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Use of New Materials & Technique

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Section 3300 Use of New Materials & Technique

3300 General

Number of new materials in the various fields of Highway Sector are emerging in the market.The characteristic attributes of all these materials which are by and large additive in nature

are mostly based on laboratory test results and / or are based on application in someother countries. Some of these materials are not provided / covered under InternationalSpecifications also. The Promoters/Manufacturers of these materials however, haveclaimed substantial quality improvement of existing materials in Indian conditions, providedwe have them in terms of prescribed doses.

Ministry has encouraged utilization of such emerging road construction materials and issuedguidelines vide Ministrys circular No RW/NH-35068/1/1996-S&R dated 1-3-1999. TheIndian Roads Congress has through its Committee has accredited new materials as given

in the Appendix based on the details, including test results submitted by the Manufacturer/ Promoters of such materials. These accreditations are with the stipulations of a field trialusing such materials with the idea that necessary feed back from use of these materialsshall help the IRC and Ministry to frame process Specifications typically to meet Indianconditions. The accreditation of materials shall continue in future also and will be publishedin the monthly journal of IRC and shall get added to the Appendix 3300/1.

The manual for highway construction for two/ four laning through public-private partnershippublished by IRC also provides freedom to the concessionaires to use the new materials

at their own risk and cost. If the Specification directs for the use of these materials in anextensive manner to establish their efficacy and including cost effectiveness. Thesematerials can subsequently added to the Specifications after their efficacy and costeffectiveness are established under Indian conditions.

The user Agencies may suitably make use of the new materials accredited by IRC. Use ofonly such materials is recommended which are recognized in the Specifications of Roads

/Highways of the Country of origin and /or manufacture of such new materials. It isrecommended that approval of the Technical Up-gradation Committee of the Ministry of

Road Transport & Highways may be obtained for use of such materials. Technical Up-gradation Committee of the Ministry shall also resolve any doubts in this regard.