Forum Recording

Concrete Pavements: Lessons Learned, SCM's and Sustainability The days sessions consisted of Nandini Mehta (NATSPEC) present on specifications for concrete pavement in local roads, followed by an exploration of SCMs in construction by Dr Daksh Baweja (BG&E). Mike Auty (AECOM) presented on lessons learned during a recent Crack and Seat/Rubbilisation...

                Following on from our March 2023 F2F Forum, this Online Forum continues the ‘Concrete 101’ series. John Hodgkinson (Hon. Member, AM) presents all things Thickness Design, with David Slingsby (Hon. Member) providing an insight into the development of Non-erodible Subbases for Australian...

                Concrete 101: Tiebars, Doweling, AGM & Reinforcing grids - we hope that our attendees enjoyed this opportunity to engage with our presentations and contribute to discussion. Forum Topics and Presentations: Tiebars Doweling Annual General Meeting Reinforcing Grids SRA Updates QTMR and Transport for...

          Words delivered by Peter Tamsett I expect most of you are aware that David Dash passed away on Saturday 7 August 2021 and I was asked by Jamie Egan to prepare this short video tribute. To put it briefly, David’s achievements have been enormous but...

Concrete Pavements: Design; Construct; Maintain; Recycle, & Whole of Life Costing – we hope that our attendees enjoyed this opportunity to engage and understand various SRA’s evolving policy around Sustainable Procurement in Infrastructure for Transport. Good design, construction techniques and material selection are not the only considerations for good concrete...

Tunnels allow rapid and unobstructed transport facilities in big congested cities. Think the recent NorthConnex! Whilst considered an expensive solution, tunnels provide a protected system for the pavement, thus tunnels reduce the maintenance cost of the system, but there are wider considerations in the design, detailing, materials selection and construction...

With an eye to future rehabilitation solutions, John Hodgkinson re-visited a CRCP overlay constructed on the Hume Highway, just north of Holbrook, in 1992. A significant milestone was reached in June 2021 as the first BCSA Rapid Set Concrete slab celebrated its 10th Birthday in Australia at Sydney International Airport. Since this...

Concrete is used throughout the World every day in countless diverse applications but it is critically important in terms of performance and durability to understand why the mix design and placement need to be appropriately tailored to suit each application. The inimitable Geoff Ayton will explore what it takes to...

Maturity testing of concrete, and applications for concrete pavements will be explored by Sabrina Garber from Transtec (USA). On a recent motorway project in Sydney roller compacted concrete was adopted as a working platform for pavement construction on local government roads. The successes and lessons learnt will be explored by...

The objectives of MECLA and why cutting embodied carbon matters will be put forward by Hudson Worsley.  How MECLA came to be set up, the findings of its foundation research, who is involved, how it works and what it hopes to achieve will be addressed. Veronica Prado, Timothy Cook and...

Sydney has a very large network of State and Local Government concrete roads built from the mid 1920s to the 1950s.  There is an increasing need for slab replacements, but with worksite access typically limited to a single night shift.  Using CSA rapid set cement, there are now 12 years...