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Cold Comfort Scotland 20196th Annual Winter Maintenance Conference and Exhibition

25th April 2019 | Macdonald Inchyra Hotel, Falkirk

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Speaker organisations include representatives from: • Aberdeenshire Council • Amey

• Argyll and Bute Council • Ayrshire

Roads Alliance • Heriot Watt University

• Highland Council • Highways

England • Rijkswaterstaat - Ministry of

Infrastructure and Water Management,

The Netherlands • Tayside Contracts

• Transport Scotland and more

Key topics for 2019 will include:

• Delivering technology and innovation to help with winter service efficiency in the Netherlands

• Scottish local authority case studies

• Live panel discussion featuring Transport Scotland, Highways England and SCOTS representatives

• Highways England on the A66 Winterpave trials

• Effective winter service technology

• Planning for more extreme weather

Who should attend:The annual Scottish Cold Comfort conference and exhibition would be of benefit to:

What you will learn:

• Hear from industry experts delivering up-to-date best practice from the sector

• Share insight and opinion on the latest developments and shape the way the industry operates in the future

• Learn from other authorities from around the UK on their approaches to winter service delivery

• Participate in the most up-to-date technical sessions featuring the latest research and developments

Cold Comfort Scotland is the country’s only conference and exhibition dedicated to the winter service sector.

The conference aims to increase the knowledge and improve the effectiveness of winter service operatives in Scotland. Using best practice case studies, technical sessions and debate and discussion, Cold Comfort Scotland considers every aspect of the winter service delivery sector as well as some of the new products, concepts and innovations being used on the road network.

Combining research from both local and European winter operations, the sixth annual event will detail how to successfully plan and execute your winter service strategies.

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• Senior local authority representatives

• Private sector contractors

• Winter maintenance managers

• Highway engineers

• Resiliance/civil contingency managers

• Highway managers

• Contract managers

• Fleet managers

• Operations managers

• Network managers

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME


08:30 Registration and exhibition viewing

09:30 Welcome and introduction Stewart Leggett, Head of Network Operations,

Transport Scotland

09:45 Delivering innovation and new technology in winter service plans

• The challenges and opportunities of managing severe weather in The Netherlands

• Incorporating change and new technology • Benefits and efficiencies and making winter service

delivery plans effective Rini Donker, Senior Advisor Winter Maintenance,

Rijkswaterstaat

10:15 Local authority case study: Delivering innovation and community partnership working as part of an effective winter service plan

• Part one: Winter Resilience community partnership working arrangements

• Part two: Delivering innovative new customer-focussed services through web and voice activation, to provide 24/7 on-demand access to winter maintenance information

Kevin Braidwood, Network and Operations Manager, Ayrshire Roads Alliance

Theresa Mackin, Business Support Manager, Ayrshire Roads Alliance

10:45 Local authority case study: Dundee residual salt scanning trial

• Overview of the first residual salt scanning trial • Results of the trial and future work • Benefits of the work and development Ewan Macnaughton, Road Maintenance Partnership

Manager, Tayside Contracts Marc Desmulliez, Director/Founder, MicroSense

Technologies, Microsystems Engineering Centre at Heriot Watt University

11:10 Refreshment break and exhibition viewing

11:30 Live panel debate: Winter 2018/19 review • A review of the 2018/19 season-lessons learnt • Main challenges and opportunities in the sector • Implementing new technology and innovation • How is technology driving change on the network • How can we make the Scottish network more

resilient? Iain McDonald, Network Resilience Manager,

Transport Scotland Kevin Braidwood, Network and Operations Manager,

Ayrshire Roads Alliance Theresa Mackin, Business Support Manager, Ayrshire

Roads Alliance David Batchelor, Project Manager - Severe Weather

Plan, Severe Weather Research & Development, Highways England

12:00 A66 Winterpave trials • Report on the progress of the trial so far • Expected benefits • Future trials and development Steve Mason, Senior Project Manager – Cumbria &

North Lancashire, Highways England

12:20 The development of 48 hour route based forecasting and data driven treatment decision making

• Aberdeenshire’s approach to winter service and driving efficiencies

• The 48 hour route based forecasting plan • Implementing data driven treatment decision making Bill Lennox, Roads Quality & Resources Manager,

