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Program
Pavement Design - Advanced - 2 Day
Fees: $1,095
Course content will closely follow that of the Chapters in the Austroads Guide to Technology (2008) – Part 2: Pavement Structural Design which is used as the principal reference. The Materials session of the Course however covers more information than is in the Guide, as the selection of materials is critical to producing a pavement design that will deliver both structural and functional performance.
This Course is ideal for those involved in the design of road pavements, or those needing to understand design principles and related construction considerations.
The course is held over two days (see CIRCLY Workshop below for optional 3rd day on CIRCLY) with the first day providing background information to assist with selection of an appropriate pavement type and an understanding of the properties of materials used. The second day shows how the inputs are used to determine an appropriate pavement composition and overall thickness. Worked examples will underpin learning.
Pavement Design in Local Government - Principles & Practices - 2 Day
Fees: $995
With a focus on the roads & pavements in local government, the course program will closely follow the content in the appropriate Chapters of the Austroads Guide to Pavement Technology (2008) – Part 2: Pavement Structural Design, which is used as the principal reference.
The Materials sessions however covers more information than is in the current Guide, as the selection of materials is critical to producing a road/pavement design that will deliver both structural and functional performance.
The course is held over two days with the first day providing background information to assist with selection of an appropriate pavement type and an understanding of the properties of materials used. The second day focuses on Bound pavements and shows how the inputs are used to determine an appropriate road pavement composition and overall thickness. Worked examples will underpin learning.
CIRCLY WORKSHOP - 1 Day
Fees: $695
CIRCLY Workshop is an independent full day workshop (also becomes day 3 when undertaken in conjunction with either of the CPEE two day Pavement Design courses which provides an understanding of the theoretical basis of mechanistic pavement design methods. This is a hands-on workshop with each student having access to a PC.
The CIRCLY Pavement Design software is the core of the flexible pavement design methodology defined by the AUSTROADS Guide to Pavement Technology (2008) – Part 2: Pavement Structural Design (the Guide) is regarded as a primary reference source. CIRCLY is a proven design tool used over the past two decades in thousands of design applications world-wide. CIRCLY aids those involved in designing, constructing and using pavements.
CIRCLY 5.0 (2003) is a major advancement in pavement design: a fully integrated system with superior design power and ease of use. CIRCLY 5.0 has many time saving features such as an automatic thickness design capability that can save hours on a typical design job. A Parametric Analysis feature can loop through a range of thicknesses for one or two layers, while simultaneously designing the thickness of another layer. This feature will optimise up to three layers. Combining this with a Cost Analysis feature, allows for fine-tuning of layer thicknesses to minimize construction and maintenance costs.
Road & Public Space Lighting Workshop - 3 Day
Fees: $2,145 / Discounted fees (for 3 or more delegates) $2,035
This three-day workshop covers the latest practices applying to road and public space lighting design and practice. Used to support learning in the workshop is the Austroads’ Guide to Traffic Engineering Practice Part 12 - Roadway Lighting, a general guide to road lighting standards and practice applicable to traffic routes and to a lesser extent, to local collector and minor roads.
This workshop, however, is based on the Australian Standard AS1158-2005 and associated lighting standards. The workshop provides instruction on the basic principles and extends this instruction to lighting design from first principles through to a design completion for straight roads, intersections and bends in traffic routes, plus local roads and other public spaces such as: outdoor carparks; cycle and pedestrian pathways. Reference is included to other elements including subways; footbridges; ramps; steps; and other City and suburban public spaces.
Participants will have access to computer for significant interactive learning and case study use throughout the workshop.
Managing the Road Environment - 2 Day (under development)
Fees: $
Over two days this targeted course will provide valuable practical knowledge on the key issues involved in the pavement selection and design. Encompasing sessions on materials, specifications, construction practices, QC/QA, maintenance and rehabilitation. Practical site visits and workshops will be instructive components.
Evaluating Pavement Surface Treatments & Workshop- 2 Day
Fees: $875
The Course is primarily concerned with providing delegates with the knowledge, and practical understanding, to enable proper evaluation of various surface treatment options, and their application. A dedicated workshop will provide practical application of learning into typical construction scenarios.
Overall the Course will provide for understanding the fundamental types of flexible pavement wearing surfaces and their characteristics, functions and materials of construction. It will assist with the selection of an appropriate wearing surface and encompasses the theory and practice involved in designing a bituminous wearing surface. The importance and types of maintenance, pavement distress modes and evaluation techniques in respect of flexible pavements will be covered.
Understanding & Evaluating Pavement Maintenance & Rehabilitation Options- 2 Day
Fees: $875
The Course is primarily concerned with providing delegates with the knowledge, and practical understanding, to enable full evaluation of maintenance & rehabilitation options, and their most beneficial use Case vstudies are used throughout to facilitate practical learning.
