Unsealed Roads Workshop - Rockhampton
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Date
11 February 2025
Duration
2 days
Location
Rockhampton QLD, Australia
CPD Hours
14
Price
Member Price
$1,950 + GST
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Non Member Price
$2,250+ GST
Practical information and guidance that will help you review your unsealed roads practices and ensure you are achieving value for money for road users.
The 2-day Unsealed Roads Workshop provides attendees with practical information and guidance on the use of materials, maintenance practices, and management of unsealed roads. Much 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. In addition to these key reference documents, practical knowledge and real-life examples from road authorities are provided.
IPWEA-QNT is offering a two-day workshop to provide support for road authorities and private industry.
Content
This two-day workshop on Unsealed Roads will provide a practical overview of the following:
Industry terms and definitions – key aspect of unsealed road management
Gravel Materials – types, testing, properties, compaction & specification
Soil Laboratory or field visit
Road performance
Pavement design
Maintenance - defects, treatments and management
Asset Management – Policy, Strategy, Funding
Economics of bitumen sealing an unsealed road
Other Key aspects – Safety, Drainage, Geometry
This will assist all owners &/or operators of unsealed roads in reviewing their field and management practices.
Who should attend?
This workshop is primarily aimed at staff involved in the areas of road maintenance, construction and management including, but not limited to:
Grader Drivers
Supervisors
Civil Engineers
Infrastructure Managers
Asset Managers
Road Inspectors
Technical Officers
Learning Outcomes
Unsealed Roads – General
Unsealed Road Performance – LoS, Condition, Material Loss factors
Gravel Materials – Properties, Types, Geology, Grading/Particle Size distribution, materials mixing materials for better outcomes, specifications
Soil Laboratory visit/work (or alternatively field visit of roads)
Pavement Design – is it required? When should I use it? How do I undertake a pavement design?
Maintenance – Defects, Treatments, Management
Asset Management – marrying LoS, Network Class Categories to Policy, strategy and funding models.
When should I bitumen seal an unsealed road?
Drainage, safety and design elements
Learning strategies
Lectures
Case studies
Group discussion
In-class activities and exercises
Soil Laboratory visit/work (or alternatively field inspection of unsealed roads)
Facilitator
Chris Cleary
Chris is a senior engineer with 32 years of experience in planning and delivery of road surfacing, construction, pavement rehabilitation and maintenance works, including unsealed road management.
He has an array of experience with gravel materials in both the State and Local Government sectors in Queensland and New South Wales.
Chris’s extensive experience includes all aspects of road infrastructure management at all project stages from planning through to construction and maintenance, including project management, contract administration and construction management of road construction and maintenance projects.
Chris is a Member of IEAust, IPWEA and a RPEQ.
Phil Hunt
Phil’s baseline engineering skills come from over 35 years of experience in the road design and construction industry.
He has extensive experience in the concept, planning, design, construction, maintenance and asset management of roads and bridges.
Phil has a long involvement with unsealed road management and has co-presented Unsealed Roads Courses since 2019.
In particular, Phil has assisted road authorities in the practical aspects of maintenance and management of unsealed road networks.
He has a keen interest in the long-term performance of pavements and has assisted in various research projects for Austroads and Arrb Group/QTMR (NACOE).
Of note, is the work on the use of Marginal Materials (low specification gravels) on rural road networks in a project titled “Sustainable Roads through fit-for-purpose use of available materials”.
Phil has a Masters in Engineering (Real-life Pavement Performance) and is a CPEng, RPEQ and a member of IEAust.
