The morning sessions saw Peter Carson (Carson Group) deliver a Holbrook Case Study on Concrete Overlay Performance , followed by Mohammed Ibrahim Mostazid (UNSW) walking us through Developing Accelerated Tests Criteria for Assessing Geopolymer Concrete Durability. After morning tea, Frank Grech (Kaysand) presented ‘Engineering the best sustainable concrete sand". Next,...
ASCP Forum Series (F2F) Tuesday 17th of September 2024 : Presentations and Recording
AUS-SPEC Rigid Pavements Worksections
It would be great if the ASCP members can volunteer to review the following attached AUS-SPEC rigid pavements work sections: 1131 Roller compacted concrete subbase 1132 Lean mix concrete subbase 1133 Plain and reinforced concrete base 1134 Steel fibre reinforced concrete base 1135 Continuously reinforced concrete base Attached below is...
Industrial Floor Joints: Design And Construction Challenges : Masoud Hashemi
Industrial Floor Joints: Design and Construction Challenges Arslan Awan1, Masoud Hashemi2 1 Structural Engineer, Leviat Aus/NZ 2 Floor Joint Systems Product Manager, Leviat (MIEAust|CPEng|CMEngNZ) ABSTRACT Joints play a significant role in the performance of concrete industrial floors. To achieve desirable load transfer capability across the joint and meet the flatness...
ASCP Forum – Concrete Pavements: Design, Construct, Maintain, Recycle & Whole of Life Costing – 20 Oct 2022
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...
ASCP Forum (Online) – Construction, Contractor Capability & Equipment Innovation – 16 Aug 2022
Construction, Contractor Capability & Innovation: How can we achieve these outcomes in a risk adverse concrete pavements was another successful (ONLINE) event. With over 100 attendees registered and almost 90 joining the event - this forum brought together a range of key experts within the concrete pavement supply chain where each...
ASCP Forum – Innovation, Sustainability & Low Carbon Concretes – Tuesday 31st May 2022
Innovation, Sustainability, Low Carbon Concretes: How can we achieve in Pavements – was the hotly anticipated topic of our May 2022 Forum. The Australian cement and concrete sector has a long history of reducing its CO2 emissions having delivered a 25 percent reduction since 2000 [VDZ 2022] being a critical...
Concrete Segmental Pavements (May 1993)
Salamanca Place in Hobart is a unique historic area dating from the 1830s. Georgian sandstone warehouse buildings flank a 24-m-wide roadway built over a reclaimed area originally used by the whaling fleet and shipping lines. The refurbished warehouses now function as professional offices, restaurants, a foundation covering most facets of...
ASCP Forum (Online) – Tunnels Pavements, Concrete Supply, Procurement – Tuesday 12 April 2022
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Melbournes New Concrete Road (Dec 1976)
Construction of a major concrete road is nearing completion at South Melbourne, for the Country Roads Board, Victoria. The total area of pavement is nearly 70,000 square metres, equivalent to 19 lane Kilometer of roadway. The road forms the southern and northern approaches to the new bridge over the Yarra...