Best Practice

With climate change expected to have increasing impact on weather patterns, it is becoming difficult to assess the general vulnerable of the Western Australian state road network to extreme weather events. This project will build…

Western Australian roads require rehabilitation to ensure that road users have safe well maintained roads to use. Austroads recently released a guide advising on evaluating and treating roads. WARRIP is taking to national practices, consulting…

ARRB, Main Roads Western Australia, WALGA, Curtin University and the University of WA developed the concept for a Western Australian Pavement Asset Research Centre (WAPARC). The purpose of the centre was two-fold.  The first objective…

Adequate compaction at every stage of construction ensures we achieve stronger roads and the layers themselves will able to withstand the destructive erosive forces of water. Each type of material and each layer of construction…

As part of Main Roads efforts for continuous improvement, industry professionals have reviewed the current Main Roads practices for contracting work. In response to issues raised, WARRIP launched an investigation to determine what could be…