Aberdeenshire Council

12:45 Lunch and exhibition viewing

14:00 Implementing winter plans with the community in mind

• Planning and coordinating a community response • Working with farmers • The benefits and results and future work in this area Nick Russell, Area Manager, STRU South East-

Highways, Amey

14:20 Planning and implementing for a new fleet • Highways England’s new winter fleet • Planning and implementing them on the network • The challenges and opportunities of a new fleet Jane Wilkins, Winter Fleet, National Depot Project

Sponsor, Highways England

14:40 Managing winter - the challenges and opportunities • Developing Argyll and Bute’s winter service plan • Winter as part of delivering for the community • Implementing change and new technology Jim Smith, Head of Roads and Amenity Services,

Argyll and Bute Council

15:00 Refreshments and exhibition viewing

15:20 New technology for efficient delivery • Implementing new equipment over a period of time • Making the right choices for the right delivery • The challenges and opportunities with new

technology James MacDonald, Transport Manager, Highland

Council

16:00 Close of conference

Disclaimer - The conference programme was correct at time of print, changes may occur on the day of conference due to unforeseen circumstances.


SPEAKER PROFILES

David Batchelor Project Manager - Severe Weather Plan, Severe Weather Research & Development Highways England

David Batchelor currently holds the role of project manager for Highways England leading on severe weather planning, as well as severe weather research and development.

For more than 30 years David has been at the very forefront of winter service delivery, management and innovation. He is recognised as an expert in this field, and through his passion and commitment continues to innovate and foster collaboration to deliver excellence in winter service.

Starting his career at Surrey County Council, David rose to become the Winter Service Manager and led the implementation of a UK leading ice prediction and weather forecast system into the County. During the late 90’s David orchestrated the trial and introduction of pre-wetted salting and brine application in Surrey. This system of salt application was a first for the UK and built on the strong European and Scandinavian exchange of expert winter practice that David was able to develop.

Moving into the private sector in 2000 David was a founding member of the National Salt Spreading Research Group (NSSRG), later to become the NWSRG. This group of experts is now recognised as one of the leading research bodies for winter service. David was later to become the first Technical Consultant to the NSSRG as he formed his own winter consultancy company in 2001. He now sits on the Steering and TAG Groups of NWSRG as the Highways England representative.

David also has extensive experience in the commercial sector of winter service, having worked with several leading companies in the fields of ice prediction and RWIS, weather forecasting, winter research and innovative salt application solutions.

David maintains strong links with best practice and research across Europe and is looking to enhance knowledge exchange and collaboration with other international road administrations as well as academia, which is such an important part of continuous improvement for winter service.

Kevin Braidwood Network and Operations Manager Ayrshire Roads Alliance

Kevin Braidwood is the Network and Operations Manager at Ayrshire Roads Alliance a shared service between East Ayrshire Council and South Ayrshire Council. He has over 30 years experience in Civil Engineering, Housing, Architecture and Urban Regeneration within Local Government. Kevin started his career with Strathkelvin District Council Architectural Services and thereafter to East Dunbartonshire Roads and Architectural Services. He spent several years with Raploch Urban Regeneration Company before moving to South Ayrshire Council as Roads Manager and was involved with the creation of Ayrshire Roads Alliance. He is a graduate of Glasgow Caledonian University and the University of Strathclyde

Marc Desmulliez Director/Founder, MicroSense Technologies Microsystems Engineering Centre at Heriot Watt University

Prof. Marc Desmulliez holds 4 degrees in electrical Engineering (Paris), microwave engineering & modern optics (UCL), theoretical physics (Cambridge) and optoelectronics (Edinburgh). After having spent some time in industry in charge of the electrical maintenance of the steel factory Sollac (Dunkirk, France), he moved to the UK to pursue an academic career where he has co-authored over 470 peer-reviewed articles and holds 8 patents.

Marc span two companies, MicroStencil Ltd (2003-2011) whose technology was transferred to DEK, the world’s largest stencil printing equipment manufacturer in the world, and MicroSense Technologies Ltd (microsensetechnologies.com) (2006-present) specialised in the sensing of materials. Marc currently acts as the CEO of this Company.

