LoTAG Highway Maintenance Sector working Group
North West sector Meeting.
Meeting hosted by London Borough of Hounslow
Committee Room 2,Civic Centre
Minutes of meeting held on Friday 21st August 2009
Chair : Satbir Gill
Attendees:
Joseph Kennedy
Graham Harbird
Ziggy Gaca
Gurmeet Matharu
John Greenfield
Trevor Collet
Sony Pham
Munwar Ahmed
Fazlul Huq
(JK)
(GH)
(ZG)
(GM)
(JG)
(TC)
(SP)
(MA)
(FH)
London Borough Richmond
London Borough of Brent
London Borough of Brent
London Borough of Hillingdon
Londo Borough of Harrow
London Borough of Hounslow
London Borough of Hounslow
London Borough of Hounslow
London Borough of Hounslow
Apologies : Sandor Fazekas,Devinder Rayatt
Minutes : Fazlul Huq
Action
SG welcomed members for attending the meeting.
David Marlow of AI Solutions gave presentation on Toolkit CS on
how to manage CDM and ensure LB Hounslow’s compliance as far
as CDM is concerned. He presented outline of all the CDM stages
with in LB Hounslow and guidance for using Toolkit CS at each of
those stages.
SG explained how LB Hounslow manage and comply with CDM
health and safety regulations supported by Toolkit CS hosted
solution. This software is being integrated to outlook.
1.
Matters Discussed
General discussion from previous notes of meeting held on 8th May
2009.
SG - proposed to invite Duro Basic of TfL in the next meeting on
27th November.
GM – emphasised on TfL to attend meeting as regard to TfL fund
allocation matters.
2.
Traffic Management Act : Trevor Collett presented TMA 2004
SG- informed that we have put in applications to DFT with other 17
London boroughs & TfL for permit scheme.
3.
Dropped Kerb : (Crossovers)
Agreed to circulate borough’s crossover policy. It was decided to
circulate crossover questionnaires.
4.
London wide Skid Resistance Project
JG- proposed for policy and guidance on London wide Skid
resistance rather than individual borough policy.
SG- Road 2000 project to commission scanner survey.
5.
LoTAG Asset Management
SG- We have got 100% asset inventory and also video inventory.
We have completed Highways Asset Management Plan –HAMP-V3
and linked with PFI. skid résistance, crossovers all included in
HAMP. Hounslow carried out coring survey for the whole network
@500m interval to ascertain details of pavement.
JK –appreciated the coring for pavement which will give basic
guide for the section of the road layer.
JG- raised the issue of video inventory, which could be via Google
earth. There was a doubt that Google might not be able to give all
the elements of the road like street lighting column, bollard, road
sign etc. Video survey needed to be specific.
SG – one million pounds has been given to all London boroughs &
TfL for asset management by DFT
6.
CDM 2007 Training Project
It was agreed by all that training was required for CDM 2007 .Draft
programme will be sending to Ziggy Gaca and training will be
organised.
We need to allocate budget to use for training.
7.
ZG
Research /Trials /Training
SG – We have been carrying out micro surfacing –cold overlay of
6mm thick. Burlington road was done last year as a trial for micro
surfacing and we have the programme for further 20 roads.
Patching needed to be done before micro surfacing. Section 58 will
cover statutory undertakers so that they cannot touch the road up to
two years. We are working together with TRL on this. If trial goes
ok, we will continue micro surfacing. This is a low cost option for
resurfacing and cost is approx.£3.50/M2.
JG – requested to circulate specification. He is keen to know the
criteria, its application and how to select road.
SG
JK-Richmond tried micro surfacing last year.
8.
Benchmarking Exercise
Ziggy Gaca will circulate questioners to all members as regards to
winter gritting.
ZG
JG-We need to know the rate for winter grit per vehicle charge and
what are the rate other boroughs are paying for hire cost of vehicle.
9.
AOB- LBH PFI Project
SG- We have submitted outline business case to DFT. It is
anticipated that work will start in January 2013.
Next LoTAG meeting will be held on Friday 27th November 2009 at Civic Centre,
L.B Hounslow