Road Maintenance & Reliability Best Practices
September 11 – September 15 \ 2022 : Amman
September 25 – September 29 \ 2022 : : Kuwait
October 02 – October 06 \ 2022 : Amman
Introduction
IACT Road and Infrastructure Maintenance training course will help the participants to understand the need to adequately address road maintenance issues to enable the reduction of lifecycle costs of the road network and infrastructure. Traditionally, activity in the roads sub-sector has focused on the design and construction of new roads. Still, as the road networks have substantially completed in many countries, the focus is shifting to maintaining existing roads.
Engineering issues dominate design and construction; maintenance is essentially a management problem. The improvement of maintenance often involves institutional reform, human resource development, and changes to management practices before addressing technical issues, as these are the main elements of the road maintenance philosophy.
This training course will highlight:
Þ Lifecycle Cost of the Road Network
Þ Maintenance Management Planning and Execution
Þ Development of Maintenance Strategies
Þ Maintenance Prioritization
Þ Budgeting and Financial Issues related to Road Maintenance
Þ Implementation of Modern Tools and Technologies in Road Inventory Management
Þ Maintenance Sustainability
Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
Þ Understand the Model of Excellence for Maintenance and how to use this to improve company
Profitability
Þ Demonstrate best practice in Work Management, including the principles of managing work flow, planning and scheduling, and shutdown management
Þ Utilize leadership skills to achieve maintenance and reliability excellence
Þ Understand the importance of Road Maintenance Management
Þ Plan and prioritize the road maintenance based on the multiple criteria decision making
Þ Create a Road Management Plan
Þ Identify possible improvement options for the present maintenance program
Þ Evaluate complex Road Maintenance Programs and Plans
Who Should Attend?
This Road and Infrastructure Maintenance training course is designed for all decision-makers, engineers and other participants in Road and Infrastructure Maintenance sectors, as well as traffic and transport planning and organization within the political, technical, transport and environmental sectors.
Ü Project Managers
Ü Traffic Engineers
Ü Civil Engineers
Ü Highway and Road Engineers
Ü Optimizing Colleagues Responsiveness
Ü Managing Personal Energy
Course Methodology
The course uses self-assessments and a wide mix of business cases that promote healthy discussions around the importance of managing multiple tasks, deadlines and priorities. Participants will benefit from role plays covering workplace challenges related to handling tasks, deadlines and priorities. They will learn how to deal with conflicts that may arise as a result. Interactive team exercises are also used with each team presenting their findings and comments.
This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies as a percentage of the total tuition hours:
- 30% Lectures, Concepts, Role Play
- 30% Workshops & Work Presentations, Techniques
- 20% Based on Case Studies & Practical Exercises
- 20% Videos, Software & General Discussions
Pre and Post Test
Outline
DAY 1:
An introduction to the Model of Excellence and How maintenance has evolved
Þ Sources of best practice and benchmarking
options
Þ The pitfalls of traditional maintenance practices
Þ Road Infrastructure as an Asset
Þ Purpose of Road Maintenance Activities
Þ Road Maintenance Management Activities
Þ The relationship between fixed costs and maintenance performance in Road
Maintenance Management
Þ A change in thinking
Þ Away from cost reduction or reliability or safety
Þ Towards cost reduction and reliability and
safety
Þ The modern maintenance strategy and asset management
Þ How pace setters add value through maintenance innovation and integration with operating teams
DAY 2:
Aligning Maintenance with the Business plan and Managing for Performance in Monitoring and Actions
Þ How to align maintenance with the unique requirements of any business in Classification of Road
Þ Developing a maintenance vision and a credible plan for delivering this Launching and managing the Maintenance Improvement plan
Þ An overview of change management in Variables Used in Road Condition Monitoring
Þ Processes and tools for managing change
Þ Effective management of Human Factors
Þ Communication
Þ Health, safety and environmental considerations
DAY 3 :
Road Maintenance Project Management Lean and six-sigma
Ü A Holistic Approach to Asset Reliability Improvement
Ü Reliability Centred Maintenance
Ü The ideal reliability road map
Ü Bridges, Tunnels & Drainage Structures
Ü Traffic Controls & Safety Devices
Ü Control of Sand
Ü Road Maintenance and Construction
Ü Work Zones
DAY 4 :
Road Maintenance Plan
Þ Road Improvement Project Plan
Þ Road Maintenance Program
Þ Road Maintenance Goals and Performance Measure
Þ Developing a High-Performance Team
Þ The roles of personnel outside maintenance in reliability improvement and how to engage the right people in the right way
Þ Project Strategy and Project Proposal
Þ Road Survey Preliminary Analysis
Þ Communication Plan
Þ Road Maintenance Quality Issues
Þ Preventive Road Maintenance
Þ Road Emergency Repairs
Þ Road Rehabilitation
DAY 5 :
Major maintenance tasks, shutdowns and turnarounds
Ü Other Engineers’ Tools in Service of Road Maintenance
Ü LIDAR Systems
Ü Road Inventory through Point Cloud Data Collection
Ü Traffic Data Collection and Big Data
Ü Road Safety Audit
Ü Road Design
Ü Use of computer-based technology
Ü Intelligent Transportation System (ITS)
Fees:
The Fee for the seminar, including instruction materials, documentation, lunch, coffee/tea breaks & snack is:
4.250 USD $
Schedule:
08:30 – 10:15 First Session
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:15 Second Session
12:15 – 12:30 Coffee Break
12:30 – 14:00 Third Session