Webinar: Update to Guide to Road Design Part 1

The purpose of the update to Guide to Road Design Part 1: Objectives of Road Design is to outline a proposed recommendation of amendments to the design domain and design exception process sections. The need for updating these sections is consistent with increasing industry challenges in designing and constructing road infrastructure in constrained environments or other various contexts, which make it impractical or impossible to adopt design solutions traditionally deemed as acceptable or normal practice.

Across Australia and New Zealand, many jurisdictions have their own guidelines in place to assist designers and practitioners in developing context sensitive design solutions, which may require the introduction of elements which depart from the design standards. These guidelines include processes for analysing risk and identifying risk mitigation strategies and are generally similar between jurisdictions.

In developing a proposed guideline for inclusion into Part 1, a systematic methodology was developed, planned and implemented which consisted of a literature review and stakeholder engagement. Join us for a webinar on the updates to Part 1, presented by Belinda Gibbons and Albert Wong.

Albert Wong is Principal Design Engineer Regional Support at MRWA. He is the MRWA rep in Austroads Road Design Task Force and the project manager for SRD6320.

Belinda Gibbons has built a strong foundation of skills in the road infrastructure space over 20 years which has led her to a successful career managing the planning and design of road projects. Belinda started her career designing roads using MX and AutoCAD which has given her an excellent technical grounding and appreciation of the geometric task in the design process. She has established an excellent understanding of the various standards and guidelines (particularly the Austroads Guide to Road Design series) associated with road and civil infrastructure geometry design from local, state and national sources and can use them expertly on a broad range and scale of project types. Additionally, she is Chartered through Engineers Australia, is recognised as an EA Fellow and is a qualified practicing Road Safety Auditor and Safe Systems Assessor.

There will be question and answer opportunities during the session. No charge but registration is essential. Can’t make the live session? Register and we’ll send you a link to the recording.