Overview
This four-hour course focuses on the Preparation of Contract Documents for Highway and Traffic Engineers. It is extremely important for highway and traffic engineers to be able to adequately inform contractors regarding what is to be left as is, and what is to be constructed, removed, or replaced. The course focuses on the items to be placed on the contract plans and specifications that are required in order to build and construct an intersection, with or without traffic signals. The proper presentation of the contract plans and specifications facilitates bidding and the time required for construction.
Participants of this course will learn to avoid a number of situations where information has not been accurately placed on the plans, which could be the basis of a lawsuit.
At the conclusion of this course the student will:
- Be able to better prepare accurate contract plans and specifications
- Understand the need to show all existing above ground and below ground utilities
- Better understand the needs of the contractor in order to properly complete his work according to the contract plans and specifications
- Have greater knowledge of how existing traffic control features affect the construction of the project
- Be better able to present standard information on each plan sheet
- Learn where to obtain applicable standards
The student must take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of twenty questions at the end of the course to obtain PDH credits.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Initial Site Investigation
- Survey Area; Plan Review; Condition Diagram; Traffic Control Devices Inventory; and Aerial Photos
- Roadway Geometrics
- Land Use; Parking Restrictions; Existing Signs; Existing Speed Limits; Existing Pavement Markings; Existing Utilities; Existing Traffic Signal Equipment; Agency Design Standards; Field Investigation
- Preparation of Contract Documents
- Title Sheet; Table of Contents Sheet(s); General and Specific Notes Sheet(s); Summary of Quantities Sheet(s); Signal Design Sheets; Standard Detail Sheets; and Engineer’s Estimate
- Standard Information of Each Sheet
- Agency authorizing the project; Project Number; Location of signal installation; Title on each Sheet; Number of sheets in the Plan Set; Scale of Drawing; Checker Identification; Date of Original, Progress Print and subsequent revisions; North Arrow; Existing and Proposed Items and Conditions
- Quality of Plans
- Items to be placed on the Drawings
- Existing and Proposed Items; Right-Of-Way Property and Building Lines; Legends and Tables; Stationing; Specifications
- Traffic Signal Items
- Existing and Proposed Traffic Signal Items; Traffic Signal Easements; Phasing and Sequence Diagrams; Signal Configuration Diagram; Junction Boxes; Conduit Wiring; Poles Designs; Vehicle and Pedestrian Detection
- Applicable Standards
- State DOT’s; MUTCD; AASHTO, ADA; NEMA; ISMA; etc.
Course
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Preparation of Contract Documents for Highway and Traffic Engineers
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