Highways | Contract

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WelcomeMARK ROWE

Housekeeping

• Emergency procedures

• Welfare facilities

• Mobile phones

Highways | Contract

Feedback: Strategic Partnering Board

MARK ROWE

Health & Safety

We have launched our new Health and Safety programme.

Think Safe, Home Safe.

We have had no lost time incidents for 15 months.

1 dangerous occurrence.

Reach Back to Shareholders

• Renewable energy assessment for Peter Kelsbie.

• Passenger Transport contracts support for Helen Morris.

• Planning advice for ECC waste local plan for Andrew Cook

• 5 year flood mitigation programme for Graham Thomas.

• Infrastructure Strategy for Sonia Davidson-Grant.

BS11000 – Collaborative Working Driving Greater Efficiency

• Essex Highways is one of the first, if not the first, contracts of its kind to achieve the BS11000 certification.

• Management system for collaborative working.

Funding for Tranche 1 schemes approved on 20 March 2015.

Includes: Colchester P & R, Colchester LSTF, Colchester Town Centre, South Essex LSTF, Basildon integrated package Phase 1.

New KPI Framework has been developed jointly with the Client team to ensure close alignment to ECC outcomes.

There are 42 instead of over 100 KPIs that will be in place for 2015/16 along with a set of supporting Business Measures.

PMO Office – New suite of KPIs

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ECC Outcome indicator

1 A1 AC1 Condition of PR1 Network X X Y

2 A2 AC2 Condition of PR2 Network X X Y

3 A3 AC3 Condition of Local Roads X X Y

4 A4 AC4 SCANNER RCI. PR1 Mid Bands X X

5 A5 AC5 SCANNER RCI. PR2 Mid Bands X X

6 A8 AC6 Condition of Footways 1&2 X X Y

7 A9 AC7 Condition of footways 3&4 X X Y

8 A15 AC8 % of all lighting assets working as planned X X

9 A16 AC9 Bridge Condition Score X X

10 A27 AC10 Repudiation rate of Highway Insurance Claims X X

11 A29 AC11 Timely and accurate asset inventory updates X X

12 A32 AC12 % P2 defects repaired / made safe within timescales X X X

13 CM20 AC13 Availability of Confirm

14 XX AC14 Reduction in preventable flooding incidents X Y

15 A25 JTR1 Timely completion of winter gritting routes. X X

16 A31 JTR2 Average time to make network available following a P1 defect X X

17 C1 JTR3 Journey Time Reliability - (10 specified and agreed routes) X Y

18 C2 JTR4 Compliance to permitting requirements X

19 C9 JTR5 Fault rate of ITS equipment X X

20 XX PD1 Timely delivery of the capital renewal programme X

21 XX PD2 Timely delivery of the ITS programme X

22 XX PD3 Timely delivery of the major projects programme X X

23 XX PD4 Timely delivery of the structures programme X

24 XX PD5 Timely delivery of the Local Highways Panel (LHP) programme X X X

25 XX PD6 Timely delivery of the S106 Programme X X

27 XX PD8 Timely delivery of SWAS programme X

28 A17 SE1 Scheduled bridge inspections completed in time X X

29 A30 SE2 % P1 defects attended within 2 hours X X

30 S1 SE3 Number of KSI on Essex roads X Y

31 S2 SE4 Number of Slight Injuries on Essex roads X

32 S4 SE5 Effectiveness of casualty reduction schemes X X

33 S8 SE6 Timeliness and quality of highway safety inspections X

34 XX SE7 Reduction in the cost per tonne of waste X

35 A7 CP1 Satisfaction with the condition of roads (NHT) X

36 A35 CP2 Development Management satisfaction survey X

37 C3 CP3 Public satisfaction with traffic levels and congestion (NHT) X X

38 C4 CP4Public satisfaction with the time taken to complete road works (NHT)

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39 S3 CP5 Satisfaction with road safety locally (NHT) X X Y

40 SC3 CP6 Satisfaction with cycle routes and facilities (NHT) X

41 SC5 CP7 Public rights of way that are easy to use X X

42 XX CP8 Satisfaction with the condition of pavements and footpaths (NHT) X

Customer Perception

Asset Condition

Journey Time Reliability

Capital Programme Delivery

Safety & Environment

Essex Highways Performance Measures - 2015/16

ECC Outcomes. Primary outcome shaded in GREEN

Initiative developed in conjunction with Braintree and others.

