Maximising the Durability of Road Repair, Maintenance and Improvements Works Overview
- Course focuses on understanding road pavement distress causes and achieving maximum durability of work.
- Suitable for those involved in highway repair, maintenance, or new construction.
- Covers deterioration of road pavements, surface courses, bitumens, aggregates, and asphalt.
- Includes guidance on pavement design, selection and specification of courses, and recycling practices.
- Practical exercises and e-support provided for delegates to enhance learning and support.
Overview
The Roads Training course aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of road pavement distress and premature surface course failure. It is designed for individuals involved in highway repair and maintenance or new construction, regardless of prior experience. The course covers topics such as pavement deterioration, asphalt basics, surface course selection, and practical exercises. Delegates receive course notes and e-mail support for two years post-course. The training concludes with hands-on exercises to address maintenance issues effectively.
Who should attend
Highway Repair and Maintenance, Construction Supervisors
Course Content
Roads Training
Overview
The two most recent very severe winters have highlighted the need for a wider understanding of the causes of premature surface course failure and other elements of pavement distress.
This course is suitable for anyone involved in the design, specification, construction or supervision of highway repair and maintenance or new construction.
It assumes no previous experience of dealing with these works so is especially suitable for delegates who are new to road repair and maintenance or new construction. However, it also serves to both remind more experienced delegates of the fundamental requirements to achieve maximum durability of work and to up-date their technical knowledge. .
Course content.
Understanding the deterioration of different types of road pavements
Why we have so many poor surface courses and the affects on the underlying layers
Bitumens and aggregates, it is vital to understand the basics
Hot mix asphalt, essential requirements to maximise durability if laid correctly on site.
The essentials of non-concrete pavement design
Guidance on the selection and specification of asphalt binder courses and bases
Guidance on selection the selection and specification of surface courses
Recycling to provide asphalt and non-asphalt bases
Recycling old asphalts into new, good and bad practice
Repave and Retread and infra-red in-situ recycling systems
Surface dressing, micro-asphalts and bitumen rejuvenators, essential requirements
Site preparation work prior to laying asphalt, best practice and what to avoid
Asphalt paving and hand lay work, making your asphalt last as long as possible
Compaction and joints, why both are critically important, what often goes wrong
Skid resistance, factors influencing it, and setting investigatory levels
Retexturing
High friction surfacing, do you always need it? Saving costs if you do.
Course notes
Delegates are provided with a set of notes which are supplemented by any new notes written to confirm answers given on the day, to queries raised by delegates, . These are subsequently e-mailed to them.
Practical exercises for delegates
The day concludes with practical exercises in which the delegates are shown typical but varied maintenance problems and decide how to deal with them.
E-support.
The lecturer is a self-confessed asphalt anorak and offers all delegates free e-mail support on asphalt work for 2 years following the course date, or as long as he remains compus mentis, whichever is the longer..
Course duration: 1 Day
Cost: £295 + VAT
Roads Training Inverness, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dunfermline and other sites throughout the UK including onsite closed company courses are available.
Roads Training in Ghana, Nigeria and Qatar is also available.
