Join Your Industry Partners for a Forum focused on transforming your approach to rural and regional road management and maximising maintenance outcomes.

AustStab and AfPA are proud to co-host a two-day forum focused on improving maintenance and rehabilitation strategies for local and regional roads. This essential event is designed for professionals seeking innovative, sustainable, and evidence-based solutions to address the complex challenges of road infrastructure while creating resilient networks.

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Forum Details:

• Lismore: 14 May – 15 May 2025 – Click Here to Register
• Dubbo: 20 May – 21 May 2025 – Click Here to Register

Why Attend?

This forum is the premier event for state and local government professionals, contractors, and consultants who are addressing the unique demands of rural and regional road networks. It provides a collaborative platform to share best practices, sustainability-focused strategies, and actionable insights from road asset owners, as well as private sector leaders. Attendees will discover innovative approaches to maintaining and improving the critical roadways that connect rural communities to urban centres.

Key Focus Areas:

Building Resilience Through Smarter Maintenance

•  Sustainable Maintenance Practices: Learn how circular economy principles and preventative maintenance can reduce costs and improve long-term outcomes.
• Disaster Preparedness in Action: Understand how floods, bushfires, and other events impact roads—and what can be done to build back stronger.
• Weathering the Storm: Practical approaches to designing and maintaining pavements that can handle extreme weather and climate variability.

Tackling Everyday Maintenance Challenges

• On-the-Ground Road Network Issues: Confront aging infrastructure, limited budgets, and challenges across urban and remote networks.
• Making Maintenance More Efficient: Explore tips and tools for better planning, job scheduling, and material usage to maximise resources.
• Smart Repairs with AI & Data: Use real-time data and predictive tools to find and fix issues faster.
• Stopping Pavement Failures Before They Start: Identify common defects and get ahead of deterioration with proven prevention strategies.

Sustainable & Cost-Effective Repair Techniques

• Recycling What’s Already There: Dive into in-situ testing, stabilisation, and reuse of existing materials to cut waste and costs.
• Unsealed Roads, Smarter Maintenance: Gain practical know-how for managing gravel and dirt roads to keep them safe and serviceable.
• Fixing Potholes That Last: Explore sustainable repair methods that go beyond short-term patch-ups.
• Keeping Pavements Going Longer: Discover how treatments like micro-surfacing and surface seals preserve road condition and delay major works.

Innovation That Works on the Ground

• Better Bitumen: Find out how new bitumen emulsion technologies are delivering greener, more flexible road solutions.
• Low-Carbon Asphalt Options: Learn how new mixes are helping reduce emissions without compromising performance.
• Rubber Hits the Road: See how crumb rubber spray seal is turning old tyres into longer-lasting, more resilient pavements.

A comprehensive event program will be available soon on our website.

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Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn and lead the way in innovative road maintenance.