18 March 2010 - 1 January 0001, 00:00 -

Road Maintenance Treatments

Organised by SCI’s Construction Materials Group in partnership with the Institute of Asphalt Technology & the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation

SCI HQ, London, UK

This seminar will review the advantages and disadvantages of the various techniques that
are available to maintain the asphalt pavements of roads, airfields and similar areas.

Road users have higher expectations of the road surfacings on which they drive. Therefore, the maintenance of road pavements, which has always been important, is becoming a more political subject. It is also becoming more important because of the potential reduction in funds for major works with the current economic recession as well as the increased deterioration expected with the climate changes being experienced. There are many ways of maintaining the road surface, as there are many failure mechanisms that need maintenance.

Each treatment will be discussed in terms of what faults it can, and cannot, rectify and what sort of situations that it is, and is not appropriate for. Because several pavement faults often appear together, the number of potential scenarios is extensive. Furthermore, the problems that may occur when an inappropriate treatment is used which, with the potential changes in the climate, may have
greater repercussions.

It is hoped that the seminar will stimulate engineers to consider the treatments that they specify or propose for use on a site so that its properties will reinstate the required properties of the pavement for which treatment was required – and that those properties should be retained for a reasonable time. One size does not fit all.

For more information, please see the Road Maintenance Programme and Booking Form