr Jesus Izarzugaza, Permanent Representation Spain; Concrete Roads, to s Mr Pawel Rosicki, Permanent Representation Poland. be held in Seville in 2010. It has taken ownership from Cembureau who co-organised the Belgian edition of this Symposium together with Febelcem in Brussels in 2006. 6 Issue 17 BRITPAVE® STEP BARRIER New Research Dismisses Impact Injury Concerns New research has corrected the mistaken accident involving errant vehicles than in The resulting injury measurements were plot- belief that the robust resilience of con- those accidents where vehicles have been ted against ASI and THIV to determine safe crete safety barriers has the potential for contained. parameters. greater impact injury compared to other barrier types. In fact, reports David Jones, The majority of existing barriers on the UK’s The tests revealed that the difference between director of Britpave, the transport infra- roads are designed and tested to the N2 con- a high Class B (ASI 1.3-1.4) and a low Class C structure group, the impact injury poten- tainment standard, which means that they barrier (ASI 1.5-1.6) is negligible in terms of tial is no greater than for the steel barrier. are capable of containing a 1.5 tonne car. injury. In all crash tests where the THIV was Furthermore, concrete offers unrivalled However, out of all vehicles involved in cross- below the 33km/h EN1317 limit, the levels of safety benefits such as the containment over accidents, 76% were cars and over 90% injuries measured were below the tolerable of larger vehicles and the elimination of weighed less than 7.5 tonnes. The concrete thresholds for injury. the need to expose maintenance crews step barrier is designed and tested to the H2 to danger when repairing certain barrier containment standard, which means that it is As expected, the crash tests showed that the types. capable of containing vehicles of up to 13 risk of injury rises in correlation with the level tonnes in weight.