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Unsealed Roads Workshop

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Date

29 April 2025

Duration

2 days

Location

Head Office - Brisbane

CPD Hours

14

Price

Member Price 

$1,950 + GST

Members receive discounted pricing per course/workshop

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Non Member Price 

$2,250+ GST

Practical information and guidance that will help you review your unsealed roads practices and ensure you are achieving value for money for road users.


The 2-day Unsealed Roads Workshop provides attendees with practical information and guidance on the use of materials, maintenance practices, and management of unsealed roads. Much of the content is based on ARRB’s 2020 Unsealed Roads - Best Practice Guide, and Austroads’ Guide to Pavement Technology Part 6 – Unsealed Pavements, 2009. In addition to these key reference documents, practical knowledge and real-life examples from road authorities are provided.

IPWEA-QNT is offering a two-day workshop to provide support for road authorities and private industry.

Content

This two-day workshop on Unsealed Roads will provide a practical overview of the following:


  • Industry terms and definitions – key aspect of unsealed road management

  • Gravel Materials – types, testing, properties, compaction & specification

  • Soil Laboratory or field visit

  • Road performance

  • Pavement design

  • Maintenance - defects, treatments and management

  • Asset Management – Policy, Strategy, Funding

  • Economics of bitumen sealing an unsealed road

  • Other Key aspects – Safety, Drainage, Geometry


This will assist all owners &/or operators of unsealed roads in reviewing their field and management practices.

Who should attend?

This workshop is primarily aimed at staff involved in the areas of road maintenance, construction and management including, but not limited to:

  • Grader Drivers

  • Supervisors

  • Civil Engineers

  • Infrastructure Managers

  • Asset Managers

  • Road Inspectors

  • Technical Officers

Learning Outcomes 

  • Unsealed Roads – General

  • Unsealed Road Performance – LoS, Condition, Material Loss factors

  • Gravel Materials – Properties, Types, Geology, Grading/Particle Size distribution, materials mixing materials for better outcomes, specifications

  • Soil Laboratory visit/work (or alternatively field visit of roads)

  • Pavement Design – is it required? When should I use it? How do I undertake a pavement design?

  • Maintenance – Defects, Treatments, Management

  • Asset Management – marrying LoS, Network Class Categories to Policy, strategy and funding models.

  • When should I bitumen seal an unsealed road?

  • Drainage, safety and design elements

Facilitator

Chris Cleary

Chris is a senior engineer with 32 years of experience in planning and delivery of road surfacing, construction, pavement rehabilitation and maintenance works, including unsealed road management. He has an array of experience with gravel materials in both the State and Local Government sectors in Queensland and New South Wales. Chris’s extensive experience includes all aspects of road infrastructure management at all project stages from planning through to construction and maintenance, including project management, contract administration and construction management of road construction and maintenance projects. Chris is a Member of IEAust, IPWEA and a RPEQ.


Phil Hunt

Phil’s baseline engineering skills come from over 35 years of experience in the road design and construction industry. He has extensive experience in the concept, planning, design, construction, maintenance and asset management of roads and bridges. Phil has a long involvement with unsealed road management and has co-presented Unsealed Roads Courses since 2019. In particular, Phil has assisted road authorities in the practical aspects of maintenance and management of unsealed road networks. He has a keen interest in the long-term performance of pavements and has assisted in various research projects for Austroads and Arrb Group/QTMR (NACOE). Of note, is the work on the use of Marginal Materials (low specification gravels) on rural road networks in a project titled “Sustainable Roads through fit-for-purpose use of available materials”. Phil has a Masters in Engineering (Real-life Pavement Performance) and is a CPEng, RPEQ and a member of IEAust.

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