The company MicroSense Technologies Ltd has developed a unique, patented sensing technology capable of reducing waste, increase process efficiency and provide actionable data for stakeholders in the industrial sectors of food & drink, road maintenance, and oil & gas.

Rini Donker Senior Advisor Winter Maintenance Rijkswaterstaat

Rini Donker is a senior advisor on winter maintenance and responsible for the winter maintenance at Rijkswaterstaat (highway agency of the Netherlands). Rijkswaterstaat is part of the ministry of waterworks and infrastructure. Within Rijkswaterstaat Rini works at the department of traffic and water management. At this department all winter maintenance is organized for our highways and secondary roads and also some bicycle roads. They also provide winter maintenance as a service to some other road authorities such as for example the harbour Main port Rotterdam.

Rini studied civil engineering in ‘s-Hertogenbosch and has been working at Rijkswaterstaat since 1992.

Bill Lennox Roads Quality & Resources Manager Aberdeenshire Council

Bill Lennox has worked in roads construction and maintenance with private contractors and Local Government for over 30 years. His current role with Aberdeenshire Council includes responsibility for budget setting and monitoring, developing the Winter Service Plan, maintaining a Quality Management System and monitoring Service performance. He is an active member of the SCOTS roads group and the APSE roads and street lighting advisory group. Bill’s presentation follows on from the one he made to Cold Comfort Scotland in 2017.


Iain McDonald Network Resilience Manager Transport Scotland

Iain McDonald is currently Network Resilience Manager at Transport Scotland and has 25 years’ experience in Winter Service as well as Trunk Roads Network Management, Operations and Maintenance.

Leading on innovation, research and the development of Quality management in Winter Service, Iain represents Transport Scotland on the National Winter Service Research Group (NWSRG) as well as the European Winter Group and the SCOTS Winter sub-group.

Combined with working with Transport Scotland’s 10 Operating Companies and DBFOs units to deliver the Winter Service on 3,507km of Trunk Road Network and the development of Winter Service in the new NMC (5G) Contracts, current projects include the ongoing research and development of liquid brine treatments and the use of alternative de-icers, the installation of a Winter Service RWIS trail site on the M8 at Duntilland and the evolution of the Winter fleet, and improvement in logistics and communications in the delivery of Winter Service.

James MacDonald Transport Manager Highland Council

James MacDonald Transport and Logistics Manager with Highland Council previously Transport Manager on a large Municipal Contract in Middle East- Bahrain. Senior Engineer by Highlands and Islands Airports for 14 years before Bahrain.

Theresa Mackin Business Support Manager Ayrshire Roads Alliance

Theresa Mackin is the Business Support Manager at Ayrshire Roads Alliance, a shared service between East Ayrshire Council and South Ayrshire Council. Theresa has over 16 year experience in the private sector and 9 years in local government in the field of financial management, Human Resources and IT. Theresa has worked in North, South and East Ayrshire Councils primarily in Roads and also a period of time in Social Work and has led on many initiatives. She is a graduate of the University of Strathclyde.

Ewan Macnaughton Road Maintenance Partnership Manager Tayside Contracts

Ewan Macnaughton is a Chartered Engineer and leads the road maintenance partnership between Dundee City Council and Tayside Contracts which provides inspection, design and construction services to the Council. The Partnership has been involved in winter maintenance technology developments in recent years particularly focused on route optimisation and automated spreading. Ewan is also chair of the regions’ maintenance strategy group, which amongst other objectives has led a collaborative review of winter maintenance service provision across the Council boundaries to standardise service standards and operational delivery.

Steve Mason Senior Project Manager – Cumbria & North Lancashire Highways England

Steve Mason is a an experienced highway manager with over 30 years’ experience in highways. Steve has operated in a range of highway niches gaining experience in reactive works, road renewal projects, asset management, traffic schemes and development control. Steve has managed winter maintenance activities at varying levels, through direct labour operations, service providers and other delivery models. Steve’s career has largely been aligned to highway maintenance activities gaining experience at Essex County Council, Cheshire East Council, Northumberland County Council and North Yorkshire County Council. In his current role Steve is a Senior Project manager at Highways England based in Penrith Area 13, Leading on a range of Improvement and renewal projects.

