ADEPT Live Labs 2: Edition 4
January is over, February is here and now the build-up to conference season can really begin!
Our Live Labs 2 projects are all busily preparing for Expo 2025, ready to present and celebrate all their latest results, achievements and developments.
Get ready and secure your 25th March Expo ticket here: https://www.adeptlivelabs.org.uk/apply-to-attend
Don’t forget that this year’s Expo features an incredible opportunity for SMEs working in the decarbonisation of highways to pitch to a panel of sector-leading ‘Dragons’ including:
Rupert Furness, Deputy Director, Local Highways and Active Travel & Sarah Sharples FREng, Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Transport (DfT), United Kingdom
Angela Halliwell, Head of Carbon & Air Quality Group, National Highways
Mike Batheram, Market Director, Local Transport, AtkinsRéalis
Pitch slots are VERY limited and going fast, only 6 spaces remain and 3 of those have applications pending. Miss it, miss out.
Register your interest to pitch here. https://www.adeptlivelabs.org.uk/live-innovation-pitches. There’s also still time to become a sponsor.
To kick-off a jampacked events and conference season, Live Labs 2 Programme director Giles Perkins will be attending Interchange 2025 on the 4th and 5th of March. He’ll be updating the audience on the Live Labs 2 programme and providing a sneak preview of the Expo hot topics.
Interchange 2025 is the only integrated transport infrastructure event designed to stimulate new ideas and establish new relationships - a platform where all contribute equally, and diversity enriches conversations and broadens understanding
So, with less than two months to go until both this year’s Interchange and Expo, now’s the time to book your FREE spot at the Interchange ADEPT Live Labs 2 session on Weds 5th March using code ADEPT25 https://meetingsofminds.com/meetingsminds_interchange-reg_attreg-register/
And you can book your Live Labs 2 Expo 2025 spot here https://www.adeptlivelabs.org.uk/apply-to-attend
Each of the Live Labs 2 projects have had a great start to 2025, and their highlights include:
The East Riding of Yorkshire Council project have been working on a new monthly newsletter and have also been actively updating the information on their website as new elements come online. They are delighted to now have information on the test sites going live as they roll out across Partner LHAs. You can track their progress here
The Wessex Partnership: Net Zero Corridors project were the subject of January’s Live Labs 2 blog post. Written by Mike O'Dowd-Jones, lead officer for the Wessex project and Service Director of Infrastructure and Transport for Somerset Council. The blog explores the latest information on the net zero corridors project and you can read it in full here: https://www.adeptnet.org.uk/news/live-labs-2-blog-update-wessex-project
The Wessex team also welcomed a new all-electric gritter to the Hampshire County Council fleet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLNDDC-tzkM
The zero emissions vehicle will be trialled over the colder months on the A30 in the Cadnam and Netley Marsh!
South Gloucestershire Council and West Sussex County Council’s Greenprint project shared a valuable newsletter in January, full of updates and key information on the different strands of the project. You can find it here: https://mailchi.mp/1df3a2d8d563/the-greenprint-project-january-2025
The North Lanarkshire Council and Transport for West Midlands teams made decarbonising winter road maintenance the focus of their most recent project update, a timely update considering the recent extreme weather conditions experienced across the country. Read the full article here: https://decarbonisingroads.co.uk/news/challenges-in-decarbonising-winter-road-maintenance-1/
Liverpool City Council's 'Ecosystem of Things' project has completed exciting new graphic design work featuring Liverpool’s iconic Liver Birds. This is on their new LinkedIn page. You can stay up to date on the Liverpool Live Lab’s collaboration between Liverpool City Council and key innovation and supply chain partners, by following: Liverpool City Council Colas Ltd, Pell Frischmann, Bird & Bird, Liverpool John Moores University, Proving Services, City Of Aberdeen, SD, GAP Group Limited and Newcastle City Council.
In Devon on the Devon County Council’s A382 - Carbon Negative project, biochar is the team’s focus. You can keep up to date on the project’s developments and all the latest comms on biochar here: https://www.devon.gov.uk/a382-carbon-negative-road/project-progress/
All these updates and much, much more will be part of each project’s presentations at the Live Labs 2 Expo 2025 – don’t forget to apply asap for your chance to attend
https://www.adeptlivelabs.org.uk/apply-to-attend
Live Labs 2 is a £30m three-year, UK-wide programme, developed by ADEPT and funded by the Department for Transport (DfT), United Kingdom, that aims to decarbonise the local highway network.
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