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Consortium activities 

Core activities

The core activity of the consortium is to organise a number of research based meetings each year providing the opportunity for informal contact between consortium members. The content of the meetings will vary ("themed" seminars, technical meetings etc) aiming to provide broad appeal, and cater for those with interests in asphalt and related industries. In addition to their technical content, the meetings provide opportunities for technical discussions that may lead to ‘spin-off’ research ideas. This identification of future research is seen as a primary activity of the consortium, and is discussed below in more detail.

‘Spin-off’ research

One of the main objectives of the consortium meetings is to identify possible ‘spin-off’ research ideas. This may result in a sub-set of consortium members funding (or partly funding) research in a specific area under the general umbrella of the consortium. This funding will be in addition to the annual consortium membership fee and, for example, may include "in-kind" contributions. Any research performed in this way will be commercially in confidence by separate agreement of all consortium members supporting the particular research. Commercially sensitive research results will not be made generally available to other members of the consortium unless agreed by all consortium members supporting the particular research.

Previous Meeting Themes

• Automated Plate Load Testing (APLT) Equipment (April 2015) - presentations from:
• Mark Wayne, Tensar International, Alpharetta U.S.A - Automated Plate Load Testing Equipment 
• Mark Waterson, East Riding of Yorkshire Council - Skid resistance performance of 6mm thin wearing courses

• Binder Grade Correction and Rejuvenation (December 2014) - presentations from:
• Dr Ian M Lancaster (NYNAS UK Technical Manager) - Binder Grade Correction and Rejuvenation
• Charles Catt (Warwickshire) - Update on PSV/SCRIM Trial
• Venon Jalali (The University of Nottingham) - Compaction of Warm Mix Asphalt 

• Thin Pavements: Design, Research, and Reducing Costs (September 2014) - presentations from: 
• Norfolk County Council, led by Bob Noakes, 
• plus an update on "Compaction of Warm Mix Asphalt" from Venon Jalali

• Congestion - Infrastructure to reduce, maintenance to avoid (April 2014) - presentations from:
• Smart motorways - Kenny Guihen (Highways Agency)
• The asset management challenge for the strategic road network - Paul Cockell (Highways Agency)
• The future for asset led maintenance - Simon Came (Aone+)
• Delivering maintenance schemes whilst minimising congestion - Dave Cartwright (Aone+)
• Compaction of warm mix asphalt - Venon Jalali (The University of Nottingham)