The special 2011 Roading Excellence Awards issue of Street Talk is now available and can be downloaded from here. It contains full details of prizewinners and a selection of the photographs taken at the Awards Dinner.
New Plymouth’s stunning Te Rewa Rewa Bridge and Coastal Walkway Extension was this week honoured as the best new road project, taking out the Roading New Zealand Supreme Award in the 2011 Roading Excellence Awards. Read about all the winners.
Roading New Zealand today named the thirteen projects selected as finalists in the 2011 Roading Excellence Awards. Winners of each category, and the Supreme Award winner, will be announced at the Awards Dinner on August 29. Read more . . .
A newly published Technical Note from Roading NZ, First Coat Sealing on a Stabilised Basecourse, gives guidance to roading practitioners in determining the amount of bitumen and diluents required for seal designs on all types of stabilised basecourse pavement surfaces. It also provides recommendations on industry best practice (additional to those in "Chipsealing in New Zealand". Click here to download.
Roading New Zealand has published a comprehensive set of Guidelines for Surfacing Treatment Selection, which is expected to be invaluable for Asset Managers, Surfacing Engineers and Pavement Designers. The guidelines were produced by a specialist team comprising members of Roading NZ’s Pavement and Asphalt Committees, with assistance from the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA)
Once again the Roading New Zealand Auckland Asphalt Group ran a very successful and well attended National Asphalt Forum on Tuesday 9 November 2010. Read more