Maintaining roads and other paved areas with shrinking budgets
- Asset management aims at network safety, serviceability, and sustainability.
- Realize aims with suitable techniques and materials.
- Course covers maintenance practices, materials, and guidance on selecting replacement surface courses.
- Suitable for highway design staff, Highway Agency MAC's staff, younger members of Local Authorities' highway maintenance organizations, and inspectors.
- Not for fully experienced highway maintenance personnel.
Overview
The one-day course on highway maintenance focuses on achieving network safety, serviceability, and sustainability within shrinking maintenance budgets. It covers various maintenance practices and materials, including patching, recycling techniques, and surface course selection. Suitable for highway design staff, Highway Agency MAC employees, younger Local Authorities' staff, and inspectors needing guidance on maintenance treatments. Participants are encouraged to share problem sites for discussion. The course is not intended for fully experienced highway maintenance personnel.
Who should attend
Highway Design Staffs, Highway Agency MAC's Staff, Younger Members, Inspectors
Course Content
Course outline
Asset management has three main aims
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• Network safety
• Network serviceability
• Network sustainability
To realise these aims, especially in a period of shrinking maintenance budgets, all highway maintenance work should be planned to make use of the most suitable techniques and materials and the work itself should be carried out using recognised best practice.
The course covers a wide range of maintenance practices and materials including manual and machine patching, arresting surface course deterioration, shallow in-situ recycling, full depth recycling both in-situ and ex-situ, provides detailed guidance on the selection of replacement surface courses to meet specific environmental and physical site conditions.
It also examines a range of sites with maintenance problems and gives maintenance guidance for each example.
Delegates are encouraged to send the course lecturer non-attributable slides of their own problem sites so these can be discussed on the day.
• The course is especially suitable for Highway design staffs now needing re-training or updating on cost-effective highway maintenance methods
• Staff employed in Highway Agency MAC’s who will be working with substantially reduced budgets
• Younger members of Local Authorities’ highway maintenance organisations who might be unfamiliar with the best practices of day to day maintenance methods and money saving techniques
• Inspectors requiring guidance on what maintenance treatment to use in various situations and recognising causes of poor quality maintenance work
Not For
Fully experienced highway maintenance personnel
