More than 100 delegates attended the Local Council Roads Innovation Group’s (LCRIG) inaugural Project Amber Collaboration Workshop at the Grand Hotel in Blackpool last week.
The event took place on 31 March and brought together local councils from across the LCRIG community, surfacing and civils contractors involved and looking to be involved in the Project Amber Framework, as well as a range of other key stakeholders for a day of sharing experiences to-date and exploring opportunities to improve and broaden collaboration across the sector.
The Project Amber Framework has been established to remove the procurement barrier to minimise effort for individual councils, with the required flexibility to tailor and suit specific needs.
Commenting on the success of the event, Chief Executive Martin Duffy said: “The event, held at the Grand Hotel in Blackpool, was exceptionally well attended by local highway authorities who all wanted to learn more about how they could access this innovative framework. The suppliers were there in great numbers as well and I personally enjoyed meeting many of them. I loved every minute of the day and was massively impressed by the quality of the presentations and the degree of interaction from the attendees.”
Watch a video of some of the event highlights (including delegates views) below:
In deciding to arrange this workshop, the LCRIG Board saw numerous potential benefits for ALL attendees which included:
- Practical application of SMART Asset Management – the Right Place, at the Right Time, with the Right Treatment
- Upskilling your own people – enabling them to make better informed decisions about the very latest new innovative optimum treatments available through a collaborative framework
- Optimise the benefits from this collaborative framework, and in doing so, fulfil your LCRIG membership obligations to embed and spread innovative working, thereby strengthening our vital sector.
For further information on Project Amber visit the Project Amber website.