Dr Geoffrey Clements discusses the importance of developing world-class highway networks for nations' economic prosperity and transportation infrastructure. Major highway projects now involve international collaboration between public and private sectors, requiring highway managers to have multidisciplinary expertise in areas like strategic planning, design, management, engineering, and stakeholder engagement. The Commonwealth Infrastructure Partners organization has over 30 years of experience in highways and bridges projects across many necessary areas of expertise, and can provide training to help develop these skills in the sector.

1. Dr Geoffrey Clements
Chairman, Commonwealth Infrastructure Partners
2019
Highways – creating world-class road
connectivity

2. Highways – creating world-class road connectivity
A first-class highways network is vital for every
nation
• An effective highways and road network is vital for the economic
prosperity of a nation
• And for its ability to have an effective import/export infrastructure

3. Highways – creating world-class road connectivity

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International partners in major highways
projects
• Major highways projects involve the participation of international
companies, international funding and collaboration between the
public and private sectors
• This creates new challenges for the highways sector
• Highway engineers and managers must have multidisciplinary
expertise
• And have working familiarity with international best practice

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Multidisciplinary expertise in the highways
sector
• Highways project managers and engineers must have broad
competence and expertise, including:
o Strategic planning
o Highway and bridge design
o Procurement
o Contract management
o Project management
o Engineering expertise
o Quality assurance
o Stakeholder management, including
consultants, contractors and client
o Highway and road design for optimum safety
and traffic discipline
o Integration with other elements of the transport
network: rail, air, inland waterways and ports
o Integration with other infrastructure sectors and
urban & rural planning and development

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CIP expertise and experience
• CIP partners have 30 years’ experience in highways and bridges
projects
• We have project experience in all the necessary areas of expertise
• We can deliver short workshops and longer diploma programmes
for this sector
• We can integrate professional training in this sector into
Professional Engineering degree level programmes

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