BS 7533-101 - designing modular paving to last

• Public and private sector designers
• Suppliers and contractors employed by county, district and unitary councils
• UK local authorities, highway authorities and rail authorities and their supply chains
• Metropolitan authorities such as TfL, Highways England, Transport Scotland, the National Assembly for Wales and the Department for Regional Development Northern Ireland
• Airport owners, and their planners and environmental specialists for their landside operations that make extensive use of modular paving
• Architects for commercial and residential developments

• Expert insights about paving design and materials 
• A better understanding of the new structure of the BS 7533 series
• A clear explanation of the main technical changes in, and benefits of, BS 7533-101:2021

Gavin Jones has been the BSI standards development manager for the UK’s pavements portfolio of standards since 2015, managing the B/507 national technical committee which feeds into the programme for CEN/TC 178. Gavin has over 15 years’ experience in publishing, having worked in editorial roles prior to being hired into his current business-focussed role at BSI. He is a keen semi-professional violinist, and music ensemble business owner. His areas of interest in business include standards, forecasting, marketing, strategy and creativity.

Ian has had a long and distinguished career in pavement engineering, materials’ design and quality assurance. Educated at University College London he achieved a BSc (ENg) and subsequently  a Diploma in Management Studies. He is a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institution of Highway Engineers, Chartered Institute of Management, Institute of Asphalt Technology (IAT), and is chair of BSI’s B/507 paving units and kerbs and B/510/2 surface treatments technical committees. Ian was also the 2003 President of the IAT.

His awards include the SCI Construction Materials award, the 2004 Finalist Kent Environmental Awards, University of Ulster visiting professor; editor and co-author of the Road Design and Maintenance Thomas Telford and is was awarded an MBE for services to Highway Engineering.

Ian’s 35 years’ experience is at a senior level managing road pavement design and construction, operation of test laboratories, quality control, QA and standardization of construction materials nationally and in Europe. He is intimately involved with the development and implementation of new test methods, product development and performance, and road maintenance techniques. He is an expert witness on road materials’ performance and sits on a wide range of Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning & Transport committees, having also produced numerous technical papers and presentations.

Phil has been a Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute for over 35 years. For the majority of that time he has been involved in urban and public realm landscapes and has developed a particular interest in specification and detailing of modular pavements and hard landscapes.

Working for Steintec has added greatly to Phil’s depth of knowledge on pavement materials and their impact on design and specification. As Steintec Tuffbau's technical consultant he uses his particular skill set to give technical support and guidance to their professional customers: landscape architects, architects and engineers on projects from start to finish and at any point in-between. This can be project-specific or in a more general form via accredited CPD presentations.

Since joining Steintec, Phil has prepared three accredited CPD titles specifically tailored to the interest of landscape architects and engineers, identifying the critical factors key to delivery of a successful, durable modular pavement scheme.

Phil was educated at Leeds School of Architecture Landscape and Planning, attaining a BA (Hons) degree and Post Grad. DipLA in Landscape Architecture. Prior to working as Technical Consultant at Steintec he has worked in technical management roles at  Leeds City Council, Scott Wilson (now Aecom)and Acheson and Glover.

Colin Nessfield has worked in a technical, research and product development capacity in the Precast Concrete industry for the past 39 years as well as providing a wide range of technical support to manufacturers and standards development. Colin has worked at British Precast for over 16 years and represents members’ on more than 20 product and materials standards’ committees as well as working groups supporting the precast concrete industry and the wider Mineral Products supply chain in the UK, and is Convenor for two CEN paving Work Groups at European level as well as having an active role in Environmental issues and the development of Environmental Product Declarations’ standards. Colin was awarded Fellowship of the Institute of Concrete Technology, the highest professional level of recognition available to concrete technologists, in 2019 and has been an elected member of the Institute’s Council for over 20 years. He has recently been elected as Vice President of the Institute of Concrete Technology and will take over the Presidency in 2023.

Alex Patrick-Smith has been the Managing Director of Ketley Brick since 2008.  After gaining a degree in Economics at Edinburgh University and careers in banknote manufacturing and digital postproduction, Alex joined Ketley Brick which is part of Hinton Perry & Davenhill, a family business with a 215-year history specialising in the manufacture of high-end clay building products. He is also a board Member of the British Ceramic Confederation and the current Chairman of The Roof Tile Association.

Alex has in-depth experience of the manufacturing of clay paving products and their application in a variety of civic, commercial and residential projects.  He is passionate about making the case for the use of clay paving and their superior aesthetics, he also a keen advocate of UK manufacturing and local sourcing where practical.  “To see the end-to-end process of clay being dug out of the ground and then formed, dried and fired into a range of clay products that grace carriageways and buildings for the future is a highly rewarding, particularly the knowledge that these projects will look as good for their whole lifetime and will last for over 100 years”.

Backed by an engineering scholarship from British Railways, Michael graduated in Mechanical Sciences in 1968 and joined the Scottish region.   Because of the Beeching cuts there were no posts available, so in 1972 Michael joined the family business at West Thurrock in Essex as works manager.  Most unusually at that time for any manufacturing business, the managing director was female, his mother.

The business processed the flint residue by-product from the local local cement works, but in 1976 the last of these closed.  However, Michael realised that there was a need for a company supplying non-standard aggregates and then expanded into natural stone paving including salvaging old setts, kerbs and flags.   Latterly, CED Ltd has been promoting British stone paving helped by its work with the British Geological Survey 1200m2 path featuring 39 British stones.  Michael remained Managing Director until succeeded by his son, Giles, in 2013 and is now Chairman.

Michael's driving desire is to improve the streetscape and landscape environment using stone that is beautiful and long-lasting,   Representing BALI (British Association of Landscape Industries) on the B/507 committee gave him the opportunity to press for better coverage of the pedestrian categories in part 101 as well as contributing his long experience with stone.

David has been a recognised expert in the modular paving industry for over 30 years.  Currently CEO of tuffbau international and Steintec, his accomplishments include membership of the key BSI and CEN committees including: CB/300 Screeds and in-situ floorings; B/507 paving units and kerbs; B/545 Natural Stone; B/502 Maritime Works; CEN/TC 303 Screeds and in-situ floorings; CEN/TC 339 Pedestrian Slip Resistance; CEN/TC 178/WG2 Paving units and kerbs in natural stone; CEN/TC 246 Natural Stone; Swedish Institute for Standards SIS/TK 508 Natural Stone Products and ISO/TC 327 and 328 liaison groups for Stone products.  David is active in the Technical Committee of the Stone Federation of Great Britain, SFGB, and the German Stone Federation, DNV; past Chair of the industry body "British Stone" and member of the SCOTS Research Consortium for Natural Stone Surfacing, he actively promotes vocational training and is a member of the NHSS 30 Committee - Quality Management of the Installation, Maintenance and Repair of Modular Paving.  David is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.  His publications include Designing with Stone, the NHSS 30 Technical Training Manual and the SCOTS Good Practice Guide.

Thomas holds a Bachelors degree in civil engineering from the University of the West of England.

Having graduated he has worked as a site engineer on a number of highways projects. From local government maintenance contracts to motorway widening schemes. 

He joined Marshalls (The UKs largest hard landscaping materials manufacturer) in 2015 as a regional pavement engineer. As part of this role he advises and assists their customers ensuring they are compliant to the relevant design standards when using their products.

This has included working on major projects such as Battersea power station and Olympic way. In 2019 he was promoted to the role of Pavement Engineering Manager.

In 2020 he also became the technical chair of Interpave which is the precast concrete and kerb association, in this role he helps to progress and develop the research into the design and installation of precast concrete modular pavements.

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