The Road Maintenance Forum is a joint initiative by CESA, CSIR, IMESA, SAT, SAFCEC, SANRAL and Sabita and is aimed at all persons involved in the road maintenance sector. The timing of these events is aligned to International Road Maintenance Day (1st Thursday of April) and Transport Month (October) and it aims to address the relevant issues impacting road maintenance operations.
The aim of these seminars/webinars is to:
- Enable a platform for the exchange of information
- Provide an opportunity to share best practice
- Find solutions to challenges that are common to those operating in the road maintenance
- Facilitate contact between parties that are active in this space
- Identify possible research and development needs
 1st Road Maintenance Forum held 7 April 2022
- An Overview and in respect of Reclaimed Asphalt
- Trench Reinstatements
- Failure Reporting
- A Contractors Perspective
- Base Layer Material for Patching
2nd Road Maintenance Forum held 5 October 2022
- Background and Objectives of RMF
- RMF Reflections : Policies before Roads
- Preventative Maintenance Strategies in CoCT
- Fit for Purpose Approach to Road Maintenance
- Sabita training materials
- Service Provider Training for Road Maintenance
- Commercial Laboratory Support to Road Maintenance Industry
- Sabita Manual 12
3rd Road Maintenance Forum held 13 April 2023
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- Background and Objectives of the RMFÂ
- JRA Pothole Patrol InitiativeÂ
- Road maintenance and the environmental impact
- Proforma Maintenance Contracts
- Fixing Potholes – through CSI
MaterialsÂ
Training
- Challenges experienced with road maintenance training
- Road Maintenance in a tertiary curriculum
- RRM Qualification and the QCTO
Quality TestingÂ
- Status of the public sector laboratories
- Status of the laboratories housed at Eng4.0 with special reference to SANRAL Nat Reference Lab
- Status of the CSIR Research Lab
ResolutionsÂ