Nick Russell Area Manager, STRU South East-Highways Amey

Nick Russell is an experienced winter maintenance professional working for Amey on the South East Trunk Road contract on behalf of Transport Scotland. He has experience in delivering winter services both on busy motorways through Central Scotland and more rural upland areas in the Scottish Borders. He has worked on various contracts for Amey including the South East in both the 2nd and current 4th generation contracts, the M8 DBFO contract and the Northern Ireland DBFO 2. Nick has been the Winter Manager on the South East since its commencement in 2014 having previously been the Winter manager in Norther Ireland for 5 years and a Winter Duty Officer from 2004. Nick is also the Area Manager looking after the Motorways in the South East Unit, responsible for co-ordination of inspections and Routine Maintenance.

Jim SmithHead of Roads and Amenity ServicesArgyll and Bute Council

Jim Smith’s role is to ensure Argyll and Bute’s roads and marine infrastructure enable the safe and convenient movement of people and goods across a geographically diverse area. In addition to this, maintaining the physical appearance of Argyll and Bute by managing open spaces, cemeteries, street cleaning, refuse collection and waste management in line within a changing landscape of legislation and local authority requirements. Jim has previously worked for local authorities in Manchester and Cumbria and has many years’ experience in local government and civil engineering.

Jane WilkinsWinter Fleet, National Depot Project SponsorHighways England

Jane Wilkins is a Project Manager within the National Winter and Severe Weather Team in Highways England. Jane became involved in the winter maintenance service when she worked in the Midlands operational team 12 years ago as a winter and depot Manager. She moved to the winter team and has spent much of her time working with stakeholders and vehicles users to develop the justification and technical specification for replacement of the company’s 437 winter vehicles as well as supporting other winter related activities and policies.

Multevo 2

Institute of Highway Engineers 4

Exactrak 5

Holder Equipment UK Ltd. 6

Peacock Salt 7

Findlay Irvine Ltd 8

Eurodome Limited 9

John Jordan Limited 10

Vaisala 11

Webaspx 12

Compass Minerals 13

MetDesk 14

RUD Chains Ltd 15

WinterTech Systems 16

Stabilised Pavements Ltd 17

Archway Roadmaster (UK) 18

True View Visuals 19

Safecote Ltd 20

StormGeo 21

Winter Service Solutions Ltd 22

ICL UK Sales 23

Campbell Scientific Ltd 24

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Archway Roadmaster are the manufacturer of the Roadmaster® spray injection patching equipment range and currently work with over 50 local authorities in the U.K and Ireland.

The Company has developed innovative solutions for the highways maintenance industry for nearly two decades and provides Roadmaster® technology to local authorities and contractors through machine sales and as a maintenance contractor. www.archwayroadmaster.co.uk Stand 18

Campbell Scientific equipment is the trusted heart of critical systems globally, transforming accurate and reliable measurement data into actionable insight. This data provides a platform for decision makers to make fully informed, safety critical decisions from positions of confidence across applications including road weather monitoring systems and meteorological centres globally. Campbell Scientific’s non-invasive RWIS solutions are low maintenance, easy to install and provide a cost-effective way to supplement existing measurements and increase operator confidence in route-based weather forecasting. www.campbellsci.eu Stand 24

Our rock salt, extracted from our mine in Cheshire, is used across the UK in the pursuit of safe, ice-free highways. By providing our salt to local councils, highways authorities and private contractors from all corners of the country, we are ensuring safe winter conditions on everything from large trunk networks down to private company car parks. With a vast wealth of mining knowledge, gathered since our initial mine opening in 1844, we are leaders in winter highway maintenance. We work in direct conjunction with those agencies that treat roads during winter and are always looking forwards in the pursuit of good customer service alongside high quality product. www.compassminerals.com Stand 13

Eurodome Ltd are the leading salt storage provider of sustainable timber salt barns in the UK to Local Authorities and Highway Contractors. We offer a range of fully engineered timber Eurodomes® designed to suit all sites and budgets and to last for over 30 years with minimal maintenance.

Eurodome are also able to offer the full Losberger range of fabric barns and sliding roof solutions from Blommaert.

