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Overview

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

• Gain insight into the history and principles of asset management.
• Learn to assess pavement conditions and understand the benefits and costs of evaluating roadway infrastructure.
• Develop skills for defining scope, data needs, and testing frequency for pavement evaluation.
• Understand the use of specialized equipment and performance models for predicting future asset conditions.
• Master the use of asset condition dashboards and best practices in asset management.

Description
The need to preserve our municipal roadway pavement infrastructure is paramount to ensuring the viability of the transportation of people and goods. This requires ever-increasing investments because the road infrastructure is typically the most valuable asset owned by public agencies. The consequence of the lack of systematic maintenance and renewal is accelerated deterioration of the asset condition, which then requires a more expensive treatment to return the asset to a serviceable condition. 

This webinar provides an understanding of the basics of pavement condition evaluation, what the data means, and how it can be used to improve pavement maintenance and rehabilitation decision-making. Timely and appropriate intervention can lead to longer pavement life and higher quality experience for the users of our infrastructure and, when used as an effective part of asset management, reduce the overall life-cycle cost of the roadway network. 

Who Should Attend

• Planners, engineers and technical staff involved in the implementation of an asset management system
• Municipal agency personnel involved in the delivery of transportation infrastructure
• Municipal staff and consultants involved in the condition monitoring of municipal assets
• Municipal council members and managers responsible for municipal assets

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Syllabus

Course Outline

This course provides a practical approach to the cost-effective assessment of pavement conditions and covers:

• History and background of asset management
• Pavement surface condition evaluation
• Structural capacity assessment
• Surface smoothness determination
• Pavement surface friction testing
• Ground penetrating radar
• Performance model development
• Examples of asset condition dashboards

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.