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This webinar was co-sponsored by ASCE's Transportation and Development Institute (T&DI) and ASCE Continuing Education

Instructor:  David K. Hein, P.Eng.

Course Length: 1 Hour

Purpose and Background

The need for investments continue to increase well beyond the available funding to improve our transportation infrastructure. In order to help close this gap, the ASCE has issued a "Grand Challenge" to significantly enhance the performance and value of infrastructure projects over their life-cycles by 2025, and foster the optimization of infrastructure investments for society. To reach this goal, infrastructure designers, constructors and managers must be challenged to focus on innovation, reduce life-cycle costs and drive transformational change.

Innovations can include manners in which contracts are awarded and administered such as design/build and end performance specification. More often, they include the use of new equipment to improve construction efficiency or the quality of the pavement layers and subgrade. They may also include the effective re-use of waste and by-products or rehabilitation methods to re-use part or all of the original pavement materials to extend their service life. This webinar discusses various types of pavement construction. It also discusses quality assurance techniques.

Primary Discussion Topics

• Warm mix asphalt
• Pre-cast concrete slabs
• Accelerated bridge constructionv
• High friction surfaces
• New quality assurance techniques such as ground penetrating radar and infrared imaging
• Thin surface restoration techniques
• In-place recycling techniques for pavement renewal
• Geosynthetic pavement reinforcement
• Quiet pavement surfaces and treatments
• In-place recycling
• Intelligent compaction
• Dynamic road paint and warning systems
• Solar energy roads
• Self healing asphalt and concrete materials
• Constructability reviews

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Recognize emerging trends to improve the construction of pavements
• Identify potential sources and resources to explore the potential use of new techniques/technologies
• Describe key considerations for the successful adoption of new processes/procedures
• Learn how to reduce the life-cycle cost investments to construction and maintain roadway infrastructure

Webinar Benefits

• Explore innovation in the design, construction and maintenance of roadway infrastructure
• Recognize techniques to reduce the impact of roadway infrastructure on the environment, reduce construction time and cost and improve safety
• Identify innovations from both the U.S. and around the world
• Understand the potential for innovation deployment and their value for roadway design, construction and maintenance

Assessment of Learning Outcomes

Students' achievement of the learning outcomes will be assessed via a short post-assessment (true-false, multiple choice and fill in the blank questions).

Intended Audience

• Engineers and technicians involved in the design, evaluation and management of pavements
• State and provincial DOT staff
• Municipal and other roadway agencies
• Contractors and suppliers involved the delivery of transportation infrastructure

Webinar Outline

• Introduction to innovation
• Historical examples of innovative roadway construction
• Innovation needs
• Necessity to foster innovation
• Developing and emerging technologies
• Lessons learned
• Available resources

How to Earn your CEUs/PDHs and Receive Your Certificate of Completion

To receive your certificate of completion, you will need to complete a short on-line post-test and receive a passing score of 70% or higher within 1 year of purchasing the course.

How do I convert CEUs to PDHs?

1.0 CEU = 10 PDHs [Example: 0.1 CEU = 1 PDH]