An introduction to Highway Maintenance & Construction
- Course for new entrants into Highways Maintenance and construction.
- Increasing budgetary pressures challenge protecting highway networks.
- Experienced staff update on cost-effective maintenance practices.
- Illustrated lectures and group exercises for delegates.
- Post-course presentations for further guidance and benefit.
Overview
Highway Maintenance Training is designed for new entrants and experienced highways staff to learn cost-effective maintenance practices. The course includes lectures, group exercises, and post-course presentations covering topics like asphalt deterioration, road surface decay, and skid resistance. Led by industry veteran Jeff Farrington, the course aims to equip delegates with practical knowledge for maintaining road networks efficiently. Delegates receive online access to the lecturer for additional guidance. The course runs from 9.30 am to 5 pm with breaks.
Who should attend
Highways Staff
Course Content
A course for new entrants into Highways Maintenance and construction
Increasing budgetary pressures make it ever more difficult to protect a Local Authority’s most valuable asset, its highway network.
This course is for experienced highways staff wanting to update on cost-effective highway maintenance practices and for less experienced staff to learn about them.
The course comprises a series of illustrated lectures interspersed with group exercises for delegates.
Individual presentations include:-
- How asphalt is made and how it deteriorates
- What surfacing, binder course and base asphalts to use where
- How to make them last as long as possible.
- How to arrest the decay of the Council’s road surfaces
- Making best use of planings and highway arisings.
- Cheaper, non-asphalt base materials
- Dealing with old tarmacadam and old tar surface dressings
- Transport, paving and compaction
Delegates also receive several post-course presentations which delegates can digest at their leisure, with on-line access to the course lecturer enabling them to receive additional guidance to ensure they derive the fullest benefit from the course material.
These include:
- Dealing with areas with poor skid resistance
- Quiet road surfaces
- Hand-laying, best practice
- Strengthening and widening minor rural roads
- Sampling and testing asphalts and understanding test results.
The course starts at 9.30 and finishes at 5pm with two 15 minute comfort breaks and an hour’s lunch break. The course lecturer, Jeff Farrington, has more than 40 year’s experience in road maintenance and construction and membership of national and international committees dealing with the production and best practice use of road materials.
Who Should Attend
Location
Highway Maintenance Training Scotland, Inverness, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Perth, London, Cornwall, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and other sites throughout the UK including onsite closed company courses are available.
