The role of NDT in the assessment of asset integrity seminar and Burns Supper 2025
Friday 31 January 2025 The Golden Jubilee Conference Hotel, Glasgow, UK
This one-day seminar, will take place from 10h00-15h00 at the Golden Jubilee Conference Hotel, Beardmore Street, Clydebank, Glasgow G81 4SA, on Friday 31 January 2025.Asset integrity management (AIM) has evolved as an economic but targeted methodology that is designed to optimise the operational life and safety of ageing power and process plant. The process requires close collaboration between a range of inspection and assessment disciplines:
- Risk based inspection (RBI)
- Written schemes of examination (WSE)
- Plant (visual) inspection
- Condition monitoring (CM)
- NDT (encompassing non-invasive inspection (NII))
- Fitness for service (FFS) assessments
- Run/repair/replace decision-making.
This seminar will explain the various stages and describe the role and importance of NDT in the AIM process. It will include several presentations by field experts and a panel discussion supported by an exhibition of NDT providers and equipment suppliers.
The seminar will be of interest to anyone with a role or interest in plant integrity. It is an exceptional CPD opportunity for all and for NDT personnel to gain PCN points.
The Golden Jubilee Conference Hotel is located on the banks of the River Clyde in Glasgow, only a ten-minute walk from Dalmuir Station and a 20-minute drive from the city centre and airport.
BINDT has secured a limited number of bedrooms at the Golden Jubilee Conference Hotel at significantly discounted rates. Please ensure your accommodation booking is completed as soon as possible to avoid disappointment as rooms will be allocated on a strictly ‘first-come, first-served’ basis.
| Booking information | |||
| Standard room – single occupancy with full breakfast | £105.00 including VAT per night | ||
| Standard room – double occupancy with full breakfast | £115.00 including VAT per night | ||
To book accommodation and secure the allocated discounted rates for the Golden Jubilee Conference Hotel, Beardmore Street, Clydebank, Glasgow G81 4SA, contact the hotel directly by telephone at +44 (0)141 951 6006 or email GJNH.Conferences@gjnh.scot.nhs.uk, stating that you are attending the BINDT Scottish Branch Seminar. The reservations team will require card details to secure the booking.
To view or download the seminar booking form, click here.
| Programme (all technical presentations will be held in the Auditorium, the exhibition will be held in the Central Plaza and the Burns Supper will be held in the Beardmore) | ||
| Time | Activity | Chairs/Speakers |
| 09h30-10h20 | Registration, exhibition, networking and tea/coffee | |
| Morning session chairs: Fraser Hardie, Scottish Branch Member and Mark Perston, Evident Europe GmbH – UK Branch | ||
| 10h20-10h30 | Welcome and introduction to the seminar | Fraser Hardie, Scottish Branch Member, UK |
| 10h30-10h55 | An integrity management journey | Iain McDowall, Altrad Babcock, UK |
| 10h55-11h20 | Practical robotics applications for asset integrity | Marc Whitton, Air Control Entech, UK |
| 11h20-11h45 | NDT validation – An operators view | Conor Douglas, BP, UK |
| 11h45-12.00 | Exhibitor spotlight session: 11.45-11.46 Technology Design Ltd 11.46-11.47 Eddyfi Technologies 11.47-11.48 RSL NDT Ltd 11.48-11.49 Agility NDE Ltd 11.49-11.50 Guided Ultrasonics Ltd 11.50-11.51 Peak NDT Ltd 11.51-11.52 Argyll Ruane Ltd CAN Group Evident Europe GmbH – UK Branch Inspection Connection Ltd Sonatest Ltd The Phased Array Company (TPAC) University of Northampton | |
| 12h00-14h00 | Lunch, exhibition and tea/coffee | |
| Afternoon session chair: Professor Tony Gachagan, University of Strathclyde | ||
| 14h00-14h25 | Inspection engineering – The PCN approach | Paul Wilkinson, Wilkinson Coutts, UK |
| 14h25-14h50 | NDT and asset integrity – A nuclear perspective | Blair Forrest and David Bell, EDF, UK |
| 14h50-15h30 | Exhibition and tea/coffee | |
| 15h30-16h10 | Panel and discussion session | Professor Tony Gachagan, Mark Perston, Fraser Hardie, Iain McDowall, Marc Whitton, Conor Douglas, Paul Wilkinson, Blair Forrest and David Bell |
| 16h10 | Seminar close | |
| 18h00-19h00 | Networking/Bar opens | |
| 19h00-23h30 | Burns Supper starts in the Beardmore | |
An NDT table-top exhibition will take place from 10h00-16h00. The exhibition is open to all members, non-members, visitors and students FREE of charge. (Free attendance does not include lunch). Delegates of the seminar have the opportunity to visit the exhibition during the tea/coffee and lunch breaks.
To view or download the exhibitor booking form, click here.
| Exhibitors | ||
| Stand number | Company | Website |
| 2 | Agility NDE Ltd |  www.agility-nde.com |
| 11 | Argyll Ruane Ltd |  www.argyllruane.com |
| 8 | CAN Group |  www.cangroup.net |
| 4 | Eddyfi Technologies |  www.eddyfi.com |
| 13 | Evident Europe GmbH – UK Branch |  www.evidentscientific.com |
| 7 | Guided Ultrasonics Ltd |  www.guided-ultrasonics.com |
| 10 | Inspection Connection Ltd |  www.inspectionconnection.co.uk |
| 3 | Peak NDT Ltd |  www.peakndt.com |
| 6 | RSL NDT Ltd |  www.rslndt.com |
| 9 | Sonatest Ltd |  www.sonatest.com |
| 1 | Technology Design Ltd |  www.technologydesign.com |
| 5 | The Phased Array Company (TPAC) |  Logo.jpg) www.thephasedarraycompany.com |
| 12 | University of Northampton |  www.northampton.ac.uk |
In the evening from 18h00 for 19h00, following a networking period, the venue will host the Annual Burns Supper, a celebration of the life and works of Robert Burns, with music, songs and dancing.Individual tickets or company tables can be booked, subject to availability. Places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment.
To view or download the Burns Supper booking form, click here.
For further information contact:
Events and Awards Department, The British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing,
Midsummer House, Riverside Way, Bedford Road, Northampton NN1 5NX, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)1604 438300; Email: conf@bindt.org
