Contents

  • Cover
  • Front matter
  • Preface
  • Scope, purpose and use
  • 1. Terminology, economic analysis, risk management
    • 1.1 Terminology
    • 1.2 Economic analysis
    • 1.3 Understanding risk
  • 2. Regulations, consents and approvals
    • 2.1 National Environmental Standards for Plantation Forestry (NES-PF)
    • 2.2 Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga
    • 2.3 The Health and Safety at Work Act
    • 2.4 NZ Transport Agency approval for access onto state highways
    • 2.5 District council approval for access onto council roads
  • 3. Planning for roads
    • 3.1 Road classes
    • 3.2 Arterial roads
    • 3.3 Secondary roads
    • 3.4 Spur roads
    • 3.5 Establishment tracks
    • 3.6 Spatial information
    • 3.7 Initial field work
    • 3.8 Manual design method: Stepping out a roadline on a topo
    • 3.9 Running a grade line in the field
    • 3.10 Full road design
    • 3.11 Working with road survey data
    • 3.12 Geometric road design
    • 3.13 Curve widening
    • 3.14 Horizontal alignment
    • 3.15 Vertical alignment
    • 3.16 Calculating the safe stopping distance
    • 3.17 Setting out the roadline
  • 4. Planning for landings
    • 4.1 Common landing layouts
    • 4.2 Landing planning considerations
  • 5. Road and landing construction
    • 5.1 Soil and rock properties
    • 5.2 Managing adverse environmental effects
    • 5.3 Marking clearing widths
    • 5.4 Roadline salvage
    • 5.5 Daylighting
    • 5.6 Road formation
    • 5.7 Drainage control during earthwork construction
    • 5.8 Earthwork machinery
    • 5.9 Estimating machinery production
    • 5.10 Stabilising cut and fill slopes during construction
  • 6. Pavement design, subgrade preparation, pavement construction
    • 6.1 Traffic loading
    • 6.2 Evaluating subgrade properties
    • 6.3 Determining pavement depth
    • 6.4 Pavement material properties
    • 6.5 Compaction of subgrade and pavement
    • 6.6 Compaction equipment
    • 6.7 Pavement construction
    • 6.8 Weak subgrades
    • 6.9 Chemical stabilisation of pavement or subgrade
  • 7. Erosion, sediment and slash control structures
    • 7.1 Ditches
    • 7.2 Cut-outs
    • 7.3 Berms
    • 7.4 Drainage culverts
    • 7.5 Flumes
    • 7.6 Sediment traps and soak holes
    • 7.7 Silt fences
    • 7.8 Sediment retention ponds
    • 7.9 Debris traps
  • 8. River crossings
    • 8.1 Fish passage
    • 8.2 Selecting the location and crossing type
    • 8.3 Fords
    • 8.4 Temporary river crossings
    • 8.5 Single culvert river crossings
    • 8.6 Battery culvert river crossings
    • 8.7 Drift deck river crossings
    • 8.8 Single span bridge river crossings
    • 8.9 Prediction of flood flows, and sizing culverts
  • 9. Road maintenance, repairs and upgrades
    • 9.1 Maintenance programme
    • 9.2 Economic evaluation of road maintenance projects
    • 9.3 Managing maintenance requirements
    • 9.4 Commonly used maintenance machinery
    • 9.5 Road surface maintenance
    • 9.6 Road foundation maintenance
    • 9.7 Landing rehabilitation and decommissioning
    • 9.8 Roadside vegetation maintenance
    • 9.9 Erosion and sediment control structure maintenance
    • 9.10 River crossing maintenance
  • Forest road engineering terminology
  • References
  • Websites, resources, databases

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Preface

Peter WeirThe NZ Forest Owners Association (FOA) is strongly committed to assisting its members to achieve the highest standards of plantation forestry practice. This commitment is underpinned by the provision of quality publications such as the New Zealand Forest Road Engineering Manual. First published in 1999 by the former Logging Industry Research Association (LIRA), it was later revised in 2012. This 2020 edition is a substantial review of that revision.

The Manual is a well-used reference for forest roading supervisors, harvest planners, forest roading engineers, and forest managers and owners. However, an industry survey in 2018 identified that some of the content needed to be updated and improved.

In this 2020 edition, the Manual introduces new materials and methods, and updated construction techniques. Three chapters have been rewritten: Consents and Approvals (Chapter 2), Erosion, Sediment and Slash Control Structures (Chapter 7) and River Crossings (Chapter 8). Planning for landings (Chapter 4) is a new chapter, and complements the revised Planning for Roads (Chapter 3).

Much of the substantive change is due to the National Environmental Standards for Plantation Forestry (NES-PF) becoming law in 2018. It provides a nationally consistent set of regulations to manage the environmental effects of plantation forestry activities, and creates rules around many of the forest engineering activities in this Manual.

The FOA encourages those who use this Manual to do so in conjunction with other FOA publications. These include the companion NZ Forest Road Engineering Manual Operators Guide, and the recently released suite of FOA Forest Practice Guides. In doing so, roading infrastructure will be fit for purpose and meet the industry’s high environmental standards.

The FOA thanks all those involved in the revision and update of this Manual.

Peter Weir
President
NZ Forest Owners Association

The New Zealand Forest Road Engineering Manual is published by the NZ Forest Owners Association and is supported by the Forest Growers Levy Trust and the NZ Farm Forestry Association

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