RCSS Capabilities

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Research Consultancy & Specialised Surveys


Scott Wilson

• Scott Wilson Group plc is a global integrated design and engineering consultancy for the built and natural environments. With its headquarters in the UK, the Group has a worldwide network of 80 offices and over 6,000 employees.


Introductions

Research Consultancy & Specialised Surveys (RCSS)

Robert Armitage

Business Unit Director, Nottingham

Richard Elliott

Technical Director, Nottingham

Pavement & Materials Consultancy

Pavement Consultancy

Bachar Hakim

Associate, Nottingham

Pavement Consultancy

Steve Finnie

Commercial Associate, Nottingham

Highway Operations

John Dobrzycki

Commercial Director, Nottingham

Highway Operations

Jamie Denton


Francis Chan

Technical Director, Nottingham

Business Systems

Daru Widyatmoko


Materials Consultancy


Research Consultancy & Specialised Surveys (RCSS) Offer

A complete service• Extensive field experience• Specialised analysis, interpretation and reporting• 180 staff, several with PhD’s or MSc’s

Catalyst for Technology Transfer• Links with universities and research institutions• Introduce new test methods (FWD, NAT, Springbox)

Value Engineering• Innovative and cost-effective solutions• Project assessment in terms of full life cycle


Pavement Engineering

• Highways• Airfields• Ports• Industrial• Unbound


Pavement Capabilities

• Pavement design• Pavement evaluation• Performance specification and testing• Failure investigation• Design standards • Practical research• Whole life model / pavement management

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Complete Life Cycle of Pavements

Research

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Pavement Design

Standard Designs• Airfields: PSA/BAA/FAA• Highways: DMRB7, AASHTO, RN31• Ports: BPDM - Interpave• Industrials: Britpave, CS34, CS66

Mechanistic/Analytical Design• Design from first principles• In house programs• Bond, reflection cracking, reinforced asphalt

pavement, unbound rut, asphalt viscous analysis (PDP)


Pavement Evaluation

• Non destructive testing• Laboratory assessment• Mechanistic analysis• Traffic damage• Strengthening design


Performance Specifications


Pavement Failure Investigation

• A55 DBFO pavement failure • Axim Tarkaw Road, Ghana• A1 Tranent to Haddington• A74/M6 DBFO Pavement de-bonding• Tilbury Dock - Berths 41-43• Howdendyke Internal Concrete Pavement• Oxford Cornmarket Block Pavement • Several other DBFO projects


Contribution to Design Standards

• Author of DMRB7: HD24 (traffic), HD25 (foundation), HD26 (design)

• Independent review of new AASHTO guide• Concrete Society Report 66• Interpave block paving• Britpave airfield guidance notes


Practical Research Projects

• Initial and whole life cost of paving materials (Interpave)

• Foamix and SUDS design (Tarmac)

• Sulphur Extended Asphalt Modifier – SEAM (Shell Canada)

• Pavement design using high strength concrete for airfield pavement (Elkem)


Whole Life Cycle Models / Pavement Management Systems (PMS)

• Whole life cycle model including 25-30 years maintenance profile for highway DBFO/PFI projects

• Short term maintenance management for Local Authority (LA) roads using SCANNER and visual condition data

• Airports and Ports PMS (e.g. Micro Paver)


Whole Life Cycle Models

• M25 DBFO• Birmingham PFI• Carlisle Northern Development Route• Portsmouth PFI• A19 DBFO• Liverpool airport• Eurotunel UK Terminal • Lender Technical Advisors

• A65 France, A1 and A8 Germany, SH121 Texas, Maravatio Mexico, I-595 PFI Florida, Port of Mann Canada, Turkish motorway


FWD Capability

Currently Operate 2 FWDs, 2 HWDs & 1 LWD


Coring Capability

Currently operate 3 Excaliber rigs & 1 portable rig.


Coring Capability

• Coring diameters 50 - 450mm• Cored trial pits• Cored rut profiles


Coring of Structures


• Performed down core holes to give CBR profile with depth.

• Identifies unbound layer changes

DCP Testing


Unbound Materials Sampling (UMS)

• Can be performed down core


• Can be performed down large diameter core holes or more conventionally on the surface.

