COTO Road Materials Committee RMC

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• COTO Road Materials Committee (RMC)
• Road Pavement Forum
• 11 May 2006
• Elzbieta Sadzik

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COTO Road MaterialsCommittee (RMC)

• Goal
• To coordinate and guide SA development in terms
  of
• road building materials,
• pavement design,
• road network management,
• pavement construction, maintenance and
  rehabilitation

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COTO RMC (cont)

• Actions
• Facilitate technology transfer amongst road
  authorities
• Collate state of the art technology and practice
• Develop national standards
• Produce / revise relevant TRH and TMH

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COTO RMC

• Members
• Elzbieta Sadzik GDPTRW (Chair)
• Mervyn Henderson WCPA
• Rob Lindsay KZN DOT
• Simon Oloo KZN DOT
• Enrico Fletcher GDPTRW
• Carla Davis Mpumalanga
• Shadrack Marodi - Mpumalanga
• Karl Arnold Freestate
• Kobus van der Walt SANRAL
• Lesley Johnson DOT
• Benoit Verhaeghe CSIR Transportek
• Clive Boshoff Eastern Cape
• Richard Rikhotso Limpopo Road Agency
• Jerome Mayimele - Limpopo Road Agency

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COTO RMC

• Missing representation
• North West Province
• Limpopo DOT

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COTO RMC

• Two sub-committees
• Materials testing M. Henderson (Chair)
• Roads Network Management Systems (RNMS) M.
  Henderson (Chair)

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PRIORITIES FOR REVISION OF PUBLICATION

• TMH1 Standard Methods of Testing Road
  Construction Materials
• New TMH on surveillance methods.
• TRH12 Guidelines for Pavement Rehabilitation
• TRH4 Pavement Design
• TRH20 Unpaved Roads
• TMH8 Traffic Counting

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Revision of publications - progress

• TMH1
• Set 1 A1to A5 published by SABS end June 2006
• Set 2 A6 and B18 two new methods second
  draft submitted to SABS end of May 2006
• Set3 A7 and A8 one new method first draft to
  industry May 2006
• All three sets published by SABS by the end
  of 2006 SANRAL, PAWC

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Revision of publications - progress

• New TMH on surveillance methods
• Guidelines for Network Level Measurement of
  Road Roughness draft May 2006 - PAWC
• TRH 12 Guidelines for Pavement Rehabilitation
• Draft by end May 2006 - SANRAL

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Revision of publications - progress

• TRH 4 Structural Design of Road Pavements
• Revision of SA mechanistic empirical design
  method PRAC H. Theyse work proposal prepared
  for SANRAL
• Development of a new design method proposal by Dr
  F Jooste

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Revision of publications - progress

• TRH 20 Structural Design of Unpaved Roads
• TOR prepared to be advertised for tenders NDOT
• TRH 8 Traffic counts
• Guidelines for bitumen stabilised materials (FB
  and ETB)

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COTO RMC

• Issues
• Lack of formal structure for approvals and
  publishing of documents - Road Coordinating
  Committee (RCC) not functioning
• Lack of national research fund
• Need for other COTO committees to be reactivated.

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COTO RMC

• Points of interest
• New procurement system for professional services
  Competitive selection on balance between
  competence and price
• Preference for accredited laboratories
• Request for a QMS from consulting engineers (ISO
  9001 or similar)
• Reactivation of COLTO specification committee
  compatibility with CIDB requirements and revision

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COTO RMC

• Next meeting October 2006