A RATIONAL METHOD FOR RELATING AS-BUILT QUALITY TO PAVEMENT PERFORMANCE AND VALUE

Highway construction specifications routinely use adjusted-payment provisions to award payment in proportion to the level of quality received. Work that meets the level of quality defined as acceptable is eligible for 100% payment, whereas work that fails to meet the desired quality level but that is not sufficiently deficient to warrant removal and replacement typically receives some degree of pay reduction. More recently, many agencies have begun to offer monetary incentives in the form of bonus provisions for work that substantially exceeds the desired level of quality. Although the pay-adjustment approach to highway quality assurance is now widely used, there is not yet a consistency of practice regarding the magnitude of pay adjustment judged appropriate for varying levels of as-built quality. To achieve consistency and make this approach more effective and defensible, there is need for a method to relate as-built quality to expected performance, which can then be related to value by engineering-economics procedures. The extension and refinement of earlier work are described here and an example structured around one of the performance relationships in the AASHTO "Guide for Design of Pavement Structures" is provided. This methodology suggests that many pay schedules currently in use may not fully recoup the real costs incurred by highway agencies as a result of defective work.

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  • https://doi.org/10.3141/1632-04
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  • This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1632, Construction Quality and Management.
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  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Weed, R M
• Publication Date: 1998

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 32-39
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 1632
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Adjustment factors; Construction; Cost recovery; Incentives; Pavement performance; Payment; Present value; Quality assurance; Quality control; Road construction; Specifications
• Uncontrolled Terms: Construction specifications; Quality; Values
• Old TRIS Terms: Adjustments
• Subject Areas: Construction; Finance; Highways; I52: Construction of Pavements and Surfacings;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00756126
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309065046
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Nov 6 1998 12:00AM