ULTRA THIN REINFORCED CONCRETE PAVEMENTS (UTRCP) - INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY WHICH OFFERS COST AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC BENEFITS FOR INFRASTRUCTURE PROVISION

2010 
Ultra Thin Reinforced Concrete Pavements (UTRCP) have successfully been used in a number of roads in the country to provide permanent durable surfacing for bus routes and residential streets. When comparing a new and innovative pavement type, such as this, with established labour intensive pavement choices, factors other than just the initial construction cost should be considered. Maintenance cost, pavement design life, and thus life cycle costs, as well as functional characteristics should be considered. With the critical social and economic challenges that South Africa faces, in terms of unemployment and education, choices of pavement types are also affected by the potential for job creation and development of our people. The use of UTCRP thus has a number of advantages, i.e. increase of labour content, suitable for emerging/small contractors, skills acquired (e.g. concreting can be applied in other sectors), lower whole life cycle cost for comparable designs, existing sub grade and alignment can be used, ideal for upgrading existing deteriorated roads by overlaying and environmental benefits by using local materials.
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