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AUSTSTAB ANNOUNCES DATE FOR 2022 AUSTRALIAN PAVEMENT RECYCLING AND STABILISATION CONFERENCE

AustStab is very pleased to announce that the revised date for its Australian Pavement Recycling and Stabilisation Conference, which will be held at the Novotel Brighton Beach, Sydney.

The new dates are:

Tuesday 9th August 2022

• Golf (details to be confirmed) and

Informal dinner - Novotel Brighton Beach -

Sponsored by Wirtgen

Wednesday, 10th August 2022 at the Novotel Brighton Beach, Sydney

• Australian Pavement Recycling and

Stabilisation Conference (commencing at 8:30am AEDT) • AustStab Gala Dinner and Awards Night –

Sponsored by Caterpillar (commencing at 7:00pm AEDT)

The theme of the one-day technical conference is Pavement Recycling for Sustainable Roads and will cover research outcomes, stabilisation for Local Government, construction excellence and sustainability. This will be a conference not to be missed by anyone involved in pavement design and construction that has an interest in pavement recycling and stabilisation.

The conference will be followed in the evening by the AustStab Gala Dinner and Awards Presentation event. The conference and dinner will provide the perfect opportunity to recognise the unique nature of AustStab as an organisation, celebrate excellence in the industry, and to focus on the important attributes of sustainability and resilience that are able to be delivered by pavement recycling and stabilisation processes.

The 27th Anniversary of AustStab gives us the opportunity to recognise the unique nature of AustStab as an organisation and to focus at our conference on the important attributes of sustainability and resilience that are able to be delivered by pavement recycling and stabilisation processes.

The one-day conference will feature four speaking sessions and around 20 presentations. Following is an outline of the program and an interim list of presenters – these may be subject to change:

• Implementation of foamed bitumen in Queensland – a 25 year journey, by

Jothi (Rama) Ramanujam, Queensland

Department of Transport and Main Roads • A practical approach to rehabilitate thin existing pavements using base-grade stabilisation, by Scott Young, Stabilised

Pavements of Australia • Characterisation of fatigue performance of in-situ foamed bitumen stabilised pavements under ALF full-scale pavement testing, by Dr Didier Bodin,

ARRB Group • Sustainability assessment for innovative pavement materials, designs and processes, by Brook Hall and Louise

Dutton, ARRB Group • Design of foamed bitumen stabilised pavements for local government engineers, by George Vorobieff, Head to

Head International • Emulsion treated road base – Bracalba

Quarry case study, by Iulian Man, Sami

Bitumen Technologies • Development of design procedures for lightly bound cemented materials, by Dr

James Grenfell, ARRB Group • Effects of ‘hot storage and duration’ on

Class 170 binder properties and foamed bitumen stabilisation performance, by

Damian Volker, Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads • Foamed bitumen stabilisation and the

Airport Pavement Research Program, by Dr Greg White, The University of the

Sunshine Coast • Canberra Airport – Taxiway Bravo extension, by Tim Jackson, Downer • Industry partnerships in national recognised stabilisation operator training, by Marcia Kelly, THE Mining & IS

Australia • Case study: Northbourne Avenue,

Canberra, by Alvaro Amorim, Transport

Canberra City Services • Circular Economy: Construction of an (almost) completely recycled road in

Central Coast Council NSW, by Stuart

Baverstock, Central Coast Council NSW (to be confirmed) • Rehabilitation of 300 projects in the

Campbelltown NSW LGA by pavement recycling and stabilisation to optimize service levels, by Mahbub Hossain,

Campbelltown City Council • Long-term performance of bound in-situ stabilised pavements in Richmond Valley

Council NSW, by Steve Button, Richmond

Valley Council (to be confirmed) • Managing respirable crystalline silica risks for stabilisation works, by Rohan

Davies, Queensland Department of

Transport and Main Roads

For more information and to register, please visit: https://www.auststab.com.au/

conference-and-agm/

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