WC 214: Sealed road pavement rehabilitation

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This page relates to the 2018-21 National Land Transport Programme.

Introduction

Work category 214 provides for the replacement of, or restoration of strength to, sealed pavements where other forms of maintenance and renewal are no longer economic.

Qualifying activities

Examples of qualifying activities
Examples of qualifying activities include, but may not be limited to:
- granular overlays
- rip and relay
- pavement stabilisation
- asphaltic overlays or grader-laid asphaltic material
- pavement replacement (including the use of recycled materials)
- structural asphaltic concrete rehabilitation.
You can discuss with Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency whether other potential activities not listed above might also be eligible for inclusion in this work category.
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Exclusions
Work category 214 excludes:
- improvements – where it is prudent to carry out some improvements in conjunction with the rehabilitation, this may be programmed under work category 341: Low cost, low risk roading improvements if the total cost for approval is $1,000,00 or less. Improvements costing more than $1,000,000 should be carried out under the appropriate improvement work category.
- pavement strengthening of unsealed roads – this is funded under work category 211: Unsealed road metalling.
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Conditions for inclusion

To qualify for inclusion in this work category, the work must be the long-term least-cost option for the approved organisation and Waka Kotahi (state highways), calculated in terms of present value (PV).

Approved organisations and Waka Kotahi (state highways) must undertake benefit and cost appraisals of individual projects and make copies of the evaluations available as requested by Waka Kotahi. A simplified procedure is provided for pavement rehabilitation in the Monetised benefits and costs manual(external link) (from August 2020) and the Economic evaluation manual (superseded August 2020) – see SP1.

Funding assistance rate

The usual funding assistance rate is:

the approved organisation's normal FAR, or
the approved organisation's special purpose roads maintenance FAR, or
100% of Waka Kotahi state highway costs.

Applying for funding approval

Applications for funding approval should be made through the maintenance module in Transport Investment Online(external link).

Further information

For more detailed information about over-width carriageways, see:

Application of network documents.

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