Now in its 16th year, the Annual Surveyor Highway Maintenance Conference remains the industry’s trusted source to arm highway practitioners, and features contemporary insights and practical advice vital to maintaining our essential transport infrastructure more efficiently.
The recent annual ALARM survey highlighted the estimated road maintenance backlog figure has risen from £10.5bn last year to £12bn this year. The call for more longer term, up-front investment needs to be addressed further as does the issue of how more frequent extreme weather is affecting the road network.
All this means local authorities will have to continue to find new ways of being more efficient and implementing programmes that will see the road network becoming more resilient to ongoing challenges such as extreme weather.
The frequency and volume of flooding is having a severe effect on UK roads and their rate of deterioration since the first extreme floods took place in 2007. Highway Maintenance will consider the development of SUDS within local authority areas and take a more holistic look at flooding on the road network. There will be a focus on how councils are currently tackling the challenge severe flooding presents, as well as considering how implementing strategies now will make them more resilient in the future.
