22: Lunch with Leon episode 22 - James Haluch
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\\nStripping off on the roads? The Naked Highway. If you\\u2019ve not come across the expression, then the Naked Highway is not what you might think...
\\nChatting over lunch with Leon Daniels OBE is James Haluch Managing Director \\u2013 Highways and Waste Collections, at Amey and they get to grips with what our roads should look like in the future \\u2013 and the Naked Highway is part of this.
\\nThey start by talking about what the Highways Sector Council, launched in 2019, is currently doing.\\xa0
\\nTogether, they unpick some of the big issues that are being tackled and how working with the government meant that the highways sector was able to take rapid advantage of COVID-19 to do works that otherwise weren\\u2019t possible in normal times.
\\nJames and Leon chat with a passion about changing safety culture; when you know you\\u2019ve \\u2018cracked it\\u2019 (with anecdotes) and how good safety saves money.
\\nThis neatly takes the conversation around to one of the biggest issues of recent times \\u2013 the closure of London\\u2019s Hammersmith Flyover due to structural defects \\u2013 and how it enabled \\u201cprogress to be made in very unusual ways\\u201d for the careers and knowledge of young engineers.
\\nJames chats about some of the pioneering work he\\u2019s involved in to encourage young people into engineering and how a scheme projected to \\u2018graduate\\u2019 15,000 people ended up with 125,000 awards issued.
\\nSwapping more anecdotes, they talk about dining in Belmarsh Prison and why the CEO of Thames Water was woken by a phone call at 0600 on a Sunday.
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\\nStripping off on the roads? The Naked Highway. If you\\u2019ve not come across the expression, then the Naked Highway is not what you might think...
\\nChatting over lunch with Leon Daniels OBE is James Haluch Managing Director \\u2013 Highways and Waste Collections, at Amey and they get to grips with what our roads should look like in the future \\u2013 and the Naked Highway is part of this.
\\nThey start by talking about what the Highways Sector Council, launched in 2019, is currently doing.\\xa0
\\nTogether, they unpick some of the big issues that are being tackled and how working with the government meant that the highways sector was able to take rapid advantage of COVID-19 to do works that otherwise weren\\u2019t possible in normal times.
\\nJames and Leon chat with a passion about changing safety culture; when you know you\\u2019ve \\u2018cracked it\\u2019 (with anecdotes) and how good safety saves money.
\\nThis neatly takes the conversation around to one of the biggest issues of recent times \\u2013 the closure of London\\u2019s Hammersmith Flyover due to structural defects \\u2013 and how it enabled \\u201cprogress to be made in very unusual ways\\u201d for the careers and knowledge of young engineers.
\\nJames chats about some of the pioneering work he\\u2019s involved in to encourage young people into engineering and how a scheme projected to \\u2018graduate\\u2019 15,000 people ended up with 125,000 awards issued.
\\nSwapping more anecdotes, they talk about dining in Belmarsh Prison and why the CEO of Thames Water was woken by a phone call at 0600 on a Sunday.