Sustainable Highways Management Innovation & Best Practice Forum

Brian Kent - National Technical Director, Tarmac

With over 30 years experience in the construction industry, Brian began his career with an independent materials testing consultant in 1987 before moving into Local Authority employment specialising in Materials Technology and Quality Assurance. Following his formative years, Brian has spent the bulk of his career occupying various senior Technical and Commercial positions within the Operational and Contracting arms of Tarmac and now occupies the position of National Technical Director. As well as formulating and overseeing national technical strategy development and implementation, Brian also leads a team of specialists focusing on process and product R&D, solution innovation and industry challenges.

In addition, Brian is also the current chairman of the MPA Asphalt Product Committee, a member of the PR steering group for the Asphalt Industry Alliance, an industry representative on the National Highways Pavement Optimisation Group and sits on the EAPA Executive Committee, therefore is well versed on current industry challenges and initiatives.

Matt Fields – Regional Operations and CI Manager, Tarmac

Matt has over 35 years’ experience within the industry and has worked on all types of surfacing schemes from major motorway reconstructions through to runway and racetrack surfacing. Matt’s experience and knowledge has enabled usable technology to be deployed within the surfacing business to greatly improve all aspects of performance from smoothness to durability of product.

Matt’s role involves ensuring best practices gained on high profile schemes such as Silverstone are deployed to improve quality and client expectations.

Nicole Turley - Sustainability Manager, Devon County Council

Nicole is a sustainability professional who has worked in the highways maintenance and civil engineering sector for over eight years. She has been involved in the A382 project during tender and ECI stages supporting with environmental compliance, ecology and carbon, and is now the Milestone lead for this LiveLabs project.

Beth Lewis - Devon County Council

Beth is a civil engineer with 20 years experience in a variety of sectors. The last 10 years have been with Devon County Council where she has been working alongside the carbon reduction team and is currently managing the design of the A382 scheme and the Live Labs 2 project.

Ian Edser - Director of Highways and Transportation, Barnet Council

Ian has over 30 years proven management and industry sector experience in Infrastructure and Street Scene services from both the client and private sector perspective; building sustainable long-term customer focused service delivery contracts through the sound management of people, assets and finances.

Roger Eke - Technical Product Manager, Tarmac

With over 20 years’ experience in project management and delivery across both road and rail infrastructure, Roger takes a practical but innovative approach to his role. Since joining Tarmac 8 years ago he has been involved in challenging schemes across London Underground and the strategic and local road networks. He specialises in high performance products that enable an early return to service, reducing costs and disruption to users.

In his current role, Roger supports internal and external clients in developing suitable treatments for surfacing schemes in line with the desired performance and sustainability goals and delivered within tight time and budget constraints.

Dave Pugh - Arcadis

With 30 years of experience in the Highways industry, David has a background of leading and managing large highway engineering contracts from a planning, design and an operational perspective. In leading multiple complex contracts he has demonstrated effective planning, strong communication and highly collaborative leadership as well as the ability to assess situations dynamically and be flexible and dynamic to fulfill strategic and functional business and client needs.