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Aug 10, 2023
Optimizing Plans and Specifications on Your Conveyance Projects
Publication: Pipelines 2023
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Water conveyance design projects that are issued for contractor bids require carefully prepared plans and specifications. This paper presents several examples of items that frequently have been noted (and corrected) during recent quality control (QC) reviews and construction site visits. Topics include best practices for developing specifications, proper use of the NTS (not to scale) callouts, properly showing steel fittings, checking (and actually reading) the notes on drawings, proper and improper procedures to incorporate combined bends, the use of exaggerated horizontal and vertical scales, the importance of complete calculations, and the value of visits to the construction site by the design team. Several examples and suggested actions related to these items and others are included in the paper.
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Pipelines 2023
Pages: 322 - 331
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Published online: Aug 10, 2023
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Bids
- Business management
- Construction (by type)
- Construction engineering
- Construction management
- Construction sites
- Contracts and subcontracts
- Design (by type)
- Disaster risk management
- Engineering fundamentals
- Hydraulic design
- Management methods
- Practice and Profession
- Project management
- Quality control
- Risk management
- Steel construction
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1Jacobs Solutions. Email: [email protected]
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