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Program
Understanding Road Construction - Materials & Practices - 2 Day (under development)
Fees: $895
The successful completion of any road construction project is heavily dependent on the sound planning and development of works and resource programs reflecting the detailed specifications or desired outcomes. Equally as important is the need to understand and rigorously monitor and maintain such throughout the project life. This Course provides information on the necessary planning and management of road construction, together with an overview of the resources required. This aspect is supported with an overview of the necessary elements required in planning and managing investigation works prior to commencement of major site works in road construction.
The course deals with Preliminary Site Investigations which are essential to ensure that any impediments to construction activity are identified and managed. Included is the importance of being aware of any environmental or community based issues which need to be understood and managed as a result of construction works. Understanding these aspects and thorough site investigation and subsequent informed management processes will minimise the potential for major problems or conflicts to arise which could result in construction delays, additional costs and importantly, poor public relations.
In addition to the above elements the Course looks at the construction of a road to the alignment, gradient and cross falls selected by the designer, that often involve a considerable amount of earthworks. The necessary operations for the Setting Out, and control of earthworks operations are described and elaborated on together with a brief outline of the elements involved in geometric design. Note that the establishment of control lines and bench marks are specialised survey operations that are not covered in this Course.
With Earthworks operations for roadwork providing the foundation for the pavement, road furniture and landscaping, the Course provides an understanding of the operations involved in the loosening, removing and depositing of earth, soil and rock and information on the construction of earthworks and the preparation of pavement foundations subsequent to the construction of a pavement structure.
The aspect of Roadsides is also covered as they provide an important range of functions, including: access for the construction and maintenance of the road, control of surface water drainage, the provision of underground drainage, the provision of safety barriers, signs and lighting for the safe operation of the road, landscaping as a buffer zone to integrate the road into the surrounding environment or reduction in noise, the provision of paths for pedestrians and cyclists and access for electricity, water, gas and telecommunications infrastructure. Worked examples and case studies are used throughout to facilitate practical learning.
Surface Treatments - Understanding & Assessing Options- 2 Day
Fees: $895
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.
Maintenance & Rehabilitation - Understanding & Evaluating Pavement Options- 2 Day
Fees: $895
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”. This 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 studies 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.
Advice is given for the investigation of sealed road pavements, and for 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.
Maintenance & Rehabilitation Workshop - from theory to practice - 1 Day
Fees: $895
The Workshop 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 studies are used throughout to facilitate practical learning. This Workshop builds on the knowledge delegates need to have in respect of 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, worked examples and exercises the workshop 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: $895
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 texts, with the course material itself 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, and 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.
Pavement Design- Principles & Practices - 2 Day
Fees: $1,090
Intended to inform on the basic principles & practices involved in pavement design, the course program will closely follow the content in the appropriate Chapters of the Austroads Guide to Pavement Technology (2010) – Part 2: Pavement Structural Design, which is used as the principal reference.
The materials content will however cover 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. Although predominately concentrating on unbound pavements, considerable time is allocated to designing bound pavements for light traffic as per Austroads Guide Chapter 12 – Design of Lightly-Trafficked Pavements.
Pavement Design - Advanced - 2 Day
Fees: $1,195
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. The first day provides awareness and understanding of important background information to assist with selection of an appropriate pavement type and an understanding of the properties of materials used. The second day introduces mechanistic design of bound pavements, design traffic & temperature impacts prior to providing an understanding of the theoretical basis of mechanistic pavement design methods, in a hands-on workshop with each student having access to a PC. Knowledge will be gained on how the inputs are used to determine an appropriate pavement composition and overall thickness. Worked examples will underpin learning.
Mechanistic Pavement Design - CIRCLY- 1 Day
Fees: $695
This one day course provides delegates with an understanding of the theoretical basis of mechanistic pavement design methods and is a hands-on course with each student having access to a PC.
The course is offered as a single day for those who are well versed and practiced in pavement design, or who have completed any of the past CPEE two day Pavement Design courses, or for those who are attending the current “Pavement Design – Principles & Practice” 2 day course in 2011.
Alternatively, limited places are available for Delegates to Register to undertake it as day 2 of the CPEE course titled “Pavement Design- Advanced”, provided they are well versed and practiced in pavement design, or have completed any of the CPEE two day Pavement Design courses.
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 & 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 minimise constr. and maint. costs.
CIRCLY Pavement Design in Practice - a hands on workshop- 1 Day
Fees: $695
This workshop builds on and extends the practical understanding of delegate’s knowledge and application in flexible pavement design, principally in the use of Circly pavement design software. This Workshop is an independent full day workshop (also becomes day 3 when undertaken in conjunction with the CPEE two day Pavement Design – Advanced course, 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. For the novice user a number of short cuts are not apparent nor is the capacity to input the most appropriate data to achieve more realistic and project specific outcomes with greater degree of certainty. These aspects will be a key part of the workshop learning’s and activities.
Awareness and practical application of the Parametric Analysis feature (can loop through a range of thicknesses for one or two layers, while simultaneously designing the thickness of another layer) will be provided as 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.
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.
Road & Public Space Lighting Workshop - 3 Day
Fees: $2,200 / Discounted fees (for 3 or more delegates) $2,075
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: $ 895
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.
Pavement Management - 2 Day
Fees: $895
Pavement Management is about having a systematic procedure for scheduling maintenance and rehabilitation activities to optimise benefits to the users of the facilities, and to minimise the cost to the “owner” responsible for the system.
It is important, then, to understand the techniques available to assist decision makers in finding optimum strategies for providing and maintaining road pavements in a serviceable condition over a given period.
This course will discuss and elaborate on the role and benefits of a Pavement Management System that supports decision making in a consistent and objective manner, supported by case studies throughout.
Road Sector 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 the legal principle behind the terms is. 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 - in the roads sector- 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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