Course Description
This course provides a practical, “hands-on” introduction to road building materials and road construction techniques. It introduces the terms, jargon and buzz-words regularly used in the road construction and road maintenance industry and is aimed at enabling candidates to become familiar with what, where, and how materials are used in road construction.
Comprehensive PowerPoint presentations are used to make information easier to digest.
The course covers:
- Road pavement components
- Most important properties of soils and
- aggregates
- Materials aspects of road construction
- Stabilisation
- Basic bitumen technology
- Introduction to surfacing seals
- Basics of hot-mixed asphalt
- Overview of materials investigations
- Overview of pavement rehabilitation
- design options
- Basics of pavement design
- Basics of concrete technology
This is not a high-level course and is aimed at Engineers, Technologists and Technicians with up to 5 years post-graduate experience, who are involved in the design, supervision, and construction of surfaced roads
PRESENTER
Mr. Ron Berkers