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UK Bridges Board membership

The UK Bridges Board brings together national and local government from across the UK to consider bridges and highway structures engineering matters. It was set up in 2001, and reports to the UK Roads Liaison Group.

Membership and terms of reference
The UK Bridges Board is tasked with:

•developing and promulgating best practice on technical, financial, administrative and operational matters relating to the sustainable construction, maintenance, availability, safety and use of highways bridges, tunnels and other civil engineering structures, taking into account the different circumstances that may arise in the four UK countries and in urban and rural areas; and

•providing a source of advice to UKRLG, government departments, local authority associations and professional bodies across the UK on best practice and priorities for research, within the context of the wider transport picture.
The Board is chaired by Mike Winter (Dorset County Council) and has the following members:

• Graham Bessant, representing London Underground Ltd
• Ian Bucknall, representing Network Rail
• Graham Cole (Surrey County Council), representing the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport (ADEPT)
• Bob Flitcroft (Lancashire County Council), representing the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport (ADEPT)
• Neil Garton Jones, representing County Surveyors' Society Wales
• Satbir Gill (London Borough of Hounslow), representing Technical Advisors' Group (TAG)
• Rod Howe, representing British Waterways
• Liz Kirkham (Gloucestershire County Council) Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport (ADEPT)
• Neil Loudon, representing the Highways Agency
• David MacKenzie (Highland Council), representing the Society of Chief Officers of Transportation in Scotland (SCOTS)
• Stuart Molyneux, representing the Metropolitan Authorities
• Stephen Pottle, representing Transport for London
• Andy Phillips, representing the Welsh Assembly Government
• Bill Valentine, representing Transport Scotland
• Graeme Brown, representing the Northern Ireland Roads Service
• Paul Williams (London Borough of Brent), representing the London Bridge Engineers Group (LoBEG)
• David Yeoell, representing the London Technical Advisors Group (LoTAG)
• Steve Berry, representing the Department for Transport  

Read the Bridges Research Guidance here.