Bridge Assessment and Maintenance
- Over 160,000 UK bridge structures need clear guidance on assessment and maintenance.
- Course provides key guidance on bridge assessment and maintenance strategies.
- Delegates will understand bridge performance issues and develop repair strategies.
- Tutors are Chartered Civil Engineers with extensive experience in bridge structures.
- Course covers common bridge defects, survey planning, design assessment, and repair systems.
Overview
This two-day course focuses on providing guidance for assessing and maintaining bridge structures in the UK. It covers the deterioration of common bridge materials, Highways Agency requirements, and maintenance procedures. The course aims to help delegates understand bridge performance issues and develop appropriate assessment, maintenance, and repair strategies. By the end of the course, participants should be able to identify defects, plan surveys, conduct design assessments, select repair systems, and specify repair programs. The course is designed for professional staff involved in the assessment and maintenance of road and rail bridges.
Who should attend
Consulting Engineers, Highway Authorities
Course Content
Course duration: 2 Days
Cost: £695 + VAT
There are over 160,000 bridge structures in the UK covering centuries of design and construction practices. Many are currently subjected to performance requirements in excess of the original design parameters including higher loads, greater traffic volumes and extended design life.
The continued utilisation of bridges under these enhanced operating conditions necessitates clear guidance on the assessment and maintenance of the structures.
This comprehensive two-day course provides key guidance on the assessment and maintenance of bridge structures and will enable the delegate to understand the problems associated with bridge performance and develop appropriate assessment, maintenance and repair strategies.
Day one considers the deterioration of the most common bridge materials – concrete, masonry and steel – and develops strategies for testing, repair and replacement programmes.
Day twoconsiders Highways Agency guidance and requirements and utilises a number of case studies to develop assessment and maintenance procedures. In addition, problem areas such as joints, bearings and waterproofing are considered and the overall management of maintenance programmes discussed.
The tutors are Chartered Civil Engineers with extensive industrial experience in the design, construction, assessment and maintenance of bridge structures for consultants, contractors and public bodies. Their collective experience also covers research, publications and consulting on a wide range of structural problems and materials.
This course utilises notes, presentations, tutorials and delegate discussion to address the key aspects of bridge assessment and maintenance in the UK.
Objectives
At the end of this course the delegates should be able to:
Recognise the common cause of defects in bridges
Plan a survey and interpret the results
Carry out a design assessment to Highways Agency requirements
Select appropriate maintenance and repair systems
Specify a cost-effective repair programme
Intended for
Professional staff employed by consulting engineers, highway authorities and other bodies responsible for the assessment and maintenance of road and rail bridges.
Outline Programme
Deterioration of concrete
Testing of concrete
Deterioration and testing of masonry
Deterioration and testing of steelwork
Steelwork repairs
Aspects of repair/replacement options
Current Highways Agency requirements
Planning an inspection and preparing for an assessment to Highways Agency requirements
Problems with joints/bearings and waterproofing
Management for maintenance and cost-effective repair programmes
