The Public Works Authority ‘Ashghal’ held an intensive workshop on November 20 and 21, 2018 to discuss and present the latest practices for the asphalt pavement using recycled materials.
The workshop tackled the most important mechanisms and equipment used in asphalt milling and paving. The workshop was organised by Ashghal’s Quality & Safety Department and ANAS Company. A number of international equipment manufacturers were invited under the auspices of the Public Works Authority to train 150 technicians from Ashghal’s contractors.
The latest practical experiences of international companies were presented in the workshop, where the processes of asphalt milling and asphalt paving were reviewed in addition to demonstrating the asphalt rolling process.
Eng. Khalid Al-Emadi, Quality and Safety Department Manager at the Public Works Authority, said: “As part of Ashghal’s efforts to adopt the latest practices in asphalt road construction and pavement, a large and intensive workshop was organized in which the latest equipment used in road construction were demonstrated to Ashghal contractors, along with the best practices in this field, in order to benefit from the existing resources and reducing the cost of projects”.
Al-Emadi added that the workshop aimed to spread the culture of quality in the implementation of projects through the correct knowledge of paving mechanisms, which will reduce the cost of projects by millions of Qatari Riyals once implemented.
Ashghal also set conditions for project contractors in some areas to use certain percentages of recycled construction materials up to 15%, and continues to urge contractors to adopt this initiative in accordance with best practices and latest equipment and machineries.
Through the waste recycling initiative (such as asphalt waste, car tires rubber and iron slag), Ashghal seeks to use new economical and highly efficient construction mixes, in addition to changing the concept of road construction through reusing valuable resources and reduce the import rates of gravel and bitumen and reduce the cost of projects.
