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Overview

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

• Develop comprehensive preventive maintenance programs for your roads, ensuring long-term durability and safety.
• Strategically prioritize pavement maintenance and rehabilitation within your budget constraints, maximizing resource efficiency.
• Implement effective measures to address common pavement issues such as rutting and potholes, enhancing road performance.
• Preserve bituminous pavement through innovative thin surface treatments, extending pavement life and improving ride quality.
• Apply best practices in constructing asphalt, concrete roads, and sidewalks, ensuring high-quality and sustainable infrastructure.

Description
Effective pavement preventive maintenance is essential for maintaining the quality and longevity of our roads and highways, which are vital to the overall health of the economy. By improving ride quality, extending pavement life, and ensuring safety, these maintenance programs facilitate the safe and efficient movement of people and goods. Proper maintenance also reduces long-term repair costs, making it a cost-effective strategy for infrastructure management. Moreover, well-maintained roads contribute to a positive public perception and satisfaction.

This workshop delves into the principles of coordinated preventive maintenance and its integration into a pavement and asset management framework for municipal agencies. You will gain in-depth knowledge of preventive maintenance techniques that elevate your road inspection and maintenance capabilities. The focus is on practical construction and contract inspection methods and products that enhance pavement longevity.

Who Should Attend
This course is designed for a diverse group of professionals responsible for maintaining and managing road infrastructure. It will benefit municipal and consulting engineers, technologists, and supervisory construction personnel.

Additionally, urban planners, transportation and infrastructure managers, public works officials, highway and roadway contractors, pavement technicians, environmental engineers, project managers involved in road construction and maintenance, policymakers, government officials overseeing transportation infrastructure, and academics and researchers in civil engineering and transportation will gain valuable insights.

This comprehensive approach ensures that all participants have the skills to effectively and efficiently improve road conditions.

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Syllabus

Day I

Welcome, Introduction, Workshop Preview, Learning Outcomes and the Assessment Method

Pavement Design 101

• AASHTO 1993 pavement design
• Introduction to mechanistic-empirical design

Identifying Maintenance Needs

• Pavement condition inspection techniques - surface-treated pavements

Pavement Distress Evaluation

• Manual, semi-automated and automated

Repair Methods, Surface Treated and Gravel Surface Pavements

• Area patching using hot or cold mix
• Spray patching
• Surface treatment
• Dust mitigation
• Drainage improvements

Repair Methods, Asphalt Concrete Pavements

• Crack sealing
• Patching
• Thin hot-mix overlay (
• Hot in-place recycling
• Micro-surfacing
• Slurry seal
• Surface treatment (seal coat)
• Restorative seal
• Texturization

Repair Methods, Exposed Concrete Pavements

• Partial-depth repairs
• Full-depth repairs
• Slab stitching
• Load transfer restoration
• Diamond grinding
• Under-slab sealing (grouting and foam)

Specifications

• Specification Types and Applications

Adjournment

Day II

Construction Inspection and Testing

• Asphalt concrete production and placement
• Concrete production and placement for roadways, curbs and sidewalks

Aggregates and Binders

• Properties and quality

Asphalt Mix Design

• Mix design basics
• Superpave

Asphalt Production and Delivery

• Asphalt plant types and operation
• Best practices for asphalt delivery

Paving and Compaction

• Asphalt paver components and operation
• Compaction equipment and operation
• Best practices for joint construction

Sidewalks and Recreational Trails

• Design
• Construction
• Management
• Maintenance

Design, Performance and Construction – Case Studies

Questions and Answers and Feedback to Participants on Achievement of Learning Outcomes

Concluding Remarks and Final Adjournment

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.