Life-Cycle of Pavements
Pavements Life-Cycle
Life-Cycle of Pavements - Like most things in existence, pavements have a limited period of useable life starting from the time when the new pavements were placed to a time where all pavement maintenance and rehabilitation options have been exhausted with no serviceable life remaining.
Eventually all pavements begin showing signs of distress and fail.
Life-Cycle Performance
The Ability for a pavement to reach its maximum serviceable life based on the design. A pavements performance is influenced by the decisions that are made on the factors that contribute to the premature failure or the prolonged life of your pavements.
Life-Cycle Costs
The Combined Expenses needed to maintain your pavements during its life-cycle or useable service life. The longer your pavements survive, the greater the performance and reduction to your Life-Cycle Costs however; an early breakdown of your pavements can cost thousands in additional repairs and put a heavy drain on your capital reserve accounts with a potential impact to your capital improvements funds.
Contributing Factors
Contributing Factors to a pavements service life and ability to achieve maximum performance for the duration of its Life-Cycle begins with the environment, original pavement design and construction techniques followed by the decisions made for maintenance and pavement management.