We offer a full turnkey service from design, through planning and installation including groundworks and electrics.

We hold ISO9001/14001, CHAS and Constructionline Gold accreditations. www.eurodome.com Stand 9

Exactrak provide real-time vehicle tracking and monitoring systems, accessible at the touch of a button via a dedicated web portal. With over 19 years of experience in the winter maintenance sector, Exactrak have developed systems to specifically address the best practice detailed in the Winter Service Practical Guidance (Appendix H), helping users achieve significant cost savings for their operation. From basic route navigation to cutting edge systems to allow fully automated gritting, exception reporting and route based forecasting, Exactrak can tailor products to meet your business requirements. Exactrak solutions are compatible with all of major winter maintenance vehicle manufacturers. www.exactrak.co.uk Stand 5

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Findlay Irvine is an innovative manufacturing company developing specialised safety systems for the transportation industry, providing customised systems and products for over 50 years. Findlay Irvine pioneered and were instrumental in developing systems to help roads authorities manage winter conditions on the highways and initiate correct safe action. These systems have been refined and developed over the years and now provide state of the art winter monitoring systems.ICELERT is an internationally recognised brand covering Findlay Irvine’s range of weather stations, sensors and data management software.FLOODALERT is a complete flood management solution for roads or areas prone to flooding. www.findlayirvine.com Stand 8

Holder Equipment UK Ltd the UK importer for Holder Multi-use articulated tractors for use all year round. The Holder range of tractors are compact and robust with models from 45hp to130hp. With articulated steering for manouverability and stepless hydrostatic 4 wheel drive, with 3 mounting points to accept a wide range of attachments for all seasons use.We are able to offer solutions for the winter maintenance, including dry spreaders, pre-wet, and brine sprayers in comnination with Snow plows,Brushes and Snow Blowers. With over 100 solutions they include attachments for patch planning grass cutting, verge maintenace and more. Come and chat to us and our dealer for Scotland Double A Trading to find out how a Holder can help in your application www.holderequipment.co.uk Stand 6

ICL UK Sales Ltd is a mining company based on the Cleveland/North Yorkshire border Rock-Salt produced is higher in Sodium Chloride than any other indigenously produced salt in the UK., which is beneficial to our customers and the road user. As an environmentally friendly company, our salt is delivered via our shipping terminal to coastal ports around the UK. Where this is not feasible we offer a first class road delivery service.ICL UK Sales Ltd is proud to be a major supplier to the County Councils/Contractors and welcomes all opportunities to prove ourselves both in Quality and Service. www.icl-uk.uk Stand 23

John Jordan Limited will once again be at the Cold Comfort Scotland (Stand 10), focussing on AutoSock, the Norwegian vehicle tyre socks that keep vehicles of all sizes moving safely in snowy weather and Polaire fast-fitting snowchains.

AutoSock are reusable tyre socks which are pulled over the driving wheels of vehicles which need extra grip. Vehicles which use AutoSock should never get stuck in snow or on ice.There are sizes for HGVs, vans, and cars.

Many of our emergency services are using AutoSock - not only to do their job, but also to get their key people to work, and safely home again.

We will also be showing Polaire’s ‘Steel Truck’ snow chains for twin-wheeled trucks; they are faster, easier, and therefore safer to fit than any other snow chain system on the market. www.autosock.co.uk Stand 10


MetDesk provides fully supported quality-led forecasting services to weather critical businesses worldwide. In the UK, MetDesk has approximately 50% of the available highways market and has enjoyed continuous, sustainable growth since its formation. Acknowledged as the agile forecast provider where quality comes first, forecasting services are fully supported by a team of experienced transportation meteorologists who pride themselves on assisting clients arrive at the most appropriate decision. If you value quality and want a fully supported service built around the way you work please come and see us during the conference. www.metdesk.com Stand 14

Multevo Ltd have rapidly built a reputation for providing its customers with an innovative, robust and versatile product. Originally supplying Multihog vehicles & associated attachments, Multevo has evolved to supply Europe’s leading chemical free weed control equipment, and expanded into other markets, including equipment and operator hire, complete infrastructure renewal solutions & training. We work with some of the UK’s largest private and public-sector organisations. Our customers are at the heart of what we do, and we have an impressive track record developing innovative solutions to conventional customer challenges. The core aim is to maximise customer value through our range of products and services. This is achieved through our commitment to customer collaboration and after sales support; building relationships that last with a reliable record you can trust. We see ourselves as problem solvers to help make your life easier – we go the whole hog to ensure we provide a service that makes a measurable difference. www.multevo.co.uk Stand 2

