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Homepage A little about myself and why I decided to put this site together, and the nature of the website.

Contents Page This is the launching off point to many more highways maintenance topics, organised under broad highways maintenance categories, that relate to the many disciplines involved in highways maintenance. Hopefully providing useful practical information

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Bituminous Mixtures, broad descriptions of the various bituminous mixtures, their properties, and the specifying of these mixtures in the UK.	Winter Service / Maintenance,  a guide to winter gritting using crushed rock salt, the various specifications, and codes of practice.	"Asphalt" Recycling,  or any bituminous mixture previously used in a highway pavement.	Skid Resistance, information relating to the skid resistance of a road surface. How to obtain a high skid resistance, and how to specify it.
Skid Resistant / High Friction Surfacing, information on both hot and cold applied methods.	Concrete, basic information relating to concrete, its nature, and simple design information.	Hot Rolled Asphalt and Precoated Chippings, guidance on how to lay it, and specify it.	Generic "Thin" Bituminous Mixtures, guidance on British Standard bituminous mixtures that can be laid 40mm. thick, or slightly less.
Footway Slurry Sealing, the theory and practice.	Slurry Macadam / Micro Asphalt, i.e. slurry sealing with larger aggregate for surface treatment highway surfacing	Surface Dressing, a great deal of information that you should know about surface dressing if you are using this process.	Thermoplastic Road Marking, guidance on the process and how to specify it.
Road Surface Retexturing, information on the processes available and how to test the results of the process.	Bitumen Viscosity, a guide to specifying the viscosity / grade of bitumen for a particular bituminous mixture and site, and how to test for viscosity.	Aggregate Properties, the nature of important properties that  aggregate should have, and how to specify and test.	Bituminous Mixture Temperatures, the importance of temperature in relation to any thermoplastic material.
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