Highways UK 2017 Intelligent Infrastructure Challenge

Opportunity to work with key industry players in the UK’s road network.

Highways UK, roads for modern Britain¬†is a major event on November 8th and 9th 2017 at the NEC in Birmingham. It is for people and organisations involved in the planning, designing, building, operating and future-proofing of the UK’s road network.

The 2016 event was a great success and attracted over 2,200 visitors. The Costain Intelligent Infrastructure Hub was created at this event to be a showcase of innovations and technologies that facilitated a more efficient and safer network and presented these solutions directly to key clients – Highways England and Local Authorities.

New for the 2017 event is The Intelligent Infrastructure Challenge. This is a competition involving specific infrastructure client challenges set by Highways England, Bristol City Council, Transport for the North, England’s¬†Economic Heartland¬†the London Air Quality Commission¬†and Transport Scotland. These challenges require innovative technical solutions to problems involving customer service and / or network efficiency and / or safety and security and /or performance.

Each shortlisted candidate will be able to exhibit their solution for free and will be asked to give a 5 minute presentation in The Hub. Each of the challenger clients will be tasked to pick a winner from the shortlist and award a prize at a special ceremony during the event on Thursday November 9th. Winners will receive various levels of non-financial support from the challenger client.

Click here to download the challenges and click here to apply.

Application closing date : 22nd September

For general enquiries contact Andrew Dowding.