A key task of the roads manager is to ensure the ongoing integrity of road pavement assets by undertaking appropriate condition assessments at regular intervals. These assessments are used to identify emerging or progressed defects that may affect the safety risk or asset integrity risk of road pavements across the network. Understanding what causes road pavement defects and how to diagnose them is a crucial skill set of the road asset manager to ensure the safe, appropriate, and optimised management of road pavements.

This one-day program is designed to provide the attendee with a solid grounding in the fundamentals of the causes of road pavement defects, how to assess them, and how to utilise the results. The course is built around the methodologies presented in IPWEA Road Practice Note 9 and its Addendums. It combines methodologies, practical examples and exercises for attendees.

Procurement and contracting law specialists, David Saunders and Rachel Oost, will provide a practical and insightful overview of the construction contracting landscape

Drainage systems are an important and integral consideration in the planning and design of road infrastructure.

There are a variety of aspects that must be considered to provide an appropriate and economical drainage system on all road projects, irrespective of location, size, cost or complexity. 

This  two-day workshop on drainage based on the Austroads Guide to Road Design Parts 5, 5a & 5b. These guides will provide designers with information to appropriately manage stormwater run-off through the design of efficient and effective road drainage systems.

Asphalt pavements are a pavement and surfacing alternative for the changing environments and increasing demands on the road pavement. These increasing demands requires all aspects of the asphalt construction to be addressed to ensure the expected design life is achieved.

There are a number of factors that impact the life of the asphalt, including the choice of treatment, quality of materials, operational aspects of construction, as well as traffic number, types of vehicle movements and vehicle types.

Acknowledging the importance of asphalt surfacing’s for the Australian road network, IPWEA-QNT in conjunction with a practical expert in the area of asphalt construction and failure review, is offering a one-day workshop to provide support for the practitioners and decision makers for the application of pavement construction and review of failed treatments.

An overview of key management issues that will increase your knowledge and understanding in the unsealed road network asset management area.

The 0.5-day Online Unsealed Roads – Network Asset Management Overview, provides attendees with information of key issues often asked by road owners and managers. Whilst some of the content is based on ARRB’s 2020 Unsealed Roads - Best Practice Guide, and Austroads’ Guide to Pavement Technology Part 6 – Unsealed Pavements, 2009; practical knowledge and real-life examples from road authorities are provided.

IPWEA-QNT is offering a one-day workshop to provide support for road authorities and private industry.

A practical workshop designed to assist local government, and others working in local streets, with practical cost-effective TTM solutions which deliver safe WHS outcomes. This workshop will demonstrate how to significantly improve the efficiency of TTM application at your sites.

Temporary Traffic Management (TTM) arrangements applied in the local road environment are frequently reported / observed to be excessive and lacking in common sense for the scale of the works and level of risk. Combined with the TTM costs consequently representing 40 to 80% of the actual job costs, a clear need exists for more appropriate solutions.

Dr Dan Sullivan has assisted local authorities and utility organisations since publication of the Guides to Temporary Traffic Management in identifying / developing cost and risk effective solutions for TTM in these environments. Observations on site with clients confirms that in many cases “conservatively safe” practices are being applied by others. However, these practices are typically time consuming to implement, reduce productivity and increase TTM costs. Perversely they often introduce more safety risks than they mitigate.

Documented relaxations and practices exist for exactly these situations. There are also opportunities to develop risk based solutions which are more practicable, improve works efficiency, reduce TTM costs and reduce the WHS risks at the site.

This half-day workshop provides a practical overview of the documented relaxations and application in these local street environments and includes the opportunity to develop case examples for the TTM at your works activities.

IPWEA-QNT in conjunction with Solutions in Transport, is offering a half-day workshop to provide support for local governments and others working in local streets.

Native Title and Cultural Heritage legislation can best be described as complex. Increasingly, those involved with the planning, construction and management of infrastructure assets are required to understand the legal basis of native title and cultural heritage issues. Effective management of native title and cultural heritage is critical to the timely delivery of infrastructure projects.

This one-day program has been designed to provide attendees with an understanding of native title and cultural heritage compliance requirement’s related to infrastructure projects and land tenure dealings, as well as offering additional strategic learning specific to regional challenges, government policy developments and in-house compliance systems.

A key task of the roads manager is to ensure the ongoing integrity of road pavement assets by undertaking appropriate condition assessments at regular intervals. These assessments are used to identify emerging or progressed defects that may affect the safety risk or asset integrity risk of road pavements across the network. Understanding what causes road pavement defects and how to diagnose them is a crucial skill set of the road asset manager to ensure the safe, appropriate, and optimised management of road pavements.

This one-day program is designed to provide the attendee with a solid grounding in the fundamentals of the causes of road pavement defects, how to assess them, and how to utilise the results. The course is built around the methodologies presented in IPWEA Road Practice Note 9 and its Addendums. It combines methodologies, practical examples and exercises for attendees.