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Britpave, the British Cementitious Paving Association, is an independent body established to develop and forward concrete and cementitious solutions for infrastructure.

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It is active in the development of solutions and best practice for roads, rail, airfields, guided bus, drainage channels, soil stabilisation and recycling. As such, the Association is the focal point for the infrastructure industry.

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Date: Thu 15 Jul 2021

Highways England updates concrete roads manual

Highways England’s Concrete Roads Centre of Excellence has published the first concrete roads handbook in more than 30 years. The new Concrete Pavement Maintenance Manual brings together the latest updates, advice and guidance from materials engineers on how to maintain, survey repair roads.

The publication supports the recent award of contracts worth £285m to renew the concrete surfaces of motorways and trunk roads. The guide is designed to help contractors identify and repair faults in concrete roads, including underlying structural problems.

The guidebook was developed by the Concrete Roads Centre of Excellence, which has been set up as the development and knowledge centre for the programme.

Technical lead Mike Ambrose said: “Like the concrete roads we are now upgrading or rebuilding, the old guidance has served the industry and country well since it was last published. This up-to-date handbook brings together and updates advice and guidance from across the industry into a single document and sets out commonly used techniques to inspect and repair concrete roads and other surfaces.

“Our new concrete road handbook will enable us to work with our supply chain as we repair and rebuild the concrete roads in our network as we build back better in the years to come.”

Britpave worked closely with the Centre Roads Centre of Excellence to provide industry expertise and input. Joe Quirke, Britpave chairman said: “This is an important document and we are delighted to have been involved with its update and revision. Concrete roads when maintained correctly offer unrivalled long-term performance and durability.”

Concrete roads make up 4% of England’s motorway and major A-road network. They are mainly along the eastern side of the country, in the North East, Yorkshire, East Anglia and the South East, there are also some smaller stretches in other parts of England. They were built largely in the 1960s and 1970s.