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Overview

After participating in this course, you will be able to:

• Understand the benefits of innovative roadway design, construction, and maintenance techniques.
• Describe the key factors that ensure the successful adoption of new processes and technologies.
• Identify sources of detailed information for deploying innovative techniques in transportation infrastructure.
• Apply advanced materials and methods like warm mix asphalt and geosynthetics to enhance project efficiency and sustainability.
• Evaluate case studies to implement best practices that improve roadway safety and construction timelines.

Description
The fast-paced evolution of roadway design, construction, and maintenance has led to the introduction of advanced techniques that significantly improve efficiency, safety, and environmental sustainability. Innovations can reduce roadways' environmental impact, construction time and costs, and safety for the travelling public and construction workers. This course delves into the latest advancements reshaping the transportation infrastructure landscape by exploring methods such as warm mix asphalt, accelerated bridge construction, and in-place recycling techniques.

Adopting cutting-edge practices in roadway construction increases durability and enhances project timelines. Through real-world case studies, participants will learn how innovations like geosynthetics and high-friction surfaces are deployed to meet modern challenges. These examples underscore the value of these techniques in creating roadways that last longer and require fewer resources over time.

Participants in this course will walk away with a stronger understanding of the most impactful roadway innovations and the knowledge to integrate these practices into their projects. Whether you are a contractor, consultant, or engineer, learning how to apply these technologies can significantly improve project outcomes.

Who Should Attend
This course is designed for architects, engineers, and technicians involved in all roadway design, construction, and maintenance aspects. Agency personnel responsible for transportation infrastructure, consultants working on pavement evaluation, and contractors looking to advance their construction methods will also benefit from attending.

Additional audiences include those interested in learning how innovative materials and processes can enhance roadway durability and safety. Government officials involved in infrastructure planning and environmental impact professionals will also find valuable insights.

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Syllabus

Course Outline

This webinar describes innovative transportation techniques and materials such as:

• Warm mix asphalt
• Magnetic imaging tomography for concrete pavements
• Pre-cast concrete slabs
• Synthetic asphalt cement
• Geosynthetics
• Infrared monitoring for asphalt compaction control
• Accelerated bridge construction
• High friction surfaces
• Next-generation concrete pavement surface texture
• In-place recycling techniques for pavement renewal

These innovations can improve our transportation infrastructure and become a standard to achieve once mastered. This webinar outlines case studies of recent innovative techniques and examples of their use, benefits and guidelines for their implementation.

Instructor

David Hein, P.Eng

David is a consulting Civil Engineer with over 38 years of experience in designing, evaluating and managing transportation infrastructure. He is the past president of the American Society of Civil Engineers Transportation and Development Institute (ASCE T&DI), chair of the Workforce Development and Codes and Standards Councils and chair of 5 engineering standards committees. He is a long-term member of the Transportation Association of Canada (TAC), Past-Chair of the pavements committee and member of the Soils and Materials and Asset Management Committees.

He is also a member of the Workforce Development Council and Chair of the Professional Development Committee. He is also a past member of the Transportation Research Board pavement management, pavement maintenance and pavement preservation committees. He has represented Canada on the World Road Association (WRA) pavements and asset management committees since 2002 and is currently the Chair of the Canadian National Committee to the WRA. He recently stepped down after 10 years as Executive Director of the Falling Weight Deflectometer User Group.

He has been involved in numerous national and international research, evaluation and asset management projects for Federal, State, Provincial and Municipal agencies and many of the public/private/ partnership highway construction projects across Canada and the United States.