Plan, build and maintain sealed roads for lasting performance.
A sealed road’s performance is shaped long before the first layer is placed and depends on decisions made throughout its lifecycle.
NTRO’s Best Practice Guide to Sealed Roads workshop gives you a practical foundation in managing, designing, constructing and maintaining sealed roads. Learn how to connect community expectations and network priorities with sound engineering, economic and asset-management decisions.
Learn directly from NTRO specialists in the room. Ask questions, discuss challenges from your own road network and explore how technical guidance applies to real projects. Draw on the discussion to strengthen your judgement across planning, construction and maintenance.
Start with the bigger picture. Explore levels of service, preservation and investment strategies, pavement deterioration, intervention timing and lifecycle costing. Learn how road agencies can turn reliable condition data into defensible, affordable works programs.
Then move from planning to delivery. Assess the factors that control pavement design, including traffic loading, Subgrade strength, moisture, temperature and drainage. Follow construction through earthworks, layer placement, stabilisation, compaction and quality assurance.
Finally, focus on the wearing course. Compare sprayed seals, asphalt, microsurfacing and concrete, consider treatments for different traffic and environmental conditions, and examine the practices that drive successful construction. Learn how timely maintenance can preserve waterproofing, skid resistance and serviceability before deterioration accelerates.
Developed with NTRO’s road-engineering and asset-management expertise, the workshop connects technical principles with decisions practitioners face across urban, regional and remote networks.
The course is based on NTRO’s Best Practice Guide to Sealed Roads, connecting the guide’s recommendations with practical application.
Make every stage count. Join NTRO’s specialists and strengthen your sealed-road capability.
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
Asset management for sealed roads
Pavement design and construction
Surfacings and maintenance