Being promoted as a free community project and therefore receiving good media coverage, including BBC.

Road Safety Training

In March 2015 Highways rolled out Essex’s first LED pilot.

1700 LEDs were fitted in 6 Essex towns:• Stansted Mountfitchet• Burnham Town• Maldon Town• Great Dunmow• Saffron Walden• Colchester Town

The pilot will run for a year to monitor energy consumption and lighting levels.

Street Lighting

• The new Essex County Council permit scheme went “live” on 16th March 2015.

• First week – 1196 permits processed, 70% granted, 24% refused, 6% superseded.

Permit Scheme

In December, we launched the first of our quarterly staff newsletters.

Staff have chosen a new title:

The Highway Post

The latest edition will be launched in time for Easter.

So far, response to the newsletter has been overwhelmingly positive.

Quarterly Staff Newsletter

Commenced in December and due to complete at the end of March. Targeting over 1,500 defects in:

• Braintree• Billericay• Shenfield• Maldon• Loughton• Kelvedon• Brentwood

Town Centre Footways

Apprenticeships and Education

We have also engaged with the Anglia Ruskin University. We have attended their graduate fair and are offering summer placements to 15 civil engineering students.

We have provided over 50 apprenticeships in Essex Highways.

We have engaged with the University of Essex and will be attending their graduate recruitment fair in April. Further engagement events being planned for the Autumn.

Jaywick exhibition and engagement session on 25th February.

Over 100 responses to the Highways survey asking for views on how Essex County Council’s £5 million investment for Jaywick roads should be spent.

Top priorities for residents:

• Resurfacing roads

• Drainage

• Potholes

• Street lighting

Stakeholder Engagement: Jaywick

• Dedicated jetting unit and repairs gang based on Canvey Island supported by up to three further gangs to deal with repairs.

• £670,000 set aside for Highways to investigate and repair defective gullies.

• Identified over 1,580 drainage defects, 1,032 have been cleared.

• A further 270 have been passed to Anglian Water. 

• Canvey Island gully survey on 2nd February to map all highways drainage assets on the Island.

Canvey Island: Highways Response to Floods

ITN Productions completed filming in Essex for their fly-on-the-wall documentary, Roadworks Ahead!. Broadcast is expected in late May or June.

There was 232 pieces of Highways coverage in February with 5:2 positive/neutral to negative.

Cllr Rodney Bass was the most prominent spokesperson, in line with January’s result, appearing in 57 articles.  

Media Management

PR1 & PR2

In 2014 the number of potholes on our PR1 and PR2 networks fell from approximately 4,570 to around 450.

Today, just 2.6% of Essex’s Priority 1 and 2 routes require structural maintenance, compared to 4.6% a year ago and 6.0% in 2012.

Essex Air Ambulance is Highways’chosen charity

Events held to raise money include

• Cricket match and barbecue

• Christmas jumper day

• Dress down Fridays

Our supply chain generously donated over £500 at our recent supply chain conference

Total raised in first 9 months = £1720

Corporate Social Responsibility

S12A 24-hour notice for PRoW cutting issued to the landowner at approximately 5pm on Tuesday.

Phone message received at 6pm on Tuesday stating that it had been cut.

Photograph taken Friday to confirm.

Enforcement - PRoW

Works commenced on the 1st December and completed on 24th February.

A total of 240 miles of hedges on the PR1 network and 184 miles on the PR2 network were cut, slightly further than the distance between Chelmsford and Edinburgh.

Hedge Cutting Programme

Dedicated left slip at the Army and Navy Roundabout openened early March.

Essex Highways has successfully delivered this key scheme below budget and opened to traffic 10 days ahead of the planned completion date of 31st March 2015.

Army and Navy - Works

Held on 4th February, attended by over 100 people from the Essex Highways Supply Chain.

Launched, Think Safe, Home Safe, the Essex Highways objectives, and our proposed supply chain incentivisation programme.

