Good Roads General Registration Form | 2025 Good Roads Conference Registration Form
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12:00 am - 11:50 pm
2025 Bridge and Structure Inspection TM45 - ONLINE
Course Completion Deadline
This is a Semester 1 course, it must be completed by April 30th, 2025. Failure to complete the course by this date will result in the loss of all course progress and may be subject to additional re-registration fees.
Course Schedule
This is a self-paced online course. Participants will work through each module individually at their own speed. You will have access to the course 24 hours a day 7 days a week so you can learn when and where you want.
The course, activities, and tests take approx. 30 hrs to complete. You will have access to the course until the end of April.
Lesson content is presented as text and videos. There are also interactive activities. There is no interaction with a live instructor. You can contact the instructors by email if you have any questions.
Particpants will receive an enrollment email within 48 hrs of registering. Please check your junk mail if you do not see it. If this is your first online course with good roads, you will also get a new user email. Please use the link in the new user email to set your password.
Note: Online courses take place on our education website not our main website. The websites do not share the same usernames and passwords.
Course Description
Using the concepts, procedures, and methods identified in the Ontario Structure Inspection Manual (OSIM) you will:
• Identify the type and severity of material defects,
• Assess and rate the condition of a variety of bridge elements, and
• Report your findings using the OSIM forms.
Course Content
• Types of Bridges
• Bridge Elements
• Materials focusing on concrete, steel, and asphalt.
• Material defects
• Procedures for conducting and documenting a detailed visual inspection using OSIM, including identification of material defects, material condition, defect severity levels, and performance deficiencies.
• Inspection Safety
Who Should Attend?
Government employees, consultants, and contractors involved in the detailed visual inspections of bridges, or individuals who need to gain an understanding of OSIM reports.
Recommendations
A basic understanding of bridge types and bridge elements.
Evaluation Process
Pre-course evaluation, case studies, activities, and open-book knowledge evaluation.
Tony Angelo is the Manager of Structures at 407ETR Concession Company Ltd. He has over 21 years of experience in the functional planning and structural design, inspection and rehabilitation of a variety of transportation structures, including highway structures, vehicular and railway grade separations, multi-span bridges over navigable waterways and lesser scale conventional water crossings.
At 407ETR Concession Company Ltd, Tony is directly responsibility for the inspection, maintenance, prioritization, budgeting, repair, rehabilitation, and construction administration of all structures within the Highway 407ETR corridor. He is registered as a Professional Engineer in Ontario.
Tony has completed structural inspections, evaluations, surveys, testing, and investigations on a wide variety of structures across most of Ontario for private and public organizations. Tony has extensive experience in the detailed design of bridges and culverts including an immense assortment of precast concrete structures, cast in place concrete structures and structural steel structures.
Dennis Baxter is Senior Manager, Bridges for GHD Limited in Whitby, Ontario. He is a professional engineer with over 33 years of experience specializing in transportation structure design, bridge rehabilitation and inspection, asset management, structural planning and construction services. He has managed a wide variety of bridge design and rehabilitation assignments, including design of bridge structures over railways, navigable and non-navigable waterways, roadways and pedestrian thoroughfares, detailed structural inspections, detailed condition surveys, structural steel fatigue inspections, underwater inspections, timber inspection, load assessments, and emergency services.
Dennis’ experience includes major assignments in the areas of bridge inspection, rehabilitation and replacement. He has also been involved in construction administration and liaison.
David Gagné is the Senior Manager of Bridge Inspections with GHD’s Transportation Department with 25 years of experience. He has been involved in MBADES inspections of over 5000 bridge and culvert structures and has supervised over 500 deck condition surveys.
David has been involved in over 3000 Biennial Inspections of bridge, culvert, and overhead sign support structures for various MTO regions, municipal clients and on Highway 407 ETR. David is an IHSA working at heights instructor. David has published a paper on the Logistics of Inspecting the Prince Edward Viaduct – Don River Section.
Location
Online
Time
January 6, 2025 - Apr 3012:00 am - 11:50 pm
