When the owners of properties fronting Roma Parade in the Shire of Sherbrooke, Victoria requested construction of their private road, it posed real problems for the Shires designers. Roma Parade is very steep havi ng a 67 metre fall in level over its 248 metres length. Their final design included...
Concrete Road Paving Record In Queensland (Jul 1983)
During recent construction on a deviation of the Pacific Highway in South East Oueensland an Australian concrete road paving record of 1 km per day was established. The contractor, Seovic Holdings, using a Miller M9000 slipform paver and supported by the resources of Farley and Lewers (Old) Limited achieved a...
Princess Highway Sydney A 40-Year Performance Review (Jul 1992)
As part of the planning and design of a road pavement it is allocated a design-life. This is the period over which traffic loads are estimated for use in structural design. Usually expressed in years the typical range of design lives is 2040 years. Concrete road pavements are frequently designed...
Concrete Safety Barriers (Dec 1977)
Throughout Australia, concrete safety barriers are being used to improve the safety of existing roads and to provide a built-in safety feature in new roadways. When used as med ian barriers, their most common ro ]e, they minimise the risk of head-on collisions, the type of accident which accounts for...
Tumblong Deviation Hume Highway Nsw (Dec 1983)
Tumblong Devia1ion, located approximately midway between Sydney and Melbourne, will provide 17 km of highstandard, dual carriageway highway linking the township of Tumblong and the intersection of the Hume Highway and 1he Snowy Mountains Highway. A significant illus1rat ion of activities within the Aus1ralian Bicentennial Road Development Programme funded by...
Bell-Bankasia Link Road Melbourne (Oct 1992)
A major reduction in traffic congestion has been achieved in the Melbourne suburb of Heidelberg (11 km north-east of the CBD) with the recent opening of the BellBanksia link road. The $40m Federally- funded project reduces heavy through traffic on several local roads and will reduce road transport costs for...
Interlocking Concrete Block Pavements In Adelaide (Jun 1978)
The Adelaide City Council has recently made extensive use of concrete interlocking block paving in several projects. Landscape design principles were applied in the improvement of several inner-city, largely-residential streets where the aims were to improve their appearance and to make them safer for pedestrians. The two major projects were...
Three Local-Government Slipform Paving Projects (Dec 1984)
Until recently; the most common method of concrete pavement construction in Local-Government areas utilised steel or timber sideforms, and manually hauled vibrating screeds. This method continues to be ideal for many projects. Slipform road construction was introduced to Australia in 1979, but until 1983 its use was limited to major...
Recylcing The Pacific Highway (Feb 1993)
Over the period October 1990 to December 1992 the Roads and Traffic Au1hority (RTA) in NSW has comDleted the rehabilitation of about half a million sauare metres of the Pacific Highway. The work has been located within sections of the Highway from Bulahdelah to the Port Macauarie area. An integral...
Concrete Subbases For Flexible Pavements (Nov 1978)
Concrete is being increasingly used in the Sydney area to provide a sub-base for flexible road pavements. Typically, the pavement comprises 150 mm of plain concrete sub-base beneath a conventional roadbase and a surfacing of asphaltic concrete. Figure 2 shows the general form of pavement construction. The concrete sub-base provides...
150 Km Of Concrete Pavement On Three Major Roads (Dec 1985)
SinceJ982, activities under the Australian Bicentennial Road Development Program (ABRD), in conjunction with works under other Commonwealth and Stale funding arrangements have become highly visible in up- grading the Australian road system to a high standard. In New South Wales and elsewhere concrete roads in varying configurations up to six-lane,...
Victoria Parade Melbourne Three Decades Of Outstanding Performance (Sep 1993)
The concrete Pavement in Victoria Parade is on the eastbound carriageway between Brunswick and Hoddle Streets in Collingwood, a distance of about 1.25 km. Within the overall alignment of this section of Victoria Parade there is a central reserve containing a tramway, while the westbound carriageway has a flexible pavement...