Supply Chain Conference

Highways | Project Delivery

The Cost of IncidentsANDY TURNER

21st March 1999, 18:30

• Fatigue• Failure to provide safe systems of work• Distraction (use of mobile phone)• Lack of risk assessment/control• Lack of training• Inadequate PPE (compared with current standards)• Failure to provide and operate to method statements• Failure to work within the Working Time Directive• Rushing (this was not the case)• Lighting conditions• Provision of welfare• Failure of Principal Contractor to manage supply chain• Experience• Speeding• Failure to assess risk

• Failure to provide safe systems of work• Distraction (use of mobile phone)• Lack of risk assessment/control• Lack of training• Inadequate PPE (compared with current standards)• Failure to provide and operate to method statements• Failure to work within the Working Time Directive• Rushing (this was not the case)• Lighting conditions• Provision of welfare• Failure of Principal Contractor to manage supply chain• Experience• Speeding• Failure to assess risk

Root Causes

The Cost of Incidents

• Loss of Life

• Prosecution

• Lost loved one

• Knock-on impact

This event is a possibility on our Contract.

If you see it, stop it.

Silence is consent.

Highways | Major Projects

Advance Design Schemes2015 - 2016

ERWIN DEPPE

Major Projects Overview of 2015/16

Service 2014/15 2015/16

Feasibility (TP) £2m £2m

Advance design £3m £5m

EH D&B (< £500k) £5m £8m

Others (> £500k) £6m £15m

Chelmsford NE   £2m

A120   £2m

Combined £16m £34m

North & Mid-Essex

Colchester LSTF £0.1m

Colchester Integrated Transport Package (Town Centre) £0.25m

Colchester Integrated Transport Package (Borough) £0.2m

Colchester Stanway Pinch Point Package: A12 access slips & improved access around Stanway (B1022 - Heckford bridge) and Berechurch Hall Road

£0.1m

A414 Maldon to Chelmsford Route Based Strategy £0.17m

Chelmsford City Growth Area Scheme £0.5m

North & Mid-Essex Subtotal £1.32m

West Essex & Stansted Gateway

M11 Junction 7A £1.4m

A414 Pinch Point Package: (A414: First Avenue & Cambridge Road Junction) £0.3m

Harlow Integrated Transport Package £0.2m

M11 J8 Pinch Point Package £0.4m

West Essex Subtotal £2.3m

South Essex

A127 Capacity Enhancements; A127 Fairglen junction improvements - £15m £0.46m

A127 Capacity Enhancements; A127 Road safety and network resilliance package - £4m £0.1mSouth Essex LSTF Programme £0.07m

Basildon Integrated Transport Package £0.15m

Rochford Pinch Point Package - Southend Airport Access Package £0.2m

Shenfield Crossrail Station Improvements £0.4mSouth Essex Subtotal £1.38mCombined Total £5m

Highways | Network

Update: Access To ECC Systems For RJ Staff/ECC Governance

LIZ BURR

Highways | Road Safety

Road Safety

NICOLA FOSTER

KSI Data

2014 KSI Casualties

2014 KSI Collisions

Slights Data

2014 Slight Casualties

2014 Slight Collisions

Highways | Network & Safety

Essex Permit Scheme – The Journey So Far

MARK REDGEWELL

The Team

Some Facts & Figures Permits Processed (16/03 to 25/03)

• Total = 2117• Accepted = 70% (1478)

• Superseded = 8% (136)

• Refused = 22% (458)

Main Reasons for Refusals/Modification Refusal • Wrong location details• Incorrectly mapped• Lack of information• Duration not acceptable• Wrong conditions used• Lack of lead in time

Some Facts & FiguresPermits Processed - ECC work promoter

• Total = 487

• Accepted = 74% (358)

• Superseded = 13% (58)

• Refused = 13% (62)

Main Reasons for NO Refusals/Modification Refusal by Permit Team

• Soft Start

• Training concerns raised by ECC work promoters

• Capacity – Complaints received from Planners

Essex Highways: Progress Made and Problems Solved

Permits served not up to required standard to show parity• Further Confirm training to be offered.• Offer on table for internal departments to work along side Permit team to

endeavour for joint problem solving.• One to one training as required.• Training processes and guides available.

Better communications with commitment shown• Improved communication being shown by Highways.• Capacity issues not just training issues being identified

Looking to the Future

• Greater protection of our assets

• Better co-ordination of all works

• Less congestion

• The next step - lane rental, activity footprint ?

• Lets get better together