Maintaining Asphalt Pavements

Online Course Schedule 2025:

Live Session 1 Asphalt Pavement Performance

Live Session 2 Pavement Evaluation and Patching

Live Session 3 Cracksealing and Surface Treatments

Live Session 4 In-Place Asphalt Pavement Recycling and Rehabilitation

Live Session 5 Solving Asphalt Pavement Construction Problems through Observation and Inspection and Parking Lot Specific Pavement Issues and Asphalt Pavement Asset Management Examples

In-person Course Outline:

Asphalt Pavement Performance

• How to select asphalt and aggregate for effective performance
• Factors affecting pavement thickness design
• Reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) and reclaimed asphalt shingles (RAS)
• Special mixes: stone matrix asphalt (SMA), open-graded friction course (OGFC), warm mix asphalt
• Porous asphalt pavement

Pavement Evaluation

• Identify pavement distresses and causes of distresses
• Relate pavement distress types and distress severity to cost-effective repair strategies
• Implement a simple pavement rating and evaluation system

Asphalt Surface Treatments

• Learn about materials and methods for fog seal, slurry seal, micro- surfacing, chip seal, and scrub seal
• Use chip seal materials and equipment effectively
• Implement quality, cost-effective chip seal procedures
• Select surface treatments for low- volume roads, parking lots, and recreational facilities

In-Place Asphalt Pavement Recycling and Rehabilitation

• Learn effective techniques for cold in-place recycling, hot in-place recycling, full-depth reclamation

Asphalt Patching Done Right

• Understand temporary and permanent patching techniques
• Select cost effective patching materials
• Evaluate patching equipment options
• Patching trench excavations

Cracksealing

• Cost-effective of crack sealing
• Implement best practices
• Properly and safely use equipment
• Selecting materials for your pavement conditions and environment

Solving Asphalt Pavement Construction Problems

• Perform proper surface preparation
• Change paving procedures to minimize mix segregation
• Improve pavement joint construction
• Improve compaction
• Quality control of asphalt mixes

Parking Lot Specific Pavement Issues

• Establish a program to manage your pavement assets
• Use condition evaluation to select treatments
• Develop a maintenance and rehabilitation plan

Asphalt Pavement Asset Management Examples

• Establish a program to manage your pavement assets
• Use condition evaluation to select treatments
• Develop a maintenance and rehabilitation plan
• Street and parking facility examples

Registration Date/Time:
1/13/2026 8:45am Central Time

Event Dates/Times:

• 1/13/2026  9:00am - 11:00am Central Time
• 1/20/2026  9:00am - 11:00am Central Time
• 1/27/2026  9:00am - 11:00am Central Time
• 2/3/2026  9:00am - 11:00am Central Time
• 2/10/2026  9:00am - 11:00am Central Time
• 2/17/2026  9:00am - 11:00am Central Time

• Instructors

  Andrew Braham

  Professor

  “Dr. Andrew Braham graduated from the University of Wisconsin with his B.S. and M.S., and from the University of Illinois with his Ph.D.    He worked with Koch Materials Company for two and a half years, and performed a post-doc at Southeast University in Nanjing, China.  He is currently a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Arkansas, where his teaching and research focus is on flexible pavement materials, pavement maintenance and rehabilitation, and sustainability.  He is the chair of TRB committee AKT30 (Pavement Maintenance), is an associate director of the Southern Plains Transportation Center, and is the developer of the Pavinar webinar series.  You can find out more about Dr. Braham at www.andrewbraham.com”

   

  Timothy Murphy

  President

  Timothy R. Murphy, PE is president of Murphy Pavement Technology, Chicago, Illinois. He is involved in asphalt pavement teaching, training and troubleshooting nationwide. Murphy works on pavement management, mix design, quality control, construction practices, and failure investigation for government agencies, contractors and consultants and facility owners.

  Benjamin Jordan

  Program Director

  Benjamin J. Jordan, P.E. is a Program Director at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, College of Engineering, Interdisciplinary Professional Programs, where he develops continuing education courses for civil engineers and public works professionals. He has over forty years of experience in civil engineering and public works. He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign and a Master of Public Affairs degree with a Graduate Certificate in Public Management from the University of Missouri – Columbia. Mr. Jordan is a  Licensed Professional Engineer in  Illinois, Washington, And Wisconsin.

  Michael Groh

  Michael L. Groh is the Pavement Consultant Lead at Ruekert & Mielke, Inc., Waukesha, Wisconsin. He has been involved in the paving industry for over 40 years with experience as a contractor, material supplier, and, in the most recent twenty plus years, consulting. He focuses on pavement condition evaluation and asset life extension using innovative pavement design, maintenance, and construction techniques.

  Paul Yerkes

  President

• Program Director

  Benjamin Jordan

Fee covers morning and afternoon breaks, scheduled lunches, and course materials.

When two or more sign up from same employer, your course discount is $109.5.
Companion Course Discount: $985.5 when student registers for this course E115 and Improving Public Works Construction Inspection Skills E116 .

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