Conference Programme
9:00
Registration and refreshments
9:50
Opening address from the Chair
Quick Poll:
- Are you working in the Scottish market already?
- Which sectors are you primarily interested in?
- What do you hope to take back to the office from today?
Antony Oliver
Editor
New Civil Engineer
10:05
Investment in Scotland’s road infrastructure in 2010 and beyond
- Update on motorway and trunk road infrastructure improvement works: ongoing, planned and aspirational
- Pipeline of possible tenders over the coming year; large, medium and small
- How to find out about contract tenders
- Principal challenges over the next eighteen months
Ainslie McLaughlin
Director Major Transport Infrastructure Projects (MTRIPS)
Transport Scotland
10:35
Overview of planned and ongoing rail projects in Scotland
- Brief overview of current and upcoming major projects: What news of funding for the Borders rail link?
- Outline of planned work on station refurbishments and new stations
- Viability of major schemes in the current funding climate
- Moving on after the cancellation of the Glasgow Airport Rail Link (GARL): Could any other projects be at risk?
Bill Reeve
Director of Rail Delivery
Transport Scotland
11:05
Question and answer session
11:10
Morning refreshments
11:40
Understanding Network Rail’s plans for the Scottish railway
- Proposed investment in Scottish rail infrastructure during CP4
- The need for efficiencies in CP4 and how this relates to Scottish projects
- Exploring Network Rail priorities and upcoming projects in Scotland
- Network Rail perspective on the cancellation of GARL
- What plans for electrification across the whole network?
Ron McAulay
Director Scotland
Network Rail
12:10
Question and answer session
12:20
Speed Networking Session – Bring your business cards!
All attendees are invited to join this speed networking session. This is your opportunity to meet potential clients and professionals from the transport engineering community, make new contacts, discuss the key issues currently facing your organisation and identify future partnerships.
12:40
Lunch
STREAM A – RAIL & TRAM PROJECT FOCUS
13:40
The Edinburgh Tram Network
- Understanding why a tram network was selected
- Was the city prepared?
- Delivery lessons learnt so far: Principal challenges and how they are being overcome
- What plans for the future?
Steven Bell
Project Director – Edinburgh Trams
tie
14:10
The Airdrie-Bathgate (A-B) rail link
- How is the scheme progressing?
- Make up of the contracting team and supply chain and approaches to collaborative working
- Interesting techniques or technology being used on the scheme
- Ongoing contractor opportunities on the project
Hugh Wark
Senior Project Manager
Network Rail
14:40
Question and answer session
STREAM B - ROADS PROJECT FOCUS
13:40
Plans for M8 Baillieston-Newhouse
- Aspirations for the project
- Scheme design and development
- Associated improvements to existing infrastructure
- Current status and next steps
Duncan Hamilton
Divisional Director
Mouchel
Ian McKay
Regional Director
WA Fairhurst & Partners
14:10
A9 improvements works: Past, present and future
- Developing a strategy for route improvement
- Overview of the scale of the work being carried out
- Ongoing engineering, construction and supply chain opportunities
Jo Blewett
Project Manager
Transport Scotland
14:40
Question and answer session
14:50
Afternoon refreshments
15:15
Progress on the New Forth Crossing
- Update on timescales of the scheme
- Latest cost estimates
- Outcomes of feasibility studies: ground investigations, marine investigations and environmental surveys
- Detailed route proposal based on initial investigations
- Current and future contractor and subcontractor opportunities
Lawrence Shackman
Project Manager
Transport Scotland
15:45
Port infrastructure: Meeting the transport needs of offshore renewable energy developers
With the growth of offshore renewable energy production, Nigel Mills explains how port infrastructure needs to develop in order to provide an effective interface between new sea and shore based activity. Offering a case study in port development, he will explore the engineering issues which arise in providing a platform from which the new wet renewable sector can operate from.
Captain Nigel Mills
Chairman
Scottish Ports Committee
Director of Marine Services
Orkney Islands Council
16:15
Question and answer session
16:25
