HISTORY
2012–2020
Essential
Infrastructure Events
Essential Infrastructure Events was launched in 2012 with the launch of Runways UK (with the UK Airports Commission), Tomorrows Rail and finally the highly successful Highways UK which launched with Highways England in 2015 and has now grown to become a major industry event with over 7,000 visitors, 250 exhibitors and 300 speakers.
2010–2015
base (business and a sustainable environment)
Base (business and a sustainable environment) launched in 2010 with a major series of events about businesses and city sustainability with editions in London, Glasgow, Birmingham, Leeds and Nantes.
2004–2006
Thames Gateway Forum
Andrew Dowding started out on his own in 2003 with the launch of the ground breaking (and award-winning) Thames Gateway Forum which was sold to UBM in 2006 (after London had successfully won the 2012 Olympic Bid).
Prior to that, he started his business to business media career at VNU in the early 1990s at the peak of the business publishing boom. This was followed by successful tenures at Emap in charge of the Civil Engineering portfolio (including NCE) and Reed Exhibitions.