LWD Testing


• Operate a GSSI Sir 20 and 3 No. Pulse Ekko Kits

• Can be used on applications other than roads

Radar


Radar Plot


• Single or multiple cameras

• Provide source of reference

• Can be used for inventory but with limitations

Video Surveys


Highway Inventory and Asset Management

• Signs and Street Furniture

• Retaining Walls

• Street Lighting and Electrical Items

• Can be used for both Inventory collection and Detailed Inspections i.e. CAT 2 Defects


Highway Inventory and Asset Management

• Lighting columns and signs mapping• Control Pillar


Retaining Wall Location Map and Database


Asset Management Projects

• Barnsley MBC - Retaining Walls Survey

• Sheffield City Council - Footway Surveys

• West Midlands LA’s - UKPMS DVI

• Manchester City Council - HAMP

• Nottingham City Council - GIS Digitisation

• LB Richmond-upon-Thames – UKPMS and Asset Management

• 3 Counties Alliance - Various


Materials Engineering

• Materials testing to supplement pavement assessment and contract compliance

• Mixture design, optimisation and modification• End product specification• Research and development• British Board of Agrément (BBA) HAPAS

Scheme Certification SG3 & SG4• Failure investigations• Impartial materials advice to help solve

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Laboratory Testing

• Unbound, hydraulic bound, asphalt bound materials, specialist binders

• Sample manufacturing

• Compliance testing [A43 Silverstone Bypass]

• Material assessment for pavement evaluation [Area 7, A1(M)]

• Superpave compliance test [Doha International Airport, Tanzania Highway]

• Performance based design of recycled and secondary materials


Innovation and Research

• New Material Design & Technical Specification [Jiangyin Bridge]

• Monitoring the introduction of EME2 on UK roads [HA]

• Promoting asphalt recycling [Far East, UK]

• Innovative approach [Springbox Test]


Innovation and Research

• Use of recycled and secondary material [hydraulic bound, zinc slag, rubber, plastic, quarry fines]

• Life Cycle Assessment, from quarrying, production, disposal

• Reclaimed steel fibres post consumer tyre in roller compacted concrete

EU funded Ecolanes project – ALT Lira, Univ Iasi, Romania


Carbon Modelling

• RCSS played an integral part in the design of the International Road Federation Greenhouse Gas Calculator “CHANGER”

• Consultancy advice to International Finance Corporation with regards to Climate Change and carbon modelling

• Co-author of “Climate Change and Sustainable Transport” for CIHT


Materials Resource Efficiency

• Scott Wilson wrote the leading edge guidance which links demolition to new-build

• The recommended KPIs use the Recycled Content Toolkit and data gathered for Site Waste Management Plans


Utility Industry Agreements

• Scott Wilson has written and is promoting a suite of voluntary agreements for the utilities sector

• These voluntary agreements match the aspirations of the Government’s Strategy for Sustainable Construction


Spatial Solutions


Some of our Clients


Key Transactions

Terms not disclosed

2006

INFRASTRUCTURE FUND

Bid for London City Airport

EUR 15bn 2006

Lyon-Turin High Speed Link and Tunnel

2006

‘A’ Roads PPPGermany

2006

Mumbai Airport

Terms not disclosed

2006

INFRASTRUCTURE FUND

Bid for Cargo Airport, Germany

Terms not disclosed

2006

INFRASTRUCTURE FUND

Bid for International Toll Road Aquisition

EUR 1.1bn 2005

Perpignan-Figueras High Speed Rail Line

£122m 2005

C Vehicle Capability PFI

EUR 750m 2004

HungarianM5 Motorway

EUR 3.5bn 2004

Madrid Calle 30 PPP

£1.9bn 2002

London Underground

EUR 1.2bn 2002

Dutch High Speed Rail Link

£100m 2005

Tyseley Energy from Waste Plant

Gdansk Container PortPoland

2005

EUR 1bn 2004

Thessaloniki Submerged Tunnel


Research Consultancy and Specialised Surveys

12 Regan Way, Chetwynd Business Park, Chilwell, Nottingham, NG9 6RZ, UK

Tel: 0115 907 7000

Fax: 0115 907 7001

RCSS Capabilities

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