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LOW VOLUME ROAD INFORMATION SHARING - As a tribute to the late Norman Major one of the main purposes of this site is to share information between practitioners. To quote Alan Ferry and Norman Major in the 1988 IPENZ award winning paper PUTTING SOME METAL ON THE ROAD: (IPENZ Transactions – Vol 14 1/CE, March 1987)
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About telling others and leaving tracks
“It has been the experience of both authors that most trend setters are too modest (“everyone knows we do that”) or too busy (“Yes, we have it in the files if anyone needs it”) or sometimes just not prepared to argue (“we know it works – why go to the trouble of starting arguments?”). With a few exceptions roading engineers in New Zealand have not been much good at leaving behind a clear record of the basis for the decisions on roading materials.
Frequently, well documented observations and conclusions have been lost or published in such a way that they have had little effect. We should recognise that what seems so very simple and obvious today may well be useful history in the future.”
That was many years ago and we are not doing a whole lot better today - and now we have the Internet but NO Ministry of Works leading the way!
It is our purpose to share all useful information. Click here to go to the information sharing web page. All we need is your input to share your information.
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