Course description
An innovative highway industry provides a major market for the use of 'waste’ resources, at the same time minimizing the need for 'natural’ resources. Selected waste streams and industrial by-products, formerly bound for a landfill, are more frequently finding a route into sustainable highway design and maintenance.
Asphalt pavements, concrete, base courses and embankments increasingly have incorporated 'waste’ resources instead of raw materials. Reclaimed concrete and asphalt, scrap tires, plastics, steel slag, roofing shingles, coal fly ash, and composted municipal organic wastes are proven, cost effective, and high-efficiency materials with broad applicability in roadway construction.
Other environmentally sustainable actions beyond mere building materials include right-of-way management, the reuse of organic materials from cleaning and grubbing operations, deconstruction of buildings removed from rights-of-way, minimal right-of-way footprints.
By attending this Road Construction Materials and Construction Technologies Training you willObtain and introduce knowledge on road construction materials and construction technologies, equipment and techniques and Identify the road materials and material properties in construction and materials used in road pavements and etc.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Road Construction Materials and Construction Technologies Training is intended for
- Road construction engineers working in road construction, construction supervision of road projects.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
At the end of the Road Construction Materials and Construction Technologies Training, you will be able to:
- Identify the road materials and material properties in construction and materials used in road pavements and etc.
- Enumerate the different types of asphalt mixtures as well as the design of asphalt concrete mixture which also applies testing, specification of methods and marshal method
- Implement quality control and quality assurance in road construction
- Enhancing the skills of road construction engineers in their field
- Introduction to road construction materials
- Determination of engineering properties of road materials
- Quality control and quality assurance in road construction
Training Course Content
Day 1
An introduction to road construction materials
- The used materials for road embankment, road pavement (gravel roads, surface dressed roads, paved roads, etc)
- Material properties
- Soil and subbase: Standard tests to determine the engineering properties of road materials
- Standard tests to determine the engineering properties of road materials
Day 2
Asphalt Mixtures
- Types of Asphalt Mixtures
- Hot mix asphalt concrete
- Worm mix asphalt concrete
- Cold mix asphalt concrete
Day 3
Design of Asphalt Concrete Mixture
- Testing of materials used in the asphalt mix (course aggregate, fine aggregate, mineral filler, binder etc.)
- Specification requirements
- Blinding of aggregate
- Graduation of blinded aggregates
- Marshal method for design of asphalt mixtures; volumetric relationships, optimum bitumen content, tolerance, job mix formula
Day 4
Quality Control and Quality Assurance in Road Construction
- The importance of quality control in road construction processes
- Selecting of materials sources
- Testing of materials
- Inspection of the executed work
- Testing the executed work
- Filling the test result for quality assurance process
- Quality assurance in road construction processes
Day 5
Road Construction Technology
- Introduction to the new technologies in road construction
- New equipment’s, new techniques used in road construction
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