Course duration: 1 Day

Cost: £295 + VAT

THE COURSE

If you manage, supervise, execute or inspect Utility excavations and reinstatements then this course is for you. The course will be of benefit to anyone in the Streetworks business; it will:

•Help Utility Company staff and their contractors to understand material choices and properties and to choose the correct materials and processes for the job. This will allow the production of specification-compliant work with minimal risk of failure and reduced potential for defects.

•Provide greater knowledge, which will allow more robust defences if unjustified defects are raised.

•Improve sustainability by explaining the opportunities for recycling and the options for using ‘alternative’ materials.

•Aid Highway Authority staff in identifying defects which, if not spotted, may represent a maintenance liability, unnecessarily using up precious highway authority money and other resources to repair.

•Increase compliance with the standard, which will reduce the risk of 3rd party insurance claims for vehicle damage due to potholes and for personal injury in the event of skidding accidents on non-compliant and slippery road surfaces.

•Reduce the amount of poor quality work, which is bad publicity for Utility Company and Highway Authority alike.

So let’s work together to improve things!

PROGRAMME

8.45 Registration, Coffee/Tea

9.30 Excavation, Backfill & Sub-base

11.00 Coffee/Tea

11.20 Asphalt Properties, Terminology & Specification

12.50 Lunch

1.30 Aggregate Properties

2.00 Bitumen Grades

2.10 Laying Asphalt

3.00 Coffee/Tea

3.15 Ancillary Activities

3.30 Assessment of the Finished Job

4.00 Close

THE SPEAKER

The speaker will be Phil Cartmail who is Laboratory Testing Manager for Staffordshire County Council. He has over 35 years’ experience in the testing and assessment of civil engineering processes and materials, and has particular expertise in the specification, laying and performance of asphalt mixtures. Since 1998 he has been a member of the Working Group which produced the last two editions of SROH.

He is a Tutor for the Highways Open Tech and has provided SROH training for a number of English and Welsh local authorities and utility organisations.

*This training course has been endorsed by CIHT for CPD purposes.