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

2. COTO Road Materials Committee (RMC) Goal To coordinate and guide SA development in terms of: road building materials, pavement design, road network management, pavement construction, maintenance and rehabilitation

3. 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

4. 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

5. COTO RMC Missing representation: North West Province Limpopo DOT

6. COTO RMC Two sub-committees: Materials testing – M. Henderson (Chair) Roads Network Management Systems (RNMS) – M. Henderson (Chair)

7. PRIORITIES FOR REVISION OF PUBLICATION 1. TMH1 – Standard Methods of Testing Road Construction Materials 2. New TMH on surveillance methods. 3. TRH12 – Guidelines for Pavement Rehabilitation 4. TRH4 – Pavement Design 5. TRH20 – Unpaved Roads 6. TMH8 – Traffic Counting

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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)

12. 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.

13. 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

14. COTO RMC Next meeting: October 2006