Selecting the Right Asphalt for any job and making sure its Laid Properly
- The course covers essential asphalt requirements in pavement layers.
- Shows asphalt deterioration causes and maintenance solutions.
- Examines mixing plant issues affecting quality.
- Emphasizes good compaction in all pavement layers.
- Aims to enable delegates to recognize asphalt properties and characteristics.
- Helps in selecting and specifying the optimum asphalt. Focuses on essential requirements in mixing, laying, and compacting asphalts.
- Suitable for younger staff, clerks of works, and experienced staff. Tutor tailors the course to meet delegates' specific needs.
- Uses over 250 real-life photos in PowerPoint presentations for active participation.
- Tutor is Jeff Farrington, an experienced asphalt troubleshooter. Jeff Farrington offers free asphalt advisory service to course attendees for 2 years.
- Recognized for CPD purposes, all delegates receive a CPD certificate.
Overview
The Asphalt Training UK course focuses on understanding asphalt properties, deterioration, and best practices for mixing, laying, and compacting. It aims to help delegates recognize asphalt mixtures for flexible roads, select the right asphalt for different sites, and ensure durability and value for money in pavement construction. Suitable for various road maintenance staff, the course includes real-life photo presentations and encourages delegate participation. The tutor, Jeff Farrington, offers extensive experience and ongoing advisory support. The course is recognized for CPD purposes and lasts one day.
Who should attend
Road Maintenance Staff, Clerks of Works, Experienced Staff
Course Content
This course on Selecting the Right Asphalt for Any Job and Making Sure It’s Laid Properlyprovides delegates with a thorough understanding of how to choose the correct asphalt for different pavement layers and ensure it is laid to achieve maximum durability. Participants will learn how to recognise asphalt defects, understand causes of deterioration, and identify best practice in mixing, transporting, and laying asphalt.
Course objectives
• The course aims to enable delegates to recognise the properties and characteristics of the many asphalt mixtures available for use in all the pavement layers in flexible roads.
• To enable them to select and correctly specify the optimum asphalt for a variety of sites.
• To recognise the essential requirements in mixing, laying, transporting, laying and compacting asphalts to achieve maximum durability and best value for money.
Who Should Attend
Location
Asphalt Training Scotland Roads Training Scotland
Additional Information
The Tutor is Jeff Farrington, CEng, MICE, MCIHT, MIAT, a self-employed asphalt trouble shooter with more than 40 years experience of specifying and using asphalts on a wide variety of sites, and a member of the Brtish Standard Committee B510/1 which maintains the UK’s asphalt standards for the last 25 years.
A self-confessed asphalt anorak he offers a free, impartial asphalt advisory service, by e-mail, to all delegates who attend his courses for 2 years following the course.
With bitumen now costing almost £600/tonne, many asphalt companies are producing mixes with blends of new bitumen and the old bitumen (from planed-out asphalts) in much greater percentages than ever before, simply to remain competitive. This requires increased laboratory testing and control if an inferior asphalt mixture is to be avoided.
It is consequently more important than ever for asphalt users to ensure any asphalt they are paying for is correctly formulated and properly handled both in production and transport and then especially when being laid and compacted on site, as failure to achieve its optimum treatment at any of these stages could drastically reduce its durability and result in even greater budgetary demands for future maintenance works.
The tutor initially invites delegates to speak of their previous experience and any particular areas of interest they wish to be covered in the day. This enables the tutor to tailor the course to meet these particular needs.
He then makes extensive use of more than 250 real life photographs illustrating the course content in a series of PowerPoint presentations, during which delegate participation is actively encouraged, and especially questions. Delegates are invited to discuss any problems they have might experienced and these could be examined and lessons be learned from them. All delegates receive fully illustrated hard copies of the presentations on which they are able to make their own notes.
