EXPANDED CONSTRUCTABILITY REVIEWS
In an effort to reduce the costs and delays of change orders requested after design is completed and construction has begun, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has begun using expanded constructability reviews. These reviews ask a team of engineers from all facets of the transportation system, including maintenance, to evaluated how well the design will hold up to actual conditions. Among the elements the review examines are traffic handling, which involves staging materials, weather conditions and local geographic features. A resident engineer teams with the design engineer to provide analysis of the plans. Caltrans is also making reviews available to contractors before bidding for suggestions. They can view the plans on the Web and forward comments electronically.
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Supplemental Notes:
- January-February 2002
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Corporate Authors:
California Department of Transportation
1120 N Street
Sacramento, CA United States 95814 -
Authors:
- Berthelsen, G
- Publication Date: 2002-1
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Photos;
- Pagination: p. 42-45
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Serial:
- California Department of Transportation Journal
- Volume: 2
- Issue Number: 4
- Publisher: California Department of Transportation
- Serial URL: http://www.dot.ca.gov/journal.htm
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Contractors; Design engineering; Estimates; Multidisciplinary teams; Planning stages; Process control; Project management
- Uncontrolled Terms: Change orders; Constructability
- Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Design; Highways; Planning and Forecasting;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00930164
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
- Files: BTRIS, TRIS, STATEDOT
- Created Date: Aug 30 2002 12:00AM