Module 1: Pavement Overview
- What are pavements
- Functional requirements
- What stakeholders want
- Pavement types and key issues
- Drainage
- Pavement life cycle
Module 2: Pavement Materials
- Strength, stiffness, damage definitions
- Soils and stabilization
- Aggregate
- Asphalt and asphalt mixes
- Sprayed asphalt
- Cement and concrete
- Materials of the future
Module 3: Sustainability considerations
- Cost sustainability and life cycle cost analysis (LCCA)
- Environmental sustainability and life cycle assessment (LCA)
- Environmental impacts of materials production and construction
- Environmental Product Declarations
Module 4: Traffic, Environment and Basics of Treatment Types
- Treatment definitions
- Pavement life cycle
- Traffic variables
- Climate variables
Module 5: Pavement Distresses for Asphalt Surfaced Pavement
- Structural distresses
- Surface distresses
- Soils problems
- Preservation and maintenance treatments
- Decision tree logic to address distresses with preservation and maintenance
Module 6: Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Design and Selection Process
- Project investigation
- Desktop
- Site
- Sampling and testing
- Examples of inadequate site investigation
- Treatments
- Asphalt overlays
- Partial-depth reclamation
- Full-depth reclamation
- Concrete overlays
- Decision logic
Module 7: Pavement Distresses for Concrete Surfaced Pavement
- Concrete pavement distress mechanisms
- Design and construction
- Pavement design, jointing
- Mix design
- Construction
- Concrete pavement maintenance and rehabilitation
Module 8: Pavement Distresses for Surface Treated, Gravel Surfaced and Permeable Pavements
- Gravel and surface treated roads
- Distress mechanisms
- Engineered Gravel
- Unpaving to engineered gravel
- Permeable pavement
- Distress mechanisms
- Functionality
- Use
Module 9: Overview of Pavement Management
- What is a pavement management system
- How a PMS works
- Framework
- Condition survey
- Decision trees
- Prioritization
Module 10: Overview of LCCA and LCA and How to Use This Information
- Introduction to LCCA
- Introduction to LCA
- How it works
- What to focus on now to improve sustainability
- EPDs