CONSTRUCTIBILITY REVIEW PROCESS FOR TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES

This report describes the development of a process for assessing and improving highway-construction-project contract documents to ensure rational bids and to minimize problems during construction. The contents of this report are, therefore, of immediate interest not only to highway planners, facility designers, and construction personnel, but also to state and local government management and policy makers, consulting engineering firms, and highway construction contractors, all of whom can play a role in the process. The report's conclusions are based on experience in other fields of construction and on case studies of highway construction projects. Those case studies show that the constructibility review process can result in a benefit to cost ratio of 25 to 1.