Peacock Salt are importers and distributors of all varieties of road, industrial and food grade salt. Established in 1874, we are a growing business supplying over 80 different types of salt and related equipment to over 14,000 different customers UK-wide. This includes brine saturators, demountable and trailed spreaders, snow ploughs and a wide range of grit bins, push spreaders and other de-icing equipment. Many of our products are available to customers via the Scotland Excel Framework at preferential rates.Ultimately, we are ‘Serious About Salt’, serious about our customers and serious about everything that can combat or prevent ice and snow. www.peacocksalt.com Stand 7

RUD Chains manufacture and supply a wide range of snow chains suitable for passenger cars, 4x4’s, SUV’s, vans, trucks, buses, working machines, commercial and emergency services vehicles. With over 140 years of experience behind them, RUD snow chains ensure ultimate safety and offer maximum traction on snow and icy roads. RUD ROTOGRIP automatic snow chains can be used across a wide range of vehicles from road haulage, buses, public transport and emergency service vehicles. The automatic snow and ice chain is deployed with just a flip-of-a-switch from the driver’s seat, while the vehicle is in motion. www.rud.co.uk Stand 15

Safecote Limited supplies a number of innovative winter service products that help the practitioner to improve snow and ice removal. Being founder members of the NWSRG we fully understand the challenges that decision-makers face and are able to offer a wide range of solutions to help you achieve the improvements highlighted in Appendix H. These products include Safecote treated salt, the GK5 snow plough blades, a range of high performance low corrosive liquid & solid de-icer’s, de-icing applicators, mobile & wireless weather stations, vehicle tracking & optimisation software, timber constructed salt barns and salt saturators. www.safecote.com Stand 20

Stabilised Pavements Limited is a specialist in-situ road recycling company based in The Midlands, working with highways clients throughout the UK. Operating independently the business prides itself on delivering great customer service built on decades of highway experience, technical expertise and a highly trained workforce operating state of the art plant and equipment. www.stabilisedpavements.co.uk Stand 17

As a global provider of weather intelligence, StormGeo is a trusted partner for companies who require decision support for weather sensitive operations. We are one of the largest and fastest growing providers of professional weather services. Our customers operate in changing environments onshore, offshore, in air and at sea. We staff seven 24/7 forecast centres worldwide, including Aberdeen, so support is always available. Over the past 2 decades we have earned a reputation in the industry for high-quality forecasts, commitment to innovation through extensive research and development, and exceptional customer service. Our mission is to provide the most innovative decision support solutions and services for weather-sensitive operations — helping our clients safeguard people, assets and profits while improving business performance. We are passionate about the weather and put a heavy focus on R&D and technological advancement to continuously improve our forecast solutions and services. www.stormgeo.com Stand 21

TrueViewVisuals are experts in real-world visualisation, providing new ways to communicate projects to clients and the public. This year we have created a service for local authorities, with The Ayrshire Roads Alliance (South and East Ayrshire) being the first to demonstrate the benefits of online and voice-activated tracking. Live access to winter maintenance vehicles helps engage better with informed decision making by citizens, increases and improves out of hours service for roads and saves help desk call time. Our services are mobile friendly; designed for phones & tablets as well as desktop web browsers and Amazon’s Alexa-controlled speakers. www.trueviewvisuals.com Stand 19


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Vaisala is a global leader in environmental and industrial measurement. We are a reliable partner for customers around the world, offering a comprehensive range of innovative observation and measurement products and services. Headquartered in Finland, Vaisala employs approximately 1,850 professionals worldwide. Road weather technology has as many uses as there are weather conditions, from having accurate data about the road surface, like snow and ice to wind, sand storms or flooding. Vaisala road weather solutions monitor roadways for specific parameters you need to know, to take action or warn travelers. All decisions, whether human or automated, are based on accurate and reliable measurement data, so ensuring your road weather data is key. www.vaisala.com Stand 11

