Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation
The natural home for all people working in highways & transportation infrastructure.
- Date
- 23 January 2024
- Time
This event has now ended
Overview
The Deputy Minister for Climate Change, Lee Waters MS, requested an independent review of the current annual maintenance programmes on the Strategic Road Network (SRN) to consider whether these programmes are suitably designed and specified to meet Welsh ministers' statutory duties as the highway authority for the SRN.
A team of independent experts, led by Matthew Lugg OBE for WSP conducted the Lugg Review. Following a draft report which was completed in May 2022, the team were commissioned to review the recommendations in-line with the Roads Review Panel Report, 'The Future of Road Investment in Wales' (February 2023).
Working with policy and strategy makers at national government level, WSP have led a review that provides a series of recommendations to support the way future maintenance investment decisions on the Strategic Route Network are made. This was to ensure that the Welsh Government statutory duties are retained and priority is given to investment in major infrastructure assets to reflect the change in investment decisions now being taken forward through the Welsh Government transport strategies.
The outcomes of the recommendations are now being progressed, so this presentation will not only describe the details of the review but also provide you with the latest update on the progress being made.
Specifically, the presentation will include:
- Background to the Lugg Review
- Scope and methodology
- Review of current approach and the Major Asset Renewal programme (MAR)
- Key recommendations
- Progress to date.
This event is one of a series with ICE, CILT, and CIHT working together with Welsh Government to address the path to carbon zero.
Organised with
Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport
The chartered body for professionals involved in the movement of goods and people and their associated supply chains.
Speakers
Matthew Lugg, OBE, CEng, BEng, MICE, FCIHT, DMS
WSP
Director of Local Transport
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Matthew Lugg, OBE, CEng, BEng, MICE, FCIHT, DMS
Non-executive director and company chairman of Via EM Ltd
Matthew is a past president of both the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) and Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport (ADEPT).
He is a former chair of the UK Roads Board ,the Midland Highway Alliance (MHA), the Road Environment Working Party (REWP) of Parliamentary Advisory Council on Transport Safety (PACTS) and is the current chair of Editorial Panel of the ICE Municipal Engineering Journal.
He has spent the majority of his career working in the public sector working for 5 different County Councils and was seconded to work for the DfT on the Highway Maintenance Efficiency Programme (HMEP) initiative.
For the last 10 years he has worked in the private sector for both consultants and a contractor - Mouchel, Keir and now WSP.
He has also presented a number of papers internationally on highways infrastructure asset management and other transport related topics.
Matthew has won numerous awards most notably the Highways Award for Lifetime Achievement, the ICE Municipal Engineer of the year, the UK National Transport Award for his outstanding contribution to Local Transport, an ICE Award for outstanding contribution to civil engineering in the East Midlands and the OBE for services to local government.
Lee Waters
Welsh Government
deputy minister for climate change
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Lee Waters
Lee Waters is the Member of the Senedd for the Llanelli constituency. He was born and raised in Carmarthenshire. He was educated in Brynamman and Ammanford and gained a degree in Politics from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. His policy interests are wide-ranging, including the economy, climate change, provision for looked after children, digital policy and the media.
Before being elected in May 2016, Lee was Director of Wales's leading independent think-tank, the Institute of Welsh Affairs. He previously ran the sustainable transport charity Sustrans Cymru where he led the campaign for the Active Travel Act. He is a former Chief Political Correspondent of ITV Wales and BBC Wales producer.
On 13 December 2018, he was appointed Deputy Minister for Economy and Transport. Lee was appointed Deputy Minister for Climate Change on 13 May 2021.