This Course briefly reviews the importance and types of maintenance, pavement distress modes and evaluation techniques. Preventative and periodic maintenance options will be fully explored and detailed. Pavement Rehabilitation is often defined as “a process involving the application of any treatment which will overcome deficiencies in an existing pavement in order to provide structural and/or functional adequacy for a further analysis period”. Advice is given for the investigation of sealed road pavements, and the selection and design of pavement strategies/treatments specifically for roads carrying normal loadings with a specific focus on flexible pavements.
By using case studies the course will cover the rehabilitation “strategy” involving scoping the project, investigation and evaluation of the existing pavement, development of treatment options and the selection and implementation of the most appropriate of these options.
Insitu Stabilisation - 2 Day
Fees: $875
The use of stabilisation technology for stabilising and recycling of materials for pavement construction and maintenance is widely accepted as a cost-effective method of improving long term performance and reducing whole-of-life costs of modern, heavily trafficked pavements. This Course will briefly review the types of stabilisation before more detailed presentations on types of binders, material characteristics, design and mix detailing, with sessions on specifying and case studies for practical outcomes.
The Austroads Guide to Pavement Technology – Part 4D: Stabilised Materials, and Part 4L: Stabilising Binder, will be used as basic reference text in the Course which is primarily based on the CPEE Distance Learning Unit: “CPE 658 – Insitu Stabilisation
Overall the Course will include discussion on the types of various stabilising binders used in road construction, their properties, manufacture, chemical reactions during the stabilisation process and safety considerations associated with their use. The types of binders described are; lime, cement, cementitious pozzolans, bitumen, chemical and synthetic polymers.
Heavy Duty Pavements Computer Aided Mechanistic Design Workshop- 1 Day
Fees: $695
This Workshop introduces two major software packages that facilitate heavy duty flexible pavement design:
HIPAVE (Heavy Industrial PAVEment) is a layered elastic software program that conveniently models the effects of detailed payload distributions (spectrum of container weights) by calculating axle loads from vehicle configurations and payloads. It also models lateral vehicle wander. HIPAVE handles the variety of equipment used in container facilities, such as forklifts, straddle carriers, gantry cranes and side loaders.
APSDS (Airport Pavement Structural Design System) is for analysis and design of flexible pavements subjected to the extremely heavy wheel loads associated with large aircraft.
The Workshop also introduces the Heavy Duty Industrial Pavement Design Guide. The Guide reflects best practice in the design of new construction and rehabilitation of industrial pavements. The Guide steers the designer through key design considerations and suggests external sources for research updates. It has been created as a 'living document' that will be routinely modified to reflect advances in pavement technology and made freely available via the Internet.
HIPAVE and APSDS aid those involved in designing, constructing and using flexible pavements in
heavy duty applications.
Construction Contract Law- 2 Day
Fees: $1,475
The aim of this course is to provide practicing civil engineers and contract administrators with an in depth understanding of the principles of contract law as it applies to engineering and construction contracts. This particular introductory course does not cover all legal principles relevant to contract administration such as professional negligence, environmental issues, occupational health and safety, trade practices and claims as mention may be made to these issues from time to time. The course is designed to address basic legal principles common to all construction contracts in order to allow you to identify the legal issues which arise in the administration of engineering contracts in order to enable the efficient administration of your contracts and prevent costly unproductive disputes.
While the course will consider the terms of a number of “standard” construction contracts (for example AS 2124 and AS 4000) this course will not involve simply working through each of the provisions of the standard contracts. Provisions in “standard” contracts may change from time to time. Basic legal principles of contract do not. So the emphasis will be on why the terms are there and what is the legal principle behind the terms. At the completion of this course participants will have a good legal understanding of each of the terms in construction contracts
Dispute Resolution & Construction Claims- 2 Day
Fees: $1,475
Claims and disputes threaten the speedy and profitable performance of construction projects. Literally millions of dollars are lost in the prosecution and defence of construction claims. Parties are involved in long, costly, time wasting and futile efforts in pursuing and defending claims which perhaps should never have arisen in the first place and perhaps should never have been pleaded in view of the lack of a cause of action.
Part 1: The first part of this course will consider issues of dispute resolution in the construction industry. The aim of this component of the course will be to consider construction dispute resolution as a specific discipline in the context of construction disputes. Once we understand the origin of conflict, the basics of and legal issues and the procedural mechanisms of the main forms of dispute resolution, the process of resolving a dispute can develop and change in form to suit the type of dispute to be resolved. The course will consider all of the methods of dispute resolution currently used in the construction industry.
Part 2: The second part of this course has been designed to provide students with an understanding of the legal principles of contractual claims as they apply to construction contracts. It will consider the basic legal principles of construction contracts with respect to claims under common law and statute for construction works. In addition to claims arising from breach of contract, the course will consider claims arising in both tort and trade practices. The law relating to evidence required in the support and analysis of claims will also be considered.
At the completion of this course participants will have an understanding of both the practical and legal issues associated with the prevention and resolution of disputes in the construction industry together with an understanding of the legal issues relating to the principal legal causes of action arising from construction claims and an understanding of the basic laws of evidentiary issues relative to the support or defence of claims.
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