Webaspx is the UK’s leading optimisation company for municipal services. Our award-winning software and services have been used by over 200 local authorities and environmental service companies to design and run better routes and services. Using our winter maintenance solution, planners and managers can make existing routes more efficient by maximising treatment time and reducing travel, or quickly and accurately evaluate service options, such as depot locations, changes to climatic domains or the proportion of the network treated. www.webaspx.com Stand 12

This year we are excited to launch our gritter mounted, dynamic salt salinity sensor. Able to measure the actual salinity on the road surface in real time allowing winter service practitioners to decide if more de-icing salt is needed to be applied or not. We are the leading salt pile sheeting provider in the UK to Local Authorities and Highway Contractors. Offering engineered options from SaltSaver sheeting to the SuperSheet system for strategic stock piles, designed to suit all sites and budgets. We also manufacture and supply PathWay KA, the unique, fast acting, low temperature, corrosion free, potassium acetate liquid anti-icer for sensitive structures and cycleways. www.winterservicesolutions.com Stand 22

WinterTech Systems design, develop and manufacture salt saturation and storage solutions. We have become established as the premium supplier of the next generation of technology in this area. Some product features include SMS messaging, remote access & control, Web based back-office status monitoring & ability to produce brine at any concentration (0-26%) and the ability to store both driver and truck details. Our prestigious clients such as Kier, Aone+, BEAR Scotland, Colas cite the inherent reliability, serviceability and on-line visibility of our machines. We can provide you with the necessary 100% brine production resilience that has not heretofore existed. With our saturators, the possibility of 100% resilient pre-wet and even full-wet treatments is now a reality. Please come and see the future of brine manufacturing technology on our stand. www.wintertechsystems.com Stand 16

Keeping the frost off Footways Cold Comfort Scotland Exhibitors Peacock Salt will be showcasing their market leading Hilltip Spraystriker. On display will be a demountable de-icing sprayer used to treat footways and cycle paths. Used widely throughout the UK roads network, the sprayer can apply liquid up to a 5m spray-width and track the results on Hilltip’s HTrack service. HTrack enables drivers to evidence their treatment activities by reporting timestamped data such as location, spray width, application rate, vehicle speed and volume. Liquid de-icing is an effective strategy for footway and cycle path winter management. Sodium chloride brine is typically used which strikes a good balance between cost and effectiveness. By applying brine as a pre-treatment, it forms a barrier on the road surface to help prevent ice from forming. As a reactionary treatment, brine immediately activates and begins to de-ice without the requirement of traffic. Peacock Salt are a 5th generation family business established in 1874, headquartered in Ayr and with bases throughout the UK. They are the UK’s largest importer and distributor of white marine salt and winter equipment. Peacock Salt became the sole UK importer for Hilltip equipment. Hilltip is a leading European manufacturer of road maintenance equipment, based in Pietersaari, Finland.

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Sponsors Supported by

• Espoo Smart City - changing the game of street maintenance in Espoo

Toni Korjus, Head of Infrastructural Services, Public Works Department, City of Espoo, Finland

• Dealing with the big freeze - the extreme cold of winter 2018/19 in the US

Matthew Morreim, Division Manager, Street Maintenance, City of St. Paul Public Works, Minnesota

Programme Highlights:

• A Winter 2018/19 review - live panel discussion David Batchelor, Highways England and representatives from

local authorities

• A66 Winterpave trials Steve Mason, Senior Project Manager, Cumbria & North

Lancashire, Highways England

• Planning and implementing for a new fleet Jane Wilkins, Winter Fleet, National Depot Project Sponsor,

Highways England

28th Annual Winter Maintenance Conference and Exhibition

15-16 May 2019Harrogate Convention Centre, UK

Cold Comfort has been at the heart of the UK winter service sector for over 25 years and remains the only conference in the UK focused on delivering insight and best practice in the winter service sector.

The discussions and debate at Cold Comfort 2019 will empower local authorities and their private sector partners with an understanding and knowledge of all the latest issues affecting the winter service sector in the UK. Hear the latest technologies and best practice case studies from as far afield as Finland and the US at the 28th annual conference and exhibition.

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