Learn with LCRIG
With just two weeks to go before the Innovation & Learning Festival, LCRIG have also published the event guide to help visitors plan there visit. The guide features useful information including the attendee list, agenda, directions, hotel information and so on. You can find out more about the live demonstrations that will be taking place […]
LCRIG Chief Executive praises collaboration between public and private sector at Innovation Festival
Paula Claytonsmith, the new Chief Executive of the Local Council Roads Innovation Group (LCRIG), has described last week’s LCRIG Innovation Festival as a ”wonderful example of collaboration between the public and private sector”. More than 600 people attended the two-day event which took place at Newark Showground – including more than 200 local authority delegates […]
Eurovia and partners win Innovation Festival Collaborative Award
Eurovia UK, Hertfordshire County Council and Highway Data Systems (HDS), supported by key Supply Chain partners, Clee Hill Plant Ltd, DE Plant, BSP-TEX and Pavemac, have won the Collaborative Innovation Award at this year’s LCRIG Innovation festival. The award recognises a collective innovative product, service or practice that has driven or can demonstrate a collaborative […]
Innovation Festival hears advice on introducing new ideas
The UK’s highways and transport innovators will need to look beyond their own industries and adapt them for our needs in order to maximise the use of technology in the future of traffic management. That’s the advice of Darren Capes, Intelligent Transport Systems Policy Lead at the Department for Transport, speaking during a panel debate […]
A tour around the LCRIG Innovation Festival on this week’s Highways Voices
“I can see this event can see this practically being the whole show ground at some point,,” comments new LCRIG CEO Paula Claytonsmith on today’s Highways Voices podcast, as she reflects on the success of the second Innovation Festival in Newark. Subscribe to Highways Voices free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts or Pocket Casts and never miss an episode! […]
Kiely Bros showcases Multipatcher and Glassmark solutions at Innovation Festival
The family-owned surface treatment solutions business Kiely Bros will show off brand new solutions for repairing potholes and surfacing during the LCRIG Innovation Festival in Newark this week. The new Multipatcher machine enables a single driver to patch, seal, and repair damaged roads without the need for additional personnel. Featuring a remotely operated patching boom […]
Looking ahead to Highways UK, the Innovation Festival and JCT Symposium on this week’s Highways Voices
Ten thousand visitors, around 300 speakers and nearly 250 exhibitors are expected at Highways UK in October, and with that many people involved, we need to know more about it. So this week on Highways Voices, we catch up with Highways UK’s Senior Conference Producer Claudia Davidson who tells us all about the ever-growing event […]
Multevo win LCRIG Innovation Festival fleet category with low carbon innovation
Multevo showcased its ultra-low emission dual-fuel highway maintenance machine at the recent LCRIG Innovation Festival, winning the category for Fleet & Equipment. The event which took place on the 6th and 7th of July, featured several live demonstrations of different innovations across the highways sector and attracted over 60 different local authorities. Judged by local […]
