Highway Maintenance

TMS offers an extensive range of training courses in the field of Road Safety and Traffic Management.  All courses offer a 'hands on' approach to training and are recognised for CPD by the IHE and CIHT

Highway Maintenance

Course Information:

This course will be taught as 4 separate modules of 2 days duration, adding up to a total of 8 days. At the end of each module an assignment will be set. This should be completed by the student and submitted by the start of the next module. There will be around 6 weeks between the modules, which allows students sufficient time to complete the assignment and hand it before the next module commences.  

Aims & Objectives:

This course will provide students with a comprehensive introduction to highway maintenance and will give students the confidence to do this type of work once back in the working environment. The course is valuable to students new to the subject matter or those with practical experience but lacking the academic background in the subject area. The qualification is a well respected demonstration of competence in this area of work. 

Topics Covered:

HM1:

• Maintenance Codes of Practice
• Designing for Maintenance
• Carriageway Assessment and Condition surveys
• Maintenance Rating Systems
• Maintenance Personnel

HM2:

• Flexible Roads: Faults and Causes
• Flexible Roads: Planning and Organisation of Surface Dressing
• Flexible Roads: The Process of Surface Dressing
• Flexible Roads: Treatments and Faults in Surface Dressing
• Flexible Roads: Resurfacing
• Flexible Roads: Recycling
• Flexible Roads: Patching and Re-instatement
• Flexible Roads: Reconstruction

HM3:

• Rigid Roads: Faults and Causes
• Rigid Roads: Inspections
• Rigid Roads: Surface Repairs
• Rigid Roads: Joint Repairs
• Rigid Roads: Structural Repairs
• Rigid Roads: Routine Maintenance
• Footways
• Defects and Repairs of Signs and Markings

HM4:

• Highway Structures: Components
• Highway Structures: Inspection
• Highway Structures: Routine Maintenance
• Highway Structures: Construction and Major Maintenance
• Cyclic Maintenance
• Emergency Works
• Winter Maintenance

Certification:

This course offers an NCFE Certificates of Achievement for students through completion of a series of assignments that will be assessed by TMS and City of Bath College. These courses can also contribute to the achievement of a Professional Diploma in Civil Engineering by further study of Highways and Transportation topics material from the TMS and City of Bath College training programme.

Students can attend the courses and not undertake the assignments if they wish and will receive a certificate of attendance (providing all the modules are attended).

A joint TMS / City of Bath College Certificate/Diploma will also be issued to students completing the course.

How much will it cost and what is included?

Fee for this course is £1,595 plus VAT. This is payable in advance of attending the course (not on completion). This will include a course manual, additional notes and lunch / refreshments on the days of the course. The course will be run at a training venue in Coventry.

Course Dates:

The following dates have been arranged for this course:

HM1 - 18th - 19th October 2011

HM2 - 6th - 7th December 2011

HM3 - 24th - 25th January 2012

HM4 - 27th - 28th March 2012 

Regional and In-house courses

TMS can also run this course on a regional and in-house basis. The courses can be run in-house for organisations or groups of organisations which can get together. This may be more cost effective for organisations where there are 6 or more students. 

Further Information

Please contact Gill Brooks at TMS or to book a place or download course booking form (pdf format).