Evaluation and Rehabilitation of Pavements

You examine implications of soils and pavement materials, roadway drainage, practical techniques for field evaluation of pavement conditions, review causes and effective remedies of pavement deterioration.

Course Outline

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

• Apply management techniques to improve the life-cycle and reduce the cost of pavements
• Benefit from your understanding of pavement design and evaluation considerations and construction procedures
• Manage your pavements more efficiently with your insight into pavement defects, their causes and solutions
• Use maintenance and rehabilitation methods to extend the useful life of existing pavements
• Compare with confidence the costs of maintenance and rehabilitation alternatives
• Assimilate and use the information from the national guide for sustainable municipal infrastructure
• Relate theory to practice

Description

Cost effective pavement management results from careful design, quality construction and timely maintenance.  Engineers and technical managers are faced with the challenges of maintaining, within shrinking budgets, the investment in highways and urban roads.  Although new materials and methods are being added to the roadway manager’s repertoire, they must accommodate increasing axle loads while continually fighting a challenging battle against rutted and cracked surfaces, pesky and dangerous depressions and potholes.

You receive the information necessary to deal with these challenges.  You examine implications of soils and pavement materials, roadway drainage, practical techniques for field evaluation of pavement conditions, review causes and effective remedies of pavement deterioration. You discuss pavement maintenance and rehabilitation techniques such as patching, crack sealing, thin surface restoration techniques, overlays, and other innovative methods and materials to cost-effectively extend the useful service life of your transportation assets.  Your understanding is further enhanced through presentations of case studies and real-life examples where you can ask all your questions about maintenance and rehabilitation.

Objective

To provide an update on pavement management, with special emphasis on materials and procedures used in design, construction, maintenance, and rehabilitation.

Who Should Attend

Maintenance, construction and design engineers, contractors, technical managers, consultants and municipal engineers with responsibility for managing maintenance budgets, determining pavement repair or rehabilitation techniques, or implementing pavement maintenance programs.  Manufacturers and suppliers of pavement materials will also find the course workshop beneficial.

Program Outline

Day I

8:00          Registration and Coffee

8:30          Welcome, Introduction, Workshop Preview, Learning Outcomes and the Assessment Method

8:45          Course Overview and Preview of the Day

9:00          Factors that Affect Pavement Performance
               • Function of a pavement
               • Factors that impact pavement performance: traffic, soils and materials, environment        

10:15         Refreshments and Networking

10:30         Pavement Design
                • AASHTO 1993:flexible pavement design, rigid pavement design, interlocking   concrete block pavement design
                • Mechanistic-empirical pavement design

12:00         Lunch

1:00          Pavement Rehabilitation
               • Surface condition evaluation
               • Roughness
               • Structural capacity
               • Friction
               • Developing alternatives for pavement rehabilitation

2:15          Refreshments and Networking

2:30          Pavement Management
               • Pavement performance evaluation
               • Systematic maintenance programs
               • Pavement economics
               • Prioritization and optimization

3:30         Pavement Type Selection and Life-Cycle Costing
             • What is the best pavement type for your application?
             • Asphalt concrete
             • Exposed concrete
             • Interlocking concrete block
             • Surface treatment/seal cost
             • Gravel
             • Deterministic life-cycle costing
             • Probabilistic life-cycle costing

4:30        Adjournment

Day II

8:30          Review of Day I and Preview of the Second Day

8:45          Pavement Rehabilitation and Maintenance Management
               • Timely preventive maintenance
               • Priority planning and programming

9:30          Pavement Maintenance
               • Roadway drainage
               • Utility boxes and covers
               • Crack sealing
                       
10:30        Refreshments and Networking

10:45        Pavement Maintenance (Continued)     
               • Rut mitigation
               • Basic guidance for concrete paving
               • Minimum Maintenance Standards

12:00        Lunch

1:00         Rehabilitation and Maintenance Methodologies
              • Crack Sealing
              • Patching
              • Thin surface treatments
              • Surface texturization
              • Overlay
              • Recycling techniques
       
2:30         Refreshments and Networking

2:45         Recent Developments in Pavement Technology and Specifications
               • Paving practices
               • Specifications
               • Construction management   

3:30         Case Studies
                  The lecturer will provide examples of various pavement distresses and conditions and  you will discuss what the best
                  method of repairing or upgrading the pavements.  
         
4:00         Questions and Answers and Feedback to Participants on Achievement of Learning Outcomes

Faculty

D.J. Swan
D.J. Swan is a senior engineer with Applied Research Associates, Inc and has over 10 years of experiencing in pavement design, evaluation, and management. Mr. Swan has led a range of projects across North America for municipal, provincial/state, and private organizations to establish pavement design standards, develop design procedures, and manage road networks. He received his Bachelor of Applied Science from the University of Waterloo and received his Master of Engineering degree from the University of Florida. Mr. Swan has authored and presented numerous papers and articles at conferences and workshops on pavements.

Additional Details

Pre-Requisites

Certificates offered

1.2 CEU / 12 PDH

Cancellation Policy

To withdraw from a course, you must send a request, in writing, with the official receipt to our office. Fifteen or more business days in advance: full refund less $50.00 administration charge. Five to fifteen business days in advance: non-refundable credit of equal value for any future EPIC seminar within one year. Credits are transferable within your organization. In case of an unexpected event occurring after this time, you may send someone else to take your place without any additional cost.

Map & Reviews

EPIC Educational Program Innovations Center
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Future Inns Halifax
30 Fairfax Drive
Halifax, NS
Canada   B3S 1P1

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Would have liked more interactive problem solving.

Reviewed by Allen A. 2011