WC 214: sealed road pavement rehabilitation

This page relates to the 2024-27 National Land Transport Programme.

This webpage is under review

An update to reflect the Government Policy Statement on land transport 2024 is under way. 

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

Qualifying activities comprise the replacement of, or restoration of strength to, sealed pavements where other forms of maintenance and renewal are no longer economic.

Work category 214 is available to the following activity classes:

• local road maintenance
• state highway maintenance.

Local road and state highway maintenance

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 us (NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) as investor) whether other potential activities not listed above might also be eligible for inclusion in this work category.

Exclusions

Work category 214 excludes:

• improvements – where it is prudent to carry out some improvements in conjunction with the rehabilitation, these may be included in the low-cost, low-risk programme and the associated improvements investment pathways and charged to the improvement activity class and work category if the total cost for approval is $2 million or less – improvements costing more than $2 million should be carried out under the appropriate improvement work category
  Work category 341: low-cost, low-risk improvements (webpage yet to come)

• pavement strengthening of unsealed roads – this is funded under work category 211.
  Work category 211: unsealed road metalling

Requirements for inclusion

To qualify for inclusion in this work category, the work must be the long-term, best-cost option, calculated in terms of present value (PV).

Approved organisations and NZTA (for its own activities) must undertake PV cost appraisals of individual projects and make copies of the evaluations available as requested by us. A simplified procedure is provided for pavement rehabilitation on the Monetised benefits and costs manual webpage– see SP1 Road renewals.

Monetised benefits and costs manual

Funding assistance rate

The usual funding assistance rate (FAR) is:

• the approved organisation's normal FAR
  Normal funding assistance rates

or

• the approved organisation’s special purpose roads FAR for the 2024–27 National Land Transport Programme (NLTP)
  Other funding assistance rates

or

• 100% of NZTA state highway costs.

Submitting activities for NLTP consideration and funding approval

Approved organisations and NZTA (for its own activities) submit these activities using the maintenance, operations and renewals template in Transport Investment Online (TIO).

Transport Investment Online(external link)

For guidance on using TIO, see the TIO learning and guidance page on our website.

Transport Investment Online (TIO) learning and guidance

Further information

For more details on over-width carriageways, see our Application of Network Documents Policy.

Application of Network Documents Policy