Best Practice Guides

Materials Guide

The Best Practice Guide for Roads Materials provides local government authorities, state and territory road agencies and other agencies responsible for the management of sealed and unsealed roads with guidelines on ways to manage their road materials, and to achieve both a sustainable and cost-effective outcome.

The Guide provides a strong focus on the understanding and management of road materials and addresses the main topics of materials in relation to pavement design, construction, management and operation.

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Unsealed Guide

The Best Practice Guide for Unsealed Roads provides local roads practitioners with a practical guide for the better basic understanding and management of unsealed roads. This is achieved by consolidating in one document best practice knowledge of the latest methods in asset management, pavement design procedures, construction and network operations for unsealed roads in Australia.

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Sealed Guide

The Best Practice Guide for Sealed Roads provides local roads practitioners with a practical resource for the better basic understanding and management of sealed local road pavements. This is achieved by consolidating in one document background knowledge of the latest methods in pavement design procedures, developments in road surfacing technology and road building practices for sealed local roads in urban, rural and remote areas around Australia.

The Guide provides a strong focus on pavement management requirements relating to sealed local roads, and addresses the main topics of design, construction, maintenance and rehabilitation.

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Bridge Management Guide

The Best Practice Guide for Bridge Management provides:

• an overview of the basics of Bridge Management including:

  • management, decision making, governance, risk frameworks and legal considerations

  • operations and maintenance

  • procurement of relevant services related to bridge management

  • asset disposal, re-purposing or replacement

• references that assist with the various processes associated with managing assets

• templates and proformas for the more common tasks such as procurement of specific services

• an understanding of heavy vehicle permit access requests.

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