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.