Preparing Infrastructure / Roadway Plans

In Preparing Infrastructure / Roadway Plans , you'll learn ...

• Setting up the Index Sheet in a manner that will avoid rework later in the project
• The benefits of obtaining early client buy-in of the content and format of plans
• Typical information provided on the General Notes Sheet
• How to execute a project so that the Summary of Quantities Sheet is done only one time

Overview

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Credit: 5 PDH

Length: 64 pages

This course covers the general content and purpose of each drawing in a typical set of infrastructure plans that could represent a roadway, drainage or utility improvement. The course describes the basic format of each drawing, the uses of the drawing by the various design teams and disciplines, and the expectations that a construction team would have for each sheet.

Completion of this course will provide the student with an understanding of the reasoning that supports the variety of drawings in a typical set of contract plans. This will provide the student with a basis for discussion with the team or project manager on each assignment. This in turn can reduce false starts, provide specific direction to the various disciplines involved and prepare questions for the client from a pro-active position. The result is intended to be a savings in labor spent on corrections, a savings in labor spent on re-design, and a reduction in construction change orders.

This course draws on the author's extensive experience with contract documents to provide valuable project execution tips that can save your project cost and schedule. Several low cost activities on the front end of a project are covered that will prevent costly last minute changes.

This course is a "cook-book" for setting up the content and format of deliverables on the front end of a project. Any engineer involved in preparing infrastructure / roadway plans will benefit from the lessons learned by the course author from a career that has spanned three decades and has seen hundreds of sets of contract documents.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Configure the index sheet to avoid rework later in a project.
• Explain the benefits of obtaining early client approval of plan content and format.
• Identify typical information provided on the general notes sheet.
• Explain how to execute a project so that the summary of quantities sheet needs to be prepared only once.
• Structure the schedule of quantities sheet to minimize discrepancies with individual discipline sheets.
• Describe typical information shown on the typical paving section sheet and ways to avoid time-consuming rework.
• Explain the steps used to develop alignment and ties sheets, including field-survey techniques and their design accuracies.
• Describe methods for establishing benchmarks.
• Explain how traffic maintenance, construction sequencing, detour plan, and construction access sheets can minimize impacts on local vehicular traffic and reduce project delays caused by construction-access issues.
• Identify typical information provided on profile, drainage, and utility relocation sheets.
• Explain how abrupt elevation changes at project boundaries shown on the grading sheet are used to mitigate potential impacts on areas adjacent to the construction site.
• Describe how sections are typically cut on the cross section sheet and how the information shown on this drawing has evolved.
• Apply methods for saving time and avoiding rework when creating the construction detail sheet.
• Explain how a construction project can cause sediment and erosion issues and how sediment and erosion controls are depicted in project plans.
• Identify how seasonal landscaping restrictions can jeopardize a project-completion schedule.
• Describe regulatory requirements that affect the placement of pavement markings and signing at the conclusion of a project.

Certificate of Completion

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 24 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.