1. Development update for BOF 20

2. Slide 2 CIRIA Arch Manual Now published Available for free download from CIRIA web site

3. Slide 3 CIRIA Tunnel Manual third draft produced in November 2006 steering group approved in December 2006 awaiting CIRIA peer review publication late spring/early summer 2007

4. Slide 4 Sustainable Bridges 3 rd year completed –year end reports just submitted to EU 1 dissemination workshop held –BAM (NDE) 3 further workshops planned (by invitation) –LTU (repair & strengthening) 26/27 March 2007 –COWI (assessment) 21/22 May 2007 –EMPA (monitoring) 28/29 June 2007 Final conference (open to all) –Wroclaw 10, 11 October 2007

5. Slide 5 European Construction Technology Platform - http://www.ectp.org/ 2 nd plenary meeting/brokerage event in Versailles in November 2006 –VCE proposal, Quicnet FP7 1 st call published 22 nd December 2006 –not a lot of relevance to bridges - later this year? –railway meeting planned for Frankfurt in February 2007 –Dutch national platform/Eurekabuild brokerage meeting in Rotterdam 22/23 January 2007 client/user advisory group meeting in Brussels January 2007 Contact made with UK national platform –membership of support group a possibility

6. Slide 6 Other projects (1) CIRIA –Manual on the use of rock in hydraulic engineering now with CIRIA publications –Whole life costing across industries work progressed to phase 2 (Scott Wilson) –Monitoring of concrete structures (DTI funded) final report discussed December 2006 Possible CIRIA report as spin off –Metallic bridges – John Clarke delay –Dry stone walls – Ronnie Wilson delay

7. Slide 7 Other projects (2) Mining related –Edinburgh University - mine shaft detection –Newcastle University - management of shallow mine workings Bath University –shear resistance of elderly pre stressed beams with transverse post tensioning Salford University –soil/structure interaction in arch bridges –radial pinning of masonry arches –acoustic emission testing Cardiff University –fatigue in masonry arches

8. Slide 8 Other projects (3) Surrey University –reliability based bridge inspection frequencies –fatigue crack growth in wrought iron Keele University/SciSite - detection of rebar corrosion Edinburgh University - use of GPR on masonry arches Parsons Brinckerhoff - proprietary FRP products for use in bridges

9. Slide 9 Other projects (4) DTI –TSET (LSBU etc) –ACLAIM (ESR Technology) –KTN:MBE (CIRIA and BRE) Rod Howe and David Patterson (HA)

10. Slide 10 Watching brief (1) BSI Committee B/509/1 –BS EN 1317 - Road restraint systems –BS6779 Pt 4 – Masonry bridge parapets Edward ? Leeds – PhD on FRP/metallic strengthening Bath, Bradford & Bristol Universities - low energy lime mortars Bath & Southampton Universities – dry stone walls

11. Slide 11 Networks Materials KTN (amf.globalwatchonline.com) launched 19 January 2006 –SMART.mat (www.smartmat.org) also launched 19 January 2006 smart composites workshop at IOM3, 25 May 2006 roadmapping workshop at IOM3, 6 June 2006 –NCN (www.ncn-uk.co.uk) presentation to next BOF? –NGCC (www.ngcc.org) New co-ordinating organisation (Net Composites) SIMoNET (www.simonet.org) –seminar held 15 November 2006, next